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On Saturday 08 Sep 2007, Matt Rogers wrote:
> On Sep 8, 2007, at 2:29 PM, Alex Merry wrote:
> > Are custom margins really needed?
>
> What do you mean by custom margins? I think they would be needed for
> printing things like photos where the margins are very tiny or
> nonexistant.

Well, KPrinter (and Qt3's QPrinter) provides methods which allow you to=20
get and set the left, right, top and bottom margins.

QPrinter provides paperRect() and pageRect(), the latter being the=20
printable area.  There is no way to set the margins yourself, but you=20
can use setFullPage() to change the origin from the top left of=20
pageRect() to the top left of paperRect().

The reason setting the margins doesn't really make sense is that=20
printers have an area that they can print on (which may be the full=20
page for some printers), and no amount of software settings is going to=20
change that.

I'm not sure what applications are currently setting the margins for -=20
possibly just to change the co-ordinate system.  However, you can do=20
this using QPainter::translate().

Alex



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