Lines cut off at bottom of page

In creating run of the mill academic papers, I've encountered the following problem. Pages will cut off the last line on particular pages. (Only the top portions of characters that make up the line display/print.) Clearly, that last line is falling partly within an area at the bottom of the page that doesn't display or print. I can get the line to display (and print) be adding or deleting earlier text (and so moving the defective line up or onto the next page) or changing the leading, but this is a bad idea when you're constantly revising and editing a paper. Note that I'm using 1" margins top and bottom, so this isn't a printer issue. Indeed, page numbers below the text display properly. Is there a fix?

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Aug 18, 2009 3:08 PM

21 replies

Aug 25, 2009 10:01 AM in response to Warren Beck

Just to weigh in, I have the same problem, writing sermons using 9pt. text. When the entire line is truncated horizontally, for all practical purposes it becomes non-existent. I too sent a complaint via the "Pages Feedback" webpage. Thanks for your input! Hope something good comes out of this.

Aug 25, 2009 1:03 PM in response to John F Heil

John,
I was having the same problem & posted such until I started tweaking the "Document Margins" in the inspector. I regularly use documents using 9pt. mixed fonts for text so the difference is miniscule & varied.

While your document is in "Show Layout" mode, there is a shadow surrounding & representing the outer limit of each document. In "Hide Layout" mode you would never know—until printing—that the sentence was cut horizontally.

The trick—for me anyway—was to place my Document Margins inside the shadowed area. I had to adjust the "Top" & "Bottom" Margins by a just few 10ths to get the entire document printed.
Thanks for bringing the discussion up. I have a lot to learn!

KOENIG Yvan

Level 8

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Aug 25, 2009 1:34 PM in response to Warren Beck

I got the text.

It's the old line spacing setting "Exactly" which strikes.

In several pages, the current text is using two different "exact" spacings (24 and 29 points).
I apologize but from my point of view, this change gives an awful result.
I tried to apply the setting "between" to the chunck of 'current text in page 1.
As the result is OK (at least from my point of view, I tried to apply this setting (13.2 points between) to the other chunks of current text.
Some adjustments may be useful but it seems OK.

Given the well known problem with "exact" it seems that "between" is the soluce.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France.) mardi 25 août 2009 22:34:33

After that, the text is correctly distributed and the oddity is gone.

fruhulda

Level 6

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Aug 18, 2009 10:04 PM in response to John F Heil

Also tick the option Show Layout in the menu View. You'll see lines for text area, footer and header, and a grey border which is the area the printer need.

John F Heil Author

Level 1

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Aug 19, 2009 11:52 AM in response to John F Heil

No, my problem seems not to be printer related. I'm using a GCC Elite 26N, which allows for margins as small as 1/2" (at least). And baseline shift is set to 0. Still stumped!

Aug 20, 2009 6:17 AM in response to John F Heil

Have you checked the baseline shift John?

Peter

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