                      PrintEdit
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The !PrintEdit application allows you to create new
printer definition files for use with the printer
manager application !Printers.

See the RISC OS Applications Guide for detailed
information on how to use !PrintEdit.

Additional Notes
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"Paper X offset:" and "Paper Y offset:" fields.
These two numbers should be set to the amount of
paper that has already gone past the print head
before the printer can print anything at all.
Thus they represent the section of the paper upon
which it is physically impossible to print.

The "Graphics margins" in the "Paper size" window in
!Printers on the other hand are that section of the
paper upon which you do not wish to be allowed
to print. Note that if the "Top" and "Left" graphics
margins are set to less than the "Paper Y offset:" and
"Paper X offset:" respectively and you actually try to
print something right up to the top left of the margins,
then the image on the paper will be shifted down and to
the right of where it is supposed to be, since you have
tried to get the printer to print on the section of the
paper that it physically cannot print on. Also note that
the paper offsets are allowed to be negative, which they
would need to be for a printer whose natural initial
print position is above the top and/or to the left of
the top left corner of the paper.


NB PrintEdit cannot be used with PostScript printers.
There are no paper offsets for Postscript you're supposed
to calibrate the printer itself.

If you change the paper offsets in the main window, you
then have to open up every graphics resolution one by one
and click OK in each of them, and then save the new
printer definition file. This is because the paper offsets
are stored in the per graphics resolution data (in pixels),
and the graphics resolution data is encoded when OK is
clicked in the graphics window.
You can also type in negative paper offsets, which may be
needed for a printer whose initial print position was above
and to the left of the top left corner of the paper.
