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From: robertt@hp-vcd.HP.COM (Bob Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: OzTeX/Freedom of Press Light/DeskWriter
Message-ID: <970003@hp-vcd.HP.COM>
Date: 19 Dec 90 17:06:42 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Vancouver, WA
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The DeskWriter driver limits letter sized paper to 8" (.5" top margin and
.5" bottom margin) so that programs that center to the imageable area of
the page (most notably PowerPoint) have centered output on the DeskWriter.
The mechanism can actually print up to about 1/10" from the top of the page.
FOP, depending on how it is configured, may or may not be using the HP
DeskWriter driver.  My guess is that in your case, it isn't, hence the
problem.  The reason the HP DW driver makes this limit is that the printer
can not physically print on the bottom half inch of the page.  In the Mac
environment, we had to make a choice - either have a symmetrical imageable
area and have documents from all apps. center correctly (which we chose) or
to have an assymetrical imageable area and allow printing higher than .5"
on the page.

bob taylor
HP Vancouver