Re: Margins

[Michael Ross <michael e ross gmail com>]

How can a person know if they are staying within the margins?

Actually can't draw outside the margins - isn't that odd?  A bit of a paradigm shift.

The page breaks show how the Dia will be divided up if you cover many sheets.  The margins are not printed, so they are not shown.   If you wish to keep the Dia on one sheet work within the page break lines of one rectangle.  Do this by scaling and zooming.

You can experiment with this and prove it to yourself:

Set the page to Letter (8.5x11 inches).

Set the margins to 0.5 on all four sides.

The page breaks will be 7.5" x 10".  8.5 minus 2 1/2" margins across the width and 11" minus 2 1/2" margins from top to bottom.

The ruler will be in cm if you don't set it otherwise.  You can vonvert the cm to inchaes and it will work out.

If you change the page scale the ruler will be different.  Make it 100% to see the correct dimensions.

I just did this and I get a ruler that shows roughly 19cm wide by 26 cm high.

19 x 0.3937 = 7.467

26 x 0.3937 = 10.23

You can actually ignore the page breaks entirely until you want to print, then scale and marginate until you are happy with it.

What is surprising is that for Dia a segmented plot is easy - almost the default unless you work to avoid it.

There you have it.

M

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Tech Support Department <tech frontrowcomputer com> wrote:

In the preferences settings, there is a place to set page break colors.  It is set as a dark blue, which is assumed to be the dark blue lines on the canvas.  However, there is no visual relationship between the settings of margins in the page setup with the displayed lines.

If the user sets the margins at .500 inches, then the display does not show them.  How can a person know if they are staying within the margins?

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