Ah! I looked up "print" in the documentation, and I put the following in my ~/.vimrc file:
:set printoptions=paper:letter And printing from Apple Preview then had no problems for me. Thank you! -Dave On Oct 29, 1:47 pm, Steven Michalske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A4 or letter paper, vim defaults to A4 which is a touch longer..... > > depending on your printer settings it can scale the page and whatnot. > > adobe reader is aggressive about pre scaling the pages to fit, apple > has a prints to size by default > > both have benefits and drawbacks. i don't like it when adobe scales > a 1:1 drawing I got from a letter sized pdf by 98% to cause me grief > in matching dimensions. > > yet i dislike A4 pages not scaling down.... > > On Oct 29, 2008, at 10:08 AM, aireydc wrote: > > > > > What is strange is that when I save the 0.pdf preview of the MacVim > > text file to a .pdf file, say, jobs.pdf, if I print the file using > > Adobe Reader (v9) I have no run over margins issue, but if I print the > > same PDF with Apple Preview, I have this problem. > > > On Oct 29, 12:00 pm, aireydc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> When I print a text file, I get a PDF preview window that seems > >> correct with regard to margins, but when I send it to the printer, > >> the > >> margins are not respected and text runs off the bottom of the page. > >> Anybody else have this problem or is the issue known? I'm using the > >> latest stable release and OS X Leopard up to date, with HP printers. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
