On Friday 13 February 2009 09:45:55 Doug Laidlaw wrote: > Hi. I am putting together a family history. My publisher and I both like > B5 size pages, but B5 paper is not available in small quantities to > practise on. > > I find that if I write at system default (A4) then reduce it to B5 or A5, > only the printing is reduced. I have a small printed area on A4 paper, > near the top left corner. Even exporting to Postscript does the same > thing. > > I think that what is happening is that the printing is in the corner of the > sheet, the way it would be put on a photocopier, while my printer centres > the smaller sheet, so the printing is displaced relative to the media. > > The above reads "as clear as mud," but I am sure that this issue has arisen > before. What is the way around it? > > TIA, > > Doug.
Are you concerned about final output, or about producing draft versions similar enough to the final output to allow visual inspection of the pages? If about final output: what is the publisher requesting? Camera-ready copies (in Pdf format, I would suppose)? In that case, I would set up the page you want with the geometry package, and add cropmarks to indicate the real margins. Or is the publisher going to reset the manuscript in a DTP package, and you are only worried about your draft versions? In taht case just changing the margins , as it has been suggested, could be enough. S. ______________________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Department of Philosophy Ph: (979) 862-2211 Texas A&M University Fax: (979) 845-0458 305B Bolton Hall fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu College Station, TX 77843-4237
