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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: Re: [FTST] FTST - VCF - blank pages not eliminated
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2001 17:06:35 -0500
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Richard Brogger wrote:

> Beth reported that pages 1, 3 and 5 contained all the data. Pages 2
> and 4 were blank. The pages are in a 1 x 5 pattern. It appears to me
> that there is enough data to fill the three pages but it does not
> leave enough space between the boxes and the edge of the page. If VCF
> is set for 10 pixels between boxes, maybe 1 pixel is on the blank
> sheet. Is that a possible reason? If it is, how can Beth confirm it
> and/or correct it?

>From the screen shot Beth posted, you can see that the chart is in a 2-wide by three high layout. The boxes to the right of page 3 come very close to the page edge, and the existence of the page brake lines that Resize to Components won't remove indicates that VCF "sees" something on page 4. I've suggested to Beth that she nudge the two boxes in question a tad to the left, and I don't know if she's tried that. My other suggestion was to look closely at page 4 to see if a one or two pixel wide
edge of the shadow appears on it - I've gotten that myself and it's not easy to see that anything is missing when you look at the page with most of the box on it.

As Robin has pointed out, looking at the margin on the printed page may be misleading, because the printer driver may not allow printing to the edge of the page even if the printer does - I have this problem with the "latest" driver for my HP 720C inkjet. If there is a bit of the shadow on page 4, I would think this is and issue of the printer driver not recognizing the margin correctly. If there is really nothing printing on page 4, then I would think it's VCF insisting on leaving some room
beyond the visible elements.

Terry Reigel



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