>>>>There are also Distance of Text settings on the shapes tab of the >>>>Properties Palette. You might want to try setting them instead of >>>>reducing the border size. >>>> >>> >>>Correct me if I'm wrong but I think what Rolf means is that the page margins >>>determine your print boundries. Anything outside of the margins will not be >>>printed. So if your left margin is 2", anything within that 2" strip will >>>not >>>be printed. If a graphic overflows into that margin, it will be chopped off. >>>I found this out the hard way so now I set all of my page margins to 0 and >>>just use the guides instead. >>> >> >>That is what I gathered from the original post, as well as my personal >>experience and work-around. I think my biggest complaint about this >>particular misfeature is that I cannot set items outside of the > > > Its not a misfeature really.. a margin shouldnt be printed outside of, > and Scribus doesnt let you.
I would respectfully disagree. For creating documents with bleed (which is every document I make), you *have* to print outside the margin. So, as others have pointed out, the margin feature is essentially useless and we just have to use guides instead. Paul Davidson
