On Wed 17 Aug 2016 at 11:33:58 (+0200), Federico Bruni wrote: > Hi folks > > I've tried printing a score with Evince and I see that it adds > margins on left, right, top and bottom and scales down the score > size to fit it on the page (line-width=17,40 cm). Is it a known > issue? > > lpr prints exactly what I see on the screen (line-width=19 cm). > > Adobe also adds some margins and scales down the score, slightly > less than Evince (line-width=17,90 cm)
In my book, that's a good argument not to print directly from applications but to a PDF queue instead, then print the PDF file directly with something you can trust, ie lpr or lp. I use a patched¹ copy of testpage.tex to calibrate the margins imposed by the printer hardware (and its CUPS driver), and a bash function that displays a nonce copy of any PDF file with a corresponding frame superimposed on it, so I know in advance of printing what I'm going to lose around the edges. My Margins-*.ily files take account of this. This test function is essential if you're stuck with US paper sizes. > If I give a score book to a printer, what should I expect? :-) You should discuss how the printer wants your output (presumably as PDF files) delivered to them. Their requirements and flexibilty vary. When I have A6 booklets printed with fairly small margins, I send A4 pages which have pairs of A6 pages in collated order (1,20 19,2 etc) duplicated at the top and bottom of each A4 sheet so that the gutter will be exactly the right size. The printers in Cirencester like that to be done for them. I also send a crib with A6 pages in the correct order, because my booklet's pages are unnumbered. OTOH sending A5 booklet files to my Swindon printer in that form would be a waste of time as the first thing they do is separate each page and then size and place them themselves. The margins in my file are irrelevant to them. One thing you do need to remember to discuss is where any blank pages appear (assuming you don't want to insert "this page intentionally left blank"). There's a tendency for printers to prefer leaving page 2 blank rather than the last page. But there's always lots to discuss in terms of paper quality, weight, brightness, colour etc anyway. Margin size is but a small part. ¹the patch is from http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/139951/pdflatex-testpage-produces-wrong-margins-for-a4paper and I'm not sure about being able to distribute a modified file. However, I document the patch within the printed output, as attached. Cheers, David.
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