On Jan 5, 11:40 am, KvS <keesvansch...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 5, 7:16 pm, Nobody <nob...@nowhere.com> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:40:14 -0800, KvS wrote: > > >> Did you mean borderless printing? > > >> Every printer needs his margins, some more some less. Some printers have > > >> the > > >> ability to do borderless printing but usualy they can do it only on > > >> special > > >> or photo paper. So you can adjust the pdf as you wish, even with no > > >> margins, > > >> and then try to find under printer options "borderless printing". That is > > >> why I didn't understand :-)) it is a printer thing not pdf! > > > > As much as possible "borderless", yes. Of course the printer will > > > still apply some small margin, but that's ok. A margin of say <0.5 cm. > > > is fine. So it's not a printer thing, I accept the (physical) > > > limitations of the printer, but I want to avoid any extra margins due > > > to software settings. > > > "Hardcopy" document formats such as PostScript and PDF use positions > > relative to the edges of the page, not the margins. > > Right. Still, Acrobat Reader by default scales the contents to fit on > a page and creates some margins by doing so, no? So if my text is > close to the left and right edges, as I want, it will get scaled and > extra margins will occur. Avoiding this still requires me to be able > to turn off this scaling in the printing preferences somehow > programmatically, so it doesn't seem to make the problem easier?
Maybe you could have the user print your data on a larger sheet of paper;one that is sure to include all of the data, and include crop marks on the printout. The user then cuts along the crop marks to leave a perfectly sized, marginless page. This is how printers do bleeds. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
