Atte writes: | On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Forgeot Eric wrote: | > pageheight 29.7cm | > pagewidth 21cm | > topspace 0.00 | > topmargin 0.50cm %or less... | > botmargin 1.00cm | > leftmargin 1.00cm | > rightmargin 1.00cm | | I had something like that, yes, and it looke pretty fine here through | gv, but then I looked at a pdf-version on a mac...:-( Top of page missing | both on screen and paper... *That's* what I don't get and am asking for. I | have no problem finding nice settings here, but apparently a pdf is not a | pdf as I assumed... I must admit I don't understand the inner workings of | neither abcm2ps, postscript, gv, ps2pdf or pdf, but it must be possible to | produce a single pdf that will print beautifully on any platform. | Otherwise they should change PDF into DF...
Actually, there's a consistent problem that no software has a chance of fixing: Different printers (even of the same model) have different borders along the edges that they don't print. There's no way that I've ever seen to ask a printer for the size of its non-printing borders. And when a program like abc2ps is run, it generally can't know what printer you're going to use. So even if a program could ask your printer about its border, it doesn't help; you could send the output to a different printer. The real solution is to get printers to print the entire page. But you pay extra for that. Most people don't even think to ask about such things when they buy a printer. If it's at work, someone else probably made the purchase decision. And so on. It'll probably be a very long time before printers all print right up to the edge of the physical page. You see the same problem with copiers, of course. You can have a nice printed page of music, and when you run it through a copier, you find that some of the edges fade out. Good things to bring up when some salesman starts talking about the high quality of their equipment. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
