[OS X TeX] Borderless (or almost borderless) printing

[Alan Munn]

At 6:07 PM +0100 10/27/09, <ewan.Delanoy at math.unicaen.fr> wrote:
>           Hello all,
>
>   in my (admittedly limited) experience with
>  (WYSIWYG or not) text processors, it is usually impossible
>to have control over the whole of the printed page : whenever
>you try to put something too near the edge, texts and images
>get unpredictably displaced.
>
>
>  So my question is : if "doing what you want" on the full sheet is
>impossible,
>what is the next best solution ? What is the largest subrectangle of the
>sheet where LaTeX (or TikZ) commands have a normal, "non-edgy" behaviour ?

As Herb says, the restriction is likely to be in your printer, not in 
LaTeX.  The following document creates lines all the way to the edge 
of the page, but it can't be printed as such, because printers 
usually have about 1/4" (or slightly less) area which is unreachable 
by the printing mechanism. (If someone knows why the blank page at 
the beginning shows up, I'd like to know.)

If you really want things to the edge of the page, you would need to 
print to a stocksize larger than the page you want, and then trim it. 
(Probably not what you want to hear.)

Alan

\documentclass[letter]{article}
\usepackage[margin=0in]{geometry}
\usepackage{tikz}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\noindent\begin{tikzpicture}[x=1in,y=1in]
\draw (0,0) -- (8.5,11);
\draw (0,11) -- (8.5,0);
\draw (4.25,0) -- (4.25,11);
\draw (0,5.5) -- (8.5,5.5);
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}
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