Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!unido!gmdzi!strobl From: strobl@gmdzi.gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Scalable Font DJ Driver Message-ID: <4362@gmdzi.gmd.de> Date: 21 Mar 91 17:04:07 GMT References: <2271@borg.cs.unc.edu> <920005@hp-vcd.HP.COM> Organization: GMD, St. Augustin, F.R. Germany Lines: 35 robertt@hp-vcd.HP.COM (Bob Taylor) writes: >> By the way, does anybody know why the new scalable Deskjet driver >> refuses to print within 1.25 cm of the top of the page? >> >> The DeskJet driver which comes with Windows 3.0 only needs a 0.76 cm >> margin an the top. I have to rework most of my document templates >> because of this unnecessary and undocumented new restriction. >This is due to some apps. (notably PowerPoint) which always center their >output on the imageable area of the page (rather than the physical area >of the page). Since the DeskJet/Plus/500 can't print on the bottom .5" >of the page, if you let the imageable area go all the way to the top of >the page, output from these appls. will never be centered - and the user >can't do anything about it. In the end it was a judgement call - centered >output or printing on the top 1/2 inch of the page. Since most people >don't print at the top of the page (from marketing research), we decided >to center the printable area - hence losing the top 1/2 inch. Thanks for the explaination! While I understand the motive behind this decision, I'm a bit irritated by the fact that somebody has to cripple his device driver in order to work around a bug - a programming or design fault - in an application, especially if this faulty application comes from Microsoft. What about making the position and size of the printable area an option of the printer driver, with the current values as defaults? The driver has to support various paper formats anyway, so this should require no additional code beyond handling the new variables in the driver, and it would satisfy both kinds of users - those using PowerPoint, and those who want to print on the top 1/2 inch of the page. Wolfgang Strobl #include