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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Page background color. Does not cover the entire page.
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:38:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E83211.20706@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3b4b12310904161554q5c395434w6002690f34a711ca@mail.gmail.com>

Curiouslearn wrote:
> Hi,
> I created the attached PDF file using ConTeXt. As you can see I have a green
> background, which covers the whole page. However, when I took it to the
> printer today and he printed two copies for me, there was some white space
> left at four ends. The amount of space above, below, to the left and to the
> right was different. Here is my preamble. Can you suggest what I can do so
> that the whole page has the chosen green background color.

-- print on larger paper and cut off the edges
-- make your layout a bit smaller and cut off the edges

only professional print will print to the edge and even then ...

(normally you will use oversized paper and bleeding)

Hans

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-17  7:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-16 22:54 Curiouslearn
2009-04-17  7:11 ` Yanrui Li
2009-04-17  7:38 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2009-04-17 11:22   ` John Devereux
2009-04-17 23:18     ` Curiouslearn

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