Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Knute Johnson Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Java printing Margins Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 11:41:41 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <6eo8p9lrdvp70st73bhbj8c3ughv5slbaj@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 18:41:41 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="aba33539224e5c782fe0c4053f7756fd"; logging-data="20213"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+StWgI9SDs5e6/ZRSQofPC" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:1BKcyNqGGU2eDKMhZi8hYLSGOt4= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:28694 On 6/9/2014 09:10, Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 07:26:29 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote: > >> To be honest I default the margins to 0.3 inches for my printer. But >> select PageFormat from the File menu and you can set the margins. > > Oddly, I can't set anything apart from 25.4 mm margins on your program. I > can set one of the margins how I like, but a soon as I tab to the next > (or just click on it) the one I just changed reverts to 25.4 mm. I was > going to see what happened if I printed an image with zero width margins > all round. > > PS: and OTT: Knute, I've just been watching a BBC program about D-Day > technology, which showed shots of Horsa troop-carrying gliders landing, > seen from the ground. I don't think I've even seen such steep approaches > (the Horsa could manage a 1:2 approach angle) or such low level and > sudden rotations into the flare. The film is here: > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b045gr8m/the-science-of-dday > > though I don't know if you'll be able to see it as the BBC often limits > viewing the the UK. However, I'm told there are a lot of videos of Horsas > on U-tube. Well, there are, but most are pretty bad. This is one of the > better ones: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HBZbOnmUPw > > The BBC video is blocked. The Horsa with those big flaps would really come down. Better than the Waco CG4As. My folks had a friend who was a glider troop. He was training in the the northeast US somewhere when the war ended. He told me that during training he never "landed" in a glider. They were always destroyed when they came to a stop. He wasn't looking forward to actually being in a combat landing. Have you see this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsAKWma3zbY -- Knute Johnson