michaelrsweet
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19 years ago CUPS.org User: mike
The imageable area defines the size and position of the page image; by altering the imageable area outside the area supported by the printer, the image is shifted by the printer.
Version: 1.1.21rc1 CUPS.org User: jeffw.csun
I thought imageablearea specified a cropping boundary on a page so that material is not printed outside the printer's area of capability. Am I wrong?
If I'm not wrong then a strange thing is happening...
With an imageablearea of 18 13.5 594 780 my document prints (dvips) with proper margins.
however, if I change imageablearea to 0 13.5 594 780 my actual text is moved to the right by 18 points.
Why in the world would altering a cropping boundary actually shift content around on the page? Changing the Y-axis boundary parameters does not seem to shift content up or down in the verticle direction.
So it appears to me that something is misinterpreting the imageablearea values pretty badly.
In fact: If I set the imageablearea to something bizarre: 136 13.5 594 780 I get some really bizarre stuff: The cups test page says that my lower left corner is at 1.89x0.19 when in reality the corner of the black frame is actually printed at 0.22x0.19 inches.
I can't figure out a rationale for this behavior. If I set the left margin in really far it still prints the left margin in the same place (but the right x margin seems to be affected by the left x value)
everything always prints at the same left x position regardless of that imageablearea value (except that it affects the right edge somehow)
The vertical (Y) direction works as expected in all respects.
Any ideas? I think it is really annoying that a cropping boundary affects content position. I spent the last two hours trying to figure out why my LaTeX documents weren't conforming to the LaTeX margins that I set and it was because the imageablearea left setting affects content position.