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When you have .5 margin all around and you also want the fold lines to be correct,
the center of the brochure columns will have to match your outside margins. If only you want the front of the brochure to fit the panel, it will have to have .5 margin on the left as well as the right. The margins are always determined by your printer's limitation. Look in your documentation or open WordPad, page setup, input zero into each margin, WordPad will default to your printer's specifications. The largest margin will be on the bottom in portrait and on the right in landscape. I have attached a small .gif. -- Mary Sauer MS MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://www.msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Susan" wrote in message ... I have finished trifold brochure. I have used the grids lines for three columns. I have margins set at .5 inches. Thus I have a .5 margin all around my page. If I reduce the margins, I get part of a text box border not printing at the edge of the paper. My problem is that folding the brochure three ways does not work because I have that margin around the edge. The folds do not fall on the space between the columns. What should I do? I am not going to print the brochure on my printer but take it to Office Depot or Staples to have it printed. If it is printed elsewhere, can the margins be set to be closer to the edge of the paper? Please offer any suggestions and information. Thanks, Susan |
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I ran to Staples and took the CD with me. I found out
that Staples uses a Canon ImageRunner 8500. Maybe you can tell me what the margins can be set to for that one for portrait and landscape? Steve was so helpful and played around with the margins on my document to work with their printer and then seeing how it would print. I came home with the document and a floppy and arranged the guides to see what he adjusted the text boxes to. He kept the top and bottom margins at .5" and adjusted the left and right margins to .2". Thanks, Susan The new employee tried to open my file on CD but had a read problem. Steve said that it was because Publisher tries to create a temporary file to make changes but can't with a CD. That explains why I have had problems with Publisher and CD's! -----Original Message----- A small child turns to Ed, and exclaims: "Look! Look! A post from Susan !"... What should I do? I am not going to print the brochure on my printer but take it to Office Depot or Staples to have it printed. If it is printed elsewhere, can the margins be set to be closer to the edge of the paper? If you have your layout guides set to have a half-inch margin all around, and you have designed to these layout guides, you can simply trim off the half-inch from each side, and you will be able to fold it perfectly. However, most commercial printers are able to print to the very edge of the paper (by using slightly larger paper and trimming) - but talk to the printer you are going to user beforehand. Also, if you have to readjust the layout guides in your publication so that they are at the edges of the page once again, you will also need to do a little redesign work on the publication to make sure that everything balances into the new column sizes nicely. -- Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher http://www.mvps.org/the_nerd/ Before reading this message, view the disclaimer: http://mvps.org/the_nerd/disclaim.htm . |
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A small child turns to Ed, and exclaims: "Look! Look! A post from Susan
!"... The new employee tried to open my file on CD but had a read problem. Steve said that it was because Publisher tries to create a temporary file to make changes but can't with a CD. That explains why I have had problems with Publisher and CD's! Yes, you cannot save Publisher files direct to a CD (saving to a CD is a very bad idea in any software, as most software is designed to save to read/write media), and it is not recommended to open files directly from a CD as they will be read-only and Publisher does not always like to play ball when opening read-only files. It isn't too hard to copy the file to the local hard drive and open from there, though. According to a site I found, the Canon ImageRunner has a 0.18" margin all the way around the page. (And it is a *very* cool-looking printer. I have a "thing" for really big colour laser printers :-D) -- Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher http://www.mvps.org/the_nerd/ Before reading this message, view the disclaimer: http://mvps.org/the_nerd/disclaim.htm |
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