kdmoen@watcgl.UUCP (06/22/87)
Steve (dorner@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu): >All this business of messing with margins depending on the printer >driver in use is driving me up a wall. > >It seems obvious to me that a word processor should NOT scale the >margins based on the printer in use. If I want 1" left and right >margins on the Imagewriter, I will want them on the Laserwriter, too. >It doesn't make a bit of difference to me that the Imagewriter can >print 1/8" closer to the edge of the paper than the Laserwriter. > >And if I transgress? If I exceed the sacred PRINTABLE AREA? Warn me; >chop off my text--I don't care, I can change the margins myself. But >Don't Tread on My Ruler! WriteNow works exactly as you have described. You can put text anywhere you want on a page. If you put text outside of the printable area, then it will warn you when you print it, and chop off the unprintable parts. The 'Show Spaces' command draws a rectangle on the page showing the printable area for the currently selected printer driver. In general, WriteNow is fully WYSIWYG, and just as easy to use as MacWrite. It supports multiple columns, multiple headers and footers, footnotes, spelling checking, side by side text and graphics, etc. It is very fast, and doesn't crash. -- Doug Moen (watmath!watcgl!kdmoen) University of Waterloo Computer Graphics Lab