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From: sean_parent.snarkmail_l_z@gateway.qm.apple.com (Sean Parent)
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Subject: Re: Page Rectangles (Reply part two)
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Date: 11 Oct 90 21:22:58 GMT
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In article <1990Oct10.204910.9685@agate.berkeley.edu> 
lippin@herb-ox.berkeley.edu (The Apathist) writes:
> Apparently, I was misled by Sean Parent's letter into believing that
> several of Apple's printer drivers miscalculate the page rectangle --
> that the printable area is in fact larger than the drivers report.

You where not misled at all. For at least the ImageWriter LQ and 
ImageWriter this is true. (I believe it is also true for both the 
LaserWriter SC and LaserWriter II class although I have not looked into it 
to be sure. But the incorrectness is relatively minor in most cases. On 
the LQ I believe it is .17 of an inch in page length that is lost and the 
ImageWriter loses .06 for a standard letter size page. (Both drivers could 
support a page size that was 10.5 inches in height). There hasn't been any 
special PrGeneral call added because we are all busy working on the new 
printing architecture that is completely new and different and this 
problem becomes a non-issue. I also do not believe that many (any) users 
really care about that last piece of the inch and they can get it back if 
they do care by specifing no gaps between pages. The LaserWriter driver 
also has an option for maximum print area in the page setup dialog. I do 
not see any problems here other than inconviences when you move documents 
from one printer to another (and there are many more problems doing this 
than just the page size). Use the page rect, it is your friend.

Sean Parent
"Quality unattainable in a reasonable amount of time."