How to print with no borders or margin for cover only

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How to print with no borders or margin for cover only

Hello,

I'm trying to create a Pages document with a choice for the User of the document (template) for either Cover A or Cover B (currently as a 'Section' option... ie. the User can click on Cover A or Cover B and the new page will be added to the Pages tab.

I do not wish for a margin on either of the cover pages, but I do for all other pages/sections. Can someone please advise how to do this? I've currently got the file setup so that a coloured shape masks the margins of the cover sheet.

Many thanks in advance!

Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Jan 9, 2011 8:06 PM

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Answer 1

Jan 10, 2011 6:16 AM in response to singletracknsw

s,

It's not clear to me what your problem is. I think I understand what you want to do, but I don't understand what isn't working for you.

Jerry

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Answer 2

KOENIG Yvan

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Jan 10, 2011 6:52 AM in response to singletracknsw

As far as I know, margins are document's global properties so, we can't set different ones for a given page.

What may be easily done is to put every components of the first page in floating boxes. This way, we aren't restricted to the rectangle defined by the margins.

As I had one already open, I did the trick in a Layout document but we may achieve the same layout in a Word Processor document.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 10 janvier 2011 15:51:59

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Answer 3

Jan 10, 2011 2:44 PM in response to KOENIG Yvan

Thank you both for your responses.

Yvan, in reply to your suggestion of putting all of the components into a floating box. This is already the case, albeit each element is it's own floating box with no text alignment. I'm wondering if you printed out that file you included as an example whether a border was placed around the image top left hand corner?

Jerrold, I'm sorry if my explanation was poor. I want to create a cover page that has no margin, no border so the images/shapes print right to the edge of the A4 sized paper. I've currently setup the document with the following stack from back to front:
1. default white page, no content, margins default (1.2cm)
2. orange shape floating to fill the entire A4 layout (covers the entire white space beneath)
3. image floating over the orange bottom right hand corner (image placed where there is no margin/padding bottom and right sides).
When I print this page, I get a border/margin/padding of white all around the page of about 0.5cm even though my preview and layout doesn't have one
I hope this helps.

Thankyou fellas. Sorry for the late reply... timezone!

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Answer 4

Jan 10, 2011 3:54 PM in response to singletracknsw

How close you can print to the edge of the paper depends upon your printer. Your printer's driver tells OSX/Pages what the minimum margins are depending on the physical capabilities of the printer and Pages shows you these limits as dead areas on the page, not always symmetrical. Some printers have paper size choices the specify borderless. If you select borderless in the Page Setup dialog, Pages will show it that way, but again, not all printers will offer that.

Jerry

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Answer 5

Jan 10, 2011 4:05 PM in response to Jerrold Green1

Thanks Jerry, this is very helpful!

What a pity, because my client doesn't want to part with it (the design to the edges).

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Answer 6

Jan 10, 2011 4:22 PM in response to singletracknsw

Does your printer have a borderless setting? Does your client's?

Check the paper size list.

Jerry

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Answer 7

Jan 10, 2011 4:55 PM in response to Jerrold Green1

nice one Jerry! I do!! Yes I do, client does not.

however, they are willing to back the design if I set the page setup to print to A4-borderless, that way if their client does not have this setting then their printer will apply a border.

the other option is of course to present a third cover page where my client has to do the printing where their printer does not support borderless.

thankyou all

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KOENIG Yvan

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Jan 11, 2011 5:19 AM in response to singletracknsw

singletracknsw wrote:
Thank you both for your responses.

Yvan, in reply to your suggestion of putting all of the components into a floating box. This is already the case, albeit each element is it's own floating box with no text alignment. I'm wondering if you printed out that file you included as an example whether a border was placed around the image top left hand corner?

No, there is no border around the embedded pictures in my example.
If I use a printer able to print with no margin, yes, the picture reach the border of the paper sheet. This is why I posted here.

Of course, if the printer is unable to do that, it will not do it.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 11 janvier 2011 14:19:23

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