On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:57:39 +0100 Markus Hitter <m...@jump-ing.de> wrote:
> Am 18.01.2011 um 09:42 schrieb Colin D Bennett: > > > it's unfortunate that printers are usually not > > physically capable of printing on the entire page for the intended > > paper size. However, given that this is a widespread restriction, > > there > > are really only two options for the printer when you ask it to > > print a document on a particular size page - it has to scale the > > image or it has to crop it to the printable area. > > Third option is to simply ignore that restriction and let the > printer do the cropping. Actually, that's the easiest one to code, > and the one least confusing to the user. That "third option" is exactly what I meant by my second option, "the printer ... has to crop it to the printable area". > What you guys are probably talking about is the imaginable area of a > print. That's <= paper area, of course, and advertised by the I think everyone might _imagine_ a slightly different area to print! The printer will only be able to _image_ a certain area, however... :-) Regards, Colin _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user