[texhax] Margins/Cropmarks [was ... Pagination ...]

[rwd Nickalls]

Message text written by "pierre.mackay"

> The one way I have found to control placement on 
>the page (where this is a possibility) is to offer PDF output already 
>clipped to exactly the dimensions of the page, with David Fuchs's 
>classic one inch down and one inch right margins explicitly suppressed.
>
>dvips --> ps2pdf does this effectively and reliably and I have had no 
>serious disasters since I began submitting pre-cropped PDF (the crop 
>marks are left in the DVI file, but they fall one point outside the 
>limits of the cropped output).

I find that dvips--> ps2pdf output seems to /raise/ the text slightly
 relative to the paper (reducing the top white space) 
 when compared to using pdfTeX (which copies exactly the dvips output)
why is this?? 

Dick Nickalls
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