Re: gEDA-user: gschem: How to set the margin for printing?

2011-01-19 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:57:39 +0100 Markus Hitter 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 restricti

Re: gEDA-user: gschem: How to set the margin for printing?

2011-01-19 Thread Markus Hitter
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 i

Re: gEDA-user: gschem: How to set the margin for printing?

2011-01-18 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:43:13 -0600 John Griessen wrote: > On 01/17/2011 12:47 AM, Colin D Bennett wrote: > > It seems bad to force the drawing to be designed for a specific > > printer and page (thus margin in paper space units) size. > > It also seems bad for printers to not print all they are

Re: gEDA-user: gschem: How to set the margin for printing?

2011-01-17 Thread John Griessen
On 01/17/2011 12:47 AM, Colin D Bennett wrote: It seems bad to force the drawing to be designed for a specific printer and page (thus margin in paper space units) size. It also seems bad for printers to not print all they are given, when they are given a standard page size they are advertised t

Re: gEDA-user: gschem: How to set the margin for printing?

2011-01-17 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Peter TB Brett wrote: > Unfortunately, your current best bet is to export with no margins and > then use a tool which can talk CUPS to shrink to the correct printer > extents. I filed a feature request on launchpad. ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak Email: k...@familieknaak.de Öffentlic

Re: gEDA-user: gschem: How to set the margin for printing?

2011-01-17 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Monday 17 January 2011 02:07:32 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > Hi. > The print dialog of gschem offers "Extents with margins" by default. > This margin is larger than necessary or my printer. But no margin is > too little. Is there a way to set the size of the margin? I couldn't > find "margin" in sy

Re: gEDA-user: gschem: How to set the margin for printing?

2011-01-16 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 20:20:32 -0600 John Griessen wrote: > On 01/16/2011 08:07 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > > But no margin is > > too little. Is there a way to set the size of the margin? > > > Put something that prints along the edge of the page > so that it goes int the unprintable space on

Re: gEDA-user: gschem: How to set the margin for printing?

2011-01-16 Thread John Griessen
On 01/16/2011 08:07 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: But no margin is too little. Is there a way to set the size of the margin? Put something that prints along the edge of the page so that it goes int the unprintable space on your printer. Save that as a page border for use with your printer and se

gEDA-user: gschem: How to set the margin for printing?

2011-01-16 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Hi. The print dialog of gschem offers "Extents with margins" by default. This margin is larger than necessary or my printer. But no margin is too little. Is there a way to set the size of the margin? I couldn't find "margin" in system-gschemrc. ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak Email: k..