[Scribus] Bug or Feature?

[Paul Davidson]

>>>>There are also Distance of Text settings on the shapes tab of the
>>>>Properties Palette. You might want to try setting them instead of
>>>>reducing the border size.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Correct me if I'm wrong but I think what Rolf means is that the page margins 
>>>determine your print boundries. Anything outside of the margins will not be 
>>>printed. So if your left margin is 2", anything within that 2" strip will not 
>>>be printed. If a graphic overflows into that margin, it will be chopped off. 
>>>I found this out the hard way so now I set all of my page margins to 0 and 
>>>just use the guides instead.
>>>
>>
>>That is what I gathered from the original post, as well as my personal 
>>experience and work-around.  I think my biggest complaint about this 
>>particular misfeature is that I cannot set items outside of the 
> 
> 
> Its not a misfeature really.. a margin shouldnt be printed outside of,
> and Scribus doesnt let you.

I would respectfully disagree. For creating documents with bleed (which 
is every document I make), you *have* to print outside the margin. So, 
as others have pointed out, the margin feature is essentially useless 
and we just have to use guides instead.

Paul Davidson