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Re: Unprintable regions - definitive answer sought

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From: Ben Goren
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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