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Subject:Re: Left Margins for e:mail messages From:Matt Ion <mion -at- DIRECT -dot- CA> Date:Fri, 19 May 1995 23:46:00 EDT
On Fri, 19 May 1995 15:26:00 -0600 you wrote:
>doesn't have margins that you can control? (BTW, on the rare occasions I print
>an EMail, mine get printed with enough of a margin for binding. It seems to be
>automatically done, as my printer doesn't start at the left edge of the paper,
>but rather .5"-.75" inches in from the left. It's ironic, really. I get the
>margin automatically, even though I don't bind them.)
I dunno about you, but my printer drivers allow me to determine what the
margins of the printed are of a page should be... and my mail program
basically just does a straight text dump to printer. Should be simple enough
with drivers supporting this feature to set it up with a 1" margin on the left
and just let the printer do the auto-wrapping.
In fact, under OS/2, I could just create a separate printer object, using the
same driver but with the margins set appropriately... then it's just a simple
matter of dragging the message I want printed out of the mail proggie and
dropping it on the appropriate printer.
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