Printing plain text with exact positioning on Windows

[Sean DiZazzo]

On Jan 5, 11:40 am, KvS <keesvansch... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 5, 7:16 pm, Nobody <nob... at nowhere.com> wrote:
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> > On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:40:14 -0800, KvS wrote:
> > >> Did you mean borderless printing?
> > >> Every printer needs his margins, some more some less. Some printers have the
> > >> ability to do borderless printing but usualy they can do it only on special
> > >> or photo paper. So you can adjust the pdf as you wish, even with no margins,
> > >> and then try to find under printer options "borderless printing". That is
> > >> why I didn't understand :-)) it is a printer thing not pdf!
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> > > As much as possible "borderless", yes. Of course the printer will
> > > still apply some small margin, but that's ok. A margin of say <0.5 cm.
> > > is fine. So it's not a printer thing, I accept the (physical)
> > > limitations of the printer, but I want to avoid any extra margins due
> > > to software settings.
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> > "Hardcopy" document formats such as PostScript and PDF use positions
> > relative to the edges of the page, not the margins.
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> Right. Still, Acrobat Reader by default scales the contents to fit on
> a page and creates some margins by doing so, no? So if my text is
> close to the left and right edges, as I want, it will get scaled and
> extra margins will occur. Avoiding this still requires me to be able
> to turn off this scaling in the printing preferences somehow
> programmatically, so it doesn't seem to make the problem easier?

Maybe you could have the user print your data on a larger sheet of
paper;one that is sure to include all of the data, and include crop
marks on the printout.  The user then cuts along the crop marks to
leave a perfectly sized, marginless page. This is how printers do
bleeds.