Re: Printing to paper edge for a "bleed tab"

[Mike Kellstrand]

Mark,

 

I ran the PDF through Ghostscript and it looks like it is doing the trick.

I did notice that the same PDF printed in Ghostscript vs. Adobe print out with slightly different size fonts.    Arg!   :)

 

Thanks a lot for the assistance,

 

Mike

Mark Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Fop to create and Ghostscript to print.  Had a very frustrating time with acrobat trying to figure out why everything I sized and positioned was never accurate.

 

Cheers

 

Mark

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Mike Kellstrand

To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 6:01 PM

Subject: Re: Printing to paper edge for a "bleed tab"

Mark,

 

I'm using FOP to make the PDF file, then opening it in AcrobatReader and printing it from there.

 

So do you use FOP to create a PDF file and then invoke Ghostscript to print it?

Or does Ghostscript come into play at an earlier point?

 

Thanks again!

 

Mike

Mark Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

As I understand it.  But there's a couple of issues here. 

 

1.    You don't need to set your page margin to 0.  The region-before etc should place your object right to the page's edges if you set it to 0

2.    How are you printing.  If you render to PDF and print from acrobat then acrobat does some funny stuff with your margins and this could be a problem.  Also, I think FOP's own print_renderer does the same sort of thing so it's never quite what you expect.  We use Ghostscript to print and it makes no attempt to fiddle with your margins or anything else.  It's happy to believe that you may actually know what you want.  Ghostscript is open source (GPL I think) although there is also a commercial version.  We find GPL works fine for us.

 

Regards,

 

Mark

 

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