Have a look at printMargins in the Language Dictionary On 27 Mar 2014, at 12:42, Terry Vogelaar <tvogel...@de-mare.nl> wrote:
> I want to make software to generate a printed newsletter. > > First I did the page layout in HTML so I could use revBrowserPrint to print > it. But to my amazement it didn't fill the whole A4 sheet. The layout was > scaled down to 16 cm wide (instead of 21). > So I did the math and scaled up the entire layout by 132%. I tried again: > still 16 cm wide. > > I thought it might be a revBrowserPrint problem, so I printed a stack > instead. What was supposed to be the top left corner was printed on a > distance of 25,4 mm from the top and from the left of the paper (1 inch). > > I finally understood the weird scaling. Apparently every print from LC needs > a margin of an inch, because 21 cm minus 2 inches is around 16 cm. I hope I'm > wrong on this; I hope this can be adjusted and I like to know how. > > In my opinion, this margin is so wide that it looks quite silly. I understand > that printers cannot use the outermost edges, but that should be around 4 mm, > or 1 cm at most. Not an inch! > > How can I teach LC some sanity here? I would be fine with a margin of 1 cm on > each side. > > Kind regards, > Terry > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
