Re: Printing to paper edge for a "bleed tab"

[Mike Kellstrand]

Mark,

 

I'm using FOP to make the PDF file, then opening it in AcrobatReader and printing it from there.

 

So do you use FOP to create a PDF file and then invoke Ghostscript to print it?

Or does Ghostscript come into play at an earlier point?

 

Thanks again!

 

Mike

Mark Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

As I understand it.  But there's a couple of issues here. 

 

1.    You don't need to set your page margin to 0.  The region-before etc should place your object right to the page's edges if you set it to 0

2.    How are you printing.  If you render to PDF and print from acrobat then acrobat does some funny stuff with your margins and this could be a problem.  Also, I think FOP's own print_renderer does the same sort of thing so it's never quite what you expect.  We use Ghostscript to print and it makes no attempt to fiddle with your margins or anything else.  It's happy to believe that you may actually know what you want.  Ghostscript is open source (GPL I think) although there is also a commercial version.  We find GPL works fine for us.

 

Regards,

 

Mark

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Mike Kellstrand

To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 5:15 PM

Subject: Re: Printing to paper edge for a "bleed tab"

Mark,

 

Well that is good news.

Is there anything I need to do, other than setting the page margins to zero?

 

Are you saying that a given document will print right up to the edge on one printer, but have 1/2 margin all around on another?

 

Interesting.  That does make sense ....

 

Thanks for the help,

 

Mike

Mark Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi Mike,

 

This doesn't sound like a FOP problem, but a printer problem.  We manage to get objects at the extremes of the pages in region-before etc, but whether they print depends on the printer capabilities.

 

Cheers,

 

Mark Williams

----- Original Message -----

From: Mike Kellstrand

To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 4:02 PM

Subject: Printing to paper edge for a "bleed tab"

Is it possible in FO / FOP to print right up to the edge of the paper in the start and end regions?

 

Using FOP I have not been able to get closer than about a 1/2 inch to the edge.

 

I need to be able to print a "bleed tab", which is a colored rectangular area on the page edge that lets you see chapter divisions while looking at the edge of a book.

 

Is this possible in FOP, and if not does anyone know of any FO product that can do it?

 

Thanks,

 

Mike Kellstrand

 

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