[cups.general] Change PageSize option from Mac PDE?

[Michael Sweet]

Aaron,

On May 17, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Aaron Sher <asher at vanteon.com> wrote:
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> Now, I don't want to introduce a whole new set of Borderless XXX page sizes in the PPD and force the user to pick one of those; I just want to have a checkbox in the PDE that puts us into borderless mode.

Your two options are:

1. Add borderless page sizes
2. Make all page sizes borderless and provide an option that controls the actual margins.

The OS X paper selection UI already handles #1 properly - you see "US Letter" and then get to choose between regular and borderless.  This is actually the preferred implementation on OS X and allows you to specify overspray via the cupsBorderlessScalingFactor property.

#2 will also work but has some bad side-effects, namely that applications do not know what your actual non-borderless margins are and may draw outside the imageable area.  This is most problematic if your top/bottom margins are more than 1/2 inch and side margins are more than 1/4 inch.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair