Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!bbn.com!levin
From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Marginal Thinking
Keywords: chooser, page setup
Message-ID: <24940@bbn.COM>
Date: 24 May 88 17:01:56 GMT
References: <10935@steinmetz.ge.com>
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Reply-To: levin@BBN.COM (Joel B Levin)
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In article <10935@steinmetz.ge.com> leue@galen.UUCP (Bill Leue) writes:
(Page formatting with word processor and drawing applications such as
(WriteNow and MacDraw has an annoying quirk for those of us who use a
(Mac at home with an ImageWriter, but who often must print their documents
(at work on a LaserWriter.
(
(The problem is that the LaserWriter margins are somewhat narrower than
(those available on the ImageWriter, since the page coverage of the
(LaserWriter is a little indented on all sides.  . . .
(
(Some programs, such as MS Word 3.0x, allow you to set the page size
(albitrarily.  However, MacDraw has no explicit margin settings other than
(those determined by the physical page size, and so you're stuck.  . .

You can make ImageWriter margins correspond to LaserWriter margins by
setting Tall Adjusted in the Page Setup dialog (*).  _BY COINCIDENCE_,
this sets the margins, for normal 8.5 x 11 inch paper, to be the same
as for the LaserWriter.  Everything I do on my IW equipped Macs which
I expect to print eventually on the LW has Tall Adjusted checked.  I
have never had a problem.  (At one time, I was solving this by using a
% reduction with the LW driver, mainly because my MacDraw diagrams
would have needed to much fixing.  This might also help.)

	/JBL

(*) Microsoft Word (and possibly other applications) do mysterious
things with the printer driver dialogs, so you will have to
experiment.  In Word, you must set Tall Adjusted in the Print dialog
and actually start to print (you may cancel right away) for the
margins to change.  Again, foo.



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