How can I print on 8 1/2x11 paper w/publisher w/o a white border?

D

David Alan

I am trying to print an 8 1/2 x 11 document using Publisher and I am getting
a 1/4 inch white border around the document. I selected "full page" for the
layout (8 1/2 x 11) and the paper size is "letter". I would like the
background to print up to the edges. Any suggestions would be very helpful.
Thanks.
 
J

John Inzer

David said:
I am trying to print an 8 1/2 x 11 document using
Publisher and I am getting a 1/4 inch white border around
the document. I selected "full page" for the layout (8
1/2 x 11) and the paper size is "letter". I would like
the background to print up to the edges. Any suggestions
would be very helpful. Thanks.
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Does your printer "Print To The Edge"?
Many/most inkjets do not.

The following article explains how to find
your printable area:

"How to find the maximum print area of your printer"
http://www.mvps.org/the_nerd/Publisher/horidiag.htm
 
M

Mary Sauer

Wow, Ed, great web site. I will be directing folks to your tutorials?

The re-direct on your Nerd site does not work automatically. It tries over and
over. The link does work.
 
E

Ed Bennett

Mary Sauer said:
Wow, Ed, great web site. I will be directing folks to your tutorials?
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Thank you :)

Most of it is old content ported over to a new system. Let me know if
anything's broken, and I'll see if I can fix it.
The re-direct on your Nerd site does not work automatically. It tries
over and over. The link does work.
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The odd thing is that it does work in Opera. I've pinged Karl Peterson to
see if he can get me access to me .htaccess - if I can change that, I can
use a different method for redirecting.
 
E

Erika

Ed said:
Apologies; I have just moved servers, and it appears that Internet Explorer
doesn't support the method I've used for the redirect.

There's now a link to the new page, or you can use the new link:
http://ed.mvps.org/Static.aspx?=Publisher/horidiag
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Ed said:
Tell me what you want to see here, and I'll stick it up for you.
Until then, you're stuck with what you see here.
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I want to see a photo of you ;-)

I was disappointed your pages didn't validate. You need to select an
xhtml doctype:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional/EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

My final advice to you: You're drinking to much coke and pepsi. It's SO
bad for you.
 
E

Ed Bennett

Erika said:
Ed, your new pages look great!
Thanks!

I want to see a photo of you ;-)
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I'll put one up soon...ish. :)
I was disappointed your pages didn't validate. You need to select an
xhtml doctype:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional/EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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I didn't code them myself - simply used a template.
(And I don't believe in validation for the point of it. You can write
perfectly valid W3C code that will not work in every (or sometimes even any)
browser (writing code that gets through the W3C validator AND has complex
layout AND renders correctly in every browser is virtually impossible, from
what my slightly more experienced web designing friends have said), and you
can write code that will work in every browser under the sun and yet is
riddled with errors. I prefer the latter, myself.
My final advice to you: You're drinking to much coke and pepsi. It's
SO bad for you.
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I know... but it's that or alcohol.
 
E

Erika

It looked like a template because there's a lot of coding that I don't
think you're actually using. You still should have the correct doctype.
I didn't code them myself - simply used a template.
(And I don't believe in validation for the point of it. You can write
perfectly valid W3C code that will not work in every (or sometimes even any)
browser (writing code that gets through the W3C validator AND has complex
layout AND renders correctly in every browser is virtually impossible, from
what my slightly more experienced web designing friends have said), and you
can write code that will work in every browser under the sun and yet is
riddled with errors. I prefer the latter, myself.
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That's so wrong. Valid markup will work in virtually every browser
except for problems in IE, and that hopefully will be rectified with IE7.

Valid markup will not be riddled with errors.
 
E

Ed Bennett

Erika said:
It looked like a template because there's a lot of coding that I don't
think you're actually using. You still should have the correct
doctype.
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And if I can work out how to modify the blog engine I'm using to add one, I
will. Then I'll have 200 XHTML errors. Wonderful.
That's so wrong. Valid markup will work in virtually every browser
except for problems in IE, and that hopefully will be rectified with
IE7.
Click to expand...

I doubt it will be fixed with IE7, and I believe I've seen "valid" markup
break in Opera. If I used FireFox, I probably would have seen it there as
well.
Valid markup will not be riddled with errors.
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That's because the definition of "valid" is that it does not have "errors".

I still assert that writing code that works in all browsers (particularly
target browsers) is more important than writing code that complies with W3C
standards.
 
E

Erika

Ed said:
And if I can work out how to modify the blog engine I'm using to add one, I
will. Then I'll have 200 XHTML errors. Wonderful.
;-)




I doubt it will be fixed with IE7, and I believe I've seen "valid" markup
break in Opera. If I used FireFox, I probably would have seen it there as
well. ....

I still assert that writing code that works in all browsers (particularly
target browsers) is more important than writing code that complies with W3C
standards.
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Ok, Opera has quirks. But if you write for Firefox first and then hack
for IE & maybe Opera if you need it, you'll have valid code that works
in all browsers (not real old ones of course).

But I'm not really a standards evangelist so I'll just say - each to
their own and that's enough of this. Your stuff looks perfect.
 

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