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On Saturday 08 September 2007 22:32:16 Alex Merry wrote:
> I'm not sure what applications are currently setting the margins for -
> possibly just to change the co-ordinate system. =C2=A0However, you can do
> this using QPainter::translate().

The applications that benefit from setting margins are the ones that don't=
=20
know the concept of pages in their document.  So in the printer dialog we=20
select a page size and that page size is then used as a content size to=20
print in.
=46rom the application point of view the content size is the page size minu=
s=20
the margins.
=46rom the application POV the user entering the margins, or reading them=20
from cups makes no difference at all.

Do note that an application like KWord will ignore any margin settings in=20
the printer dialog, since it has them specified in the document already.

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Thomas Zander

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