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Sane printing from TextEdit
Authored by: thehyperone on Jan 10, '07 01:48:17PM
I read the whole aforementioned thread to it's completion and can't believe how much work everyone is going through to change a document's margin. Editing the source code and recompiling an entire application just to change a preference? Editing raw RTF source code to create templates? Just as bad. You're all starting to sound like you work for Microsoft.

In TextEdit, choose Page Setup from the File menu. Under Settings:, choose Custom Paper Size. Click the new button and it'll allow you to change the paper size as well as set all four margins independently. You can create quite a few margin-presets and reuse them to your heart's content.

Use this in conjunction with the original hint to set your margins.

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Sane printing from TextEdit
Authored by: krusty76 on Jan 10, '07 02:12:05PM

Um, I've tried this "simple" solution many times in the past. I just verified on 10.4.8 ... and setting the margins via Page Setup... are completely ignored by TextEdit. Go ahead and try it. It's an exercise in futility.



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