Change PageSize option from Mac PDE?

[Aaron Sher]

Can you expand a bit on #1? How does one "choose between regular and borderless"? If I pick US Letter in the Page Setup dialog for, say, TextEdit, I don't see any borderless options.

Unfortunately, at the moment we don't have source for the filter that actually does the PDF-to-raster conversion. This may limit our ability to set cupsBorderlessScalingFactor.

Thanks,
   Aaron

> Aaron,
>
> On May 17, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Aaron Sher <asher at vanteon.com> wrote:
> > ...
> > 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:
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> 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.
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> #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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