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- Organization: Arizona State University
- Date: Monday, 25 Jan 1993 14:50:48 MST
- From: Ben Goren <AUBXG@ASUACAD.BITNET>
- Message-ID: <93025.145049AUBXG@ASUACAD.BITNET>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
- Subject: Re: Unprintable regions - definitive answer sought
- References: <C1EMrJ.2M3@mnveger.uucp>
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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&
-