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From: dorner@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Word 3.0 Bug??
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Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 08:56:00 EDT
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Nf-From: uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner    Jun 15 07:56:00 1987


All this business of messing with margins depending on the printer
driver in use is driving me up a wall.

It seems obvious to me that a word processor should NOT scale the
margins based on the printer in use.  If I want 1" left and right
margins on the Imagewriter, I will want them on the Laserwriter, too.
It doesn't make a bit of difference to me that the Imagewriter can
print 1/8" closer to the edge of the paper than the Laserwriter.

And if I transgress?  If I exceed the sacred PRINTABLE AREA?  Warn me;
chop off my text--I don't care, I can change the margins myself.  But
Don't Tread on My Ruler!

Doesn't anybody (doesn't EVERYBODY) else feel this way?

Steve
dorner@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu