Text Box & Border Art

[MikeC]

New Publisher 2003 user and getting quickly frustrated.

I have setup a custom page size of 6.5" x 4.5" under Page Setup/Print
Settings. I then created a text box of the same size, and filled it with the
text I wanted. I then want to add a border to this text box. So, I right
click on the text box, and choose Border Art under the Colors and Lines tab,
and select the border "Twisted Lines" and hit apply. All is good. Now comes
the trouble.

I hit print preview and about 1/8" around the entire page is cutoff. All
the margins are set to 0". I'm at a loss.

I do notice that if I click the text box the ruler at the top now shows that
from 0"-0.125" is greyed out and same from 4"-4.5". Delete the border art
and it goes back to 0"-4.5".

Any suggestions?

 

[Mary Sauer]

What are the margin limitations of your printer?
http://ed.mvps.org/Static.aspx?=Publisher/horidiag

Create a rectangle around the page, Lines, more lines, turn this into your
Twisted Lines BorderArt. Send it to the back. Does that make a difference?

 

[MikeC]

OK followed your link, and used Wordpad to figure out the margin limitation
of the printer.....low and behold they are not 0. I set the layout guides to
those values and scale everything back to be inside those layout guides and
it prints. But now all the text that's centered on the page, is not centered
inside the scaled back text box, becuase of the margin settings.

How can I force the printer margins to be 0 so I can utilize the entire page?

Doing the rectangle into the border art made no difference using the full
page.

Thanks for your help.

 

[John Inzer]

OK followed your link, and used Wordpad to figure out the margin
limitation of the printer.....low and behold they are not 0. I set
the layout guides to those values and scale everything back to be
inside those layout guides and it prints. But now all the text
that's centered on the page, is not centered inside the scaled back
text box, becuase of the margin settings.

How can I force the printer margins to be 0 so I can utilize the
entire page?

Doing the rectangle into the border art made no difference using the
full page.

Thanks for your help.

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What if you pasted your 6.5" x 4.5" project
on an 8.5x11 page and print it? Then you
could cut it out and it would be edge to edge.

--

J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Mary Sauer]

If your stock is 6.5 x 4.5, to get the text centered you need to create the
margins the same all around. If your largest margin is .5 for example then in
the Arrange menu, Layout guides, set all the margins at .5.
You also need to setup your printer for the custom size.

 

[Ed Bennett]

OK followed your link, and used Wordpad to figure out the margin limitation
of the printer.....low and behold they are not 0. I set the layout guides to
those values and scale everything back to be inside those layout guides and
it prints. But now all the text that's centered on the page, is not centered
inside the scaled back text box, becuase of the margin settings.

You can impose symmetry back on the situation by using the larger of
each pair of values - e.g. if top is 0.5" and bottom is 1", then set
both top and bottom to 1".

How can I force the printer margins to be 0 so I can utilize the entire page?

Typically you can't, that's the point of finding out the limitations.
The only (partial) exception is if your printer supports borderless
printing.

 

[MikeC]

Ok will do (I've taken some time away from this project obviously).

Set up the layout guide for the specific margin values mentioned. Formatted
the text box to be the exact size of the layout guide. Setup the printer
(Canon MP530 inkjet) for a custom paper size of 6.5" x 4.5".

Layout looks great!! Until...I press print preview. The preview screen
(and confirmed by actually printing) shows that the top and left side margin
are LARGER than I specified, so the entire layout is not centered. Press the
close button to get back to the editing screen, and everything is centered.

What's going on? Why is this so difficult?
Mike

 

[Mary Sauer]

Can you actually setup the Canon with a custom size? Have you tried using the
photo setting of 6 x 4 borderless Canon has built in? Have you looked into
Canon's support?

http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/c...TechSpecsTabAct&fcategoryid=123&modelid=13371