[Scribus] Bug or Feature?

[Craig Bradney]

On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 00:29, Paul Davidson wrote:
> >>>>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.

Well, my comments were not considering users who need bleed
functionality. As of todays CVS that Franz just uploaded there is now an
option in Preferences to have margins but to not cut off the output.

Craig
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