margins in Pages not printing properly

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margins in Pages not printing properly

Hello,

I have a document which requires there to be no page margins. I have gone into Page Setup, Paper Size, Manage Custom Sizes, put in my page size, and made all the custom margins ) 0 cm. However, when I print, there is still what appears to be a 0.5 cm margin. Any help or advice in getting there to be no white border around the edge of my doc would be greatly appreciated.

p.s. My printer does have the ability to print edge to edge so I know that is not the problem.

imac, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Dec 3, 2008 7:08 AM

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KOENIG Yvan

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Dec 3, 2008 10:38 AM in response to mac_user123

Are you getting these margins on the four edges or only at top and bottom (for portrait mode) ?

Setting the margins to zero is not sufficient to get rid of top and bottom blank area.

We must
(a) set the numerical value for headers to zero
then
(b) uncheck the box entitled header and footer.

The numerical values aren't defining he height of the header/footer but their offset from top/bottom of page.

With these settings, I may use my entire A4 paper sheets.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 3 décembre 2008 19:38:25)

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mac_user123 Author

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Dec 3, 2008 10:47 AM in response to KOENIG Yvan

The margins are on all four edges. The header and footer are unchecked and the numerical values are set to zero and yet I still have the same problem. Margins are still showing up in "Show Layout" and when I print. Do I just have to make sure all my text is within the margins?

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KOENIG Yvan

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Dec 3, 2008 11:15 AM in response to mac_user123

Here I put a colored background to show the used area.

As you see, there is no remaining margin.

Is the selected printer the true one or are you usin the "any printer" setting ?

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 3 décembre 2008 20:15:07)

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geogib

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Jan 20, 2009 10:14 AM in response to mac_user123

I'm having the same problem. Trying to create layout for a postcard which will be printed by VistaPrint.

They have full bleed printing and I don't need margins.

I've selected no margin, no header, no footer.

I can get left and right sides to zero out but not top or bottom. Help Apple!

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KOENIG Yvan

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Jan 20, 2009 10:44 AM in response to geogib

I repeat:

no header & no footer is not sufficient.

We must set the header & footer values to zero
then, when these values are zero, uncheck header & footer boxes.

If you don't do that, you will have top and bottom 'margins'.

I wrote that several times here and I wonder how I may explain that more clearly.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 20 janvier 2009 19:44:02)

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geogib

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Jan 20, 2009 1:19 PM in response to KOENIG Yvan

Ok, setting zero then unchecking did work for me. Thanks!

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KOENIG Yvan

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Jan 21, 2009 3:08 AM in response to geogib

Thanks for the feedback and please, ask for the same feature in Numbers.

In this one we can't completely remove the top and bottom 'margins' because we haven't header and footer checkboxes.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 21 janvier 2009 12:08:23)

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