Margins in the printer properties
Sascha Sommer
saschasommer at freenet.de
Wed Sep 28 16:26:06 CEST 2005
> > The question is how to fix. Maybe simply removing the QMAXs
> > would help.
> > What do you think?
>
> It's actually a *feature*. You can read the extended reasoning in that
> thread: http://lists.kde.org/?t=110607853400003&r=1&w=2
> The point is that an application that do not want to print on the whole
> page (setFullPage(false)), expects to print with some reasonable margins
> by default, even if the PPD files says it can print on the whole page.
> However, you should be able to go beyond these reasonable margins by using
> an application capable of printing on the whole page (setFullPage(true)),
> I think KWord is one.
>
Thanks, now I understand.
For most cases it is probably better, I was only curious because my cdlabes
were at the wrong position and had the wrong size.
I'll stay with gimp then.
Regards
Sascha
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