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From: casseres@apple.com (David Casseres)
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Subject: Re: Page Rectangles (Reply part two)
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Date: 9 Oct 90 22:24:44 GMT
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In article <1990Oct9.035859.10254@agate.berkeley.edu> 
lippin@wish-bone.berkeley.edu (The Apathist) writes:

> How about a PrGeneral verb which gives the printer driver a slap on
> the wrist and instructs it to tell the truth?

I'm not sure what you mean by "the truth."  The page rectangle that the 
driver returns is in fact the bounding rectangle for the area that will be 
printed on.  You want some other rectangle?  What should it be?

> Most programs could
> turn this on without reformatting any documents, because they format
> them to the user's chosen margins, not the printer's (and the
> printer's would only be getting wider).  Those that can't print on a
> wider page without reformatting (blech!) could let the printer lie to
> them.

Aw, for pete's sake, read Inside Mac.  The printer doesn't "lie."  The 
Printing Manager (whose behavior is determined by the printer type and the 
printing environment set up by the program and the user) tells the program 
what the page rectangle is.  Whatever the program draws in that rectangle 
gets printed.  Whatever gets drawn outside the rectangle doesn't get 
printed.  If you think something other than that is "the truth," perhaps 
you would be so kind as to explain it for the rest of us.

Sorry to let myself sound annoyed, but I *am* annoyed at the 
misinformation being published here.  There was a time when Mac printing 
was very poorly documented, and it was natural for people to misunderstand 
what a page rect meant -- but that was a long time ago.

David Casseres
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