Re: Margin measurements in QuarkXPress
Re: Margin measurements in QuarkXPress
- Subject: Re: Margin measurements in QuarkXPress
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 17:15:01 +1000
On 9/7/01 4:32 PM +1000, David Lloyd, email@hidden, wrote:
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When returning the margin measurements of a QuarkXPress document, often the
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script (my ones anyway) returns a value which is different from the value
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shown in the QuarkXPress Master pages dialog, i.e. where this dialog would
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show 15, the script returns a value of 14.824... This seems to occur on
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script generated documents only (?). The error seems to err by a constant of
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0.176 everytime. I was wondering is there a fix for this without having to
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resort to a round/rounding to nearest command?
I'm not sure where you're seeing the problem. But if you set the left and
right margins of the default document to 10 pts, the master page of the
document, and pages made from it, will have margins of 9.5 pts. The
workaround is to set the margins of the _document_ as you create it.
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden