Test page: Change to print margin rulers

[Michael Sweet]

Helge Blischke wrote:
> Michael Sweet wrote:
> 
>>David Forrest wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I'd like to suggest that the test page print a couple tails or rulers
>>>that go off the printable area, like TeX's test page, so that with
>>>the test page we can actually test the printable margins and perhaps
>>>change them.
>>>
>>>Tex's test page tries for a 1' margin and prints a inch/mm ruler
>>>trailing off of each margin into the unprintable area, so you can
>>>read directly the  uncenteredness and the actual printable area.
>>
>>There are several RFEs for improving the test page; one of them
>>includes adding a ruler, although at this point I'm not sure how
>>we will implement it (we can get the imageable area but not the
>>actual page size in a portable way...)
>>
> 
> ... but you could get the languagelevel value and, if it is >= 2,
> evaluate
> the contents of the dictionary returned by currentpagedevice.

Right, but even that won't work for some level 2+ devices if they
don't use the page device dictionary... :(

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