Thank you very much Brian and Julian! I did the update, but it's asking me about a databse, I don't know what I should answer. The updated version seemed to be trying to recover older documents which it can't find. (I get red X's), so they must be from long ago. I clicked ok and now it's asking this:
On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 3:43 PM Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com.invalid> wrote: > At 14:32 09/03/2019 -0500, Julian Thomas wrote: > >On Mar 9, 2019, at 12:32, Brian Barker wrote: > >>Remember that many (most?) printers cannot print to the very edge > >>of the paper, so you need some blank margins anyway. If, as you > >>suggest, you are going to share this document, remember also that > >>the margins need to be big enough for your consumers' printers, not just > yours. > > > >Exception is when the doc is only going to be shared as .doc .odt or .pdf. > > Sorry, but no: the format in which the document is shared is > irrelevant. Any format can be displayed on screen with material to > the edge of the document, but if it ends up being printed it is the > printer's limitations that must be considered. The questioner did not > suggest that the final document was never to be printed; in any case, > how would she know that no-one wanted to use it in this way? > > >Also if you are using a smaller paper size. > > No paper size is small or large in an absolute sense! (Is a "smaller > paper size" shorter than a piece of string?) And the restriction > applies even if printing is performed on paper smaller than the > largest that any printer can handle. The main problem is that it is > more or less impossible to guarantee that the printed image lands > precisely on the paper, especially with low-end printers likely to be > used in the home or office. Any pigment thus deposited instead on > supporting rollers creates unpleasant set-off. Professional printers > arrange printing to the edge of the paper by printing slightly > oversized images on even more oversized paper and trimming it to size > afterwards. > > Brian Barker > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
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