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Article #6508Re: Unprintable regions - definitive answer sought
From: Ben Goren
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:50
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:50
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The printable region is treated as the initial clipping path; therefore, a bit of code like 0 0 moveto 72 0 lineto 72 72 lineto 0 72 lineto closepath fill showpage will, on most printers, generate a rectangle with its upper right corner one inch from the bottom left edge of the page and the lower left corner at the edge of the prinable area. Note that "page" does not allways mean "piece of paper." On a typical imagesetter, a sheet of letter paper is actually centered on a 12" roll of paper, and it images all the way to the edges (as the printable area is the same as the page size in this case). On that particular imagesetter, it is *not* going to go through all fifty feet of paper just to print on the edge of the page.... b&
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