I had not taken that into account and that was indeed the problem. That's two problems you've fixed for me today, Jeremias! Any chance you want to make it three and fix this file I/O bug I've got in my Java code? =)
If you want to email me your SnailMail address, I'll send you a thank-you postcard. P On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 04:36, Jeremias Maerki wrote: > Philip, > > (just for completeness) when printing from Acrobat Reader 5, you've got > to take into account the three checkboxes in the print dialog (in > "Copies and Adjustments") which can distort your print output by scaling > the PDF (the function is dependant on the printable areas supplied by > the printer drivers). I guess you know that one, but I can't tell from > your mail if you took that into account. > > On 10.03.2003 22:58:21 Philip Semanchuk wrote: > > Normen, > > I am using FOP to produce my PDFs and have had the same problem, but I'm > > 99% sure it has nothing to do with FOP. My left/right margins are > > specified at exactly 25mm and they appear correct in the PDF. Here are > > my left/right margin results from a few printer tests. I did all my > > printing from Acrobat Reader 5: > > HP Laserjet 5/5M, from Linux with gimp-print driver: 29/27mm > > HP 5SiMX from NT4 (driver == ???): 29/27mm > > Xerox DC460 from NT4 (I think): 25/25mm > > > > As you can see some of these are off by > 10% which I find annoying. > > We're trying to squeeze information-rich tables onto our pages and I > > don't like losing 2-3% of my page width to the printer's whims. But I > > think if we want to solve our problem we'll need to a) figure it out > > ourselves or b) take it to a newsgroup like comp.periphs.printers. I > > think FOP is not the culprit. > > Jeremias Maerki > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
