Re: Margins outside printable area

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Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:25:51 -0700 from John Smith <jsmith@xxxxxxx>:
> I have a document that was orinally in PDF format but has been converted
> to RTF.
> Some of the spacing and alignment were not correct after the conversion
> but I corrected them manually. Problem is when I try to print the
> document I get a message, "Margins of section xx are set outside
> printable area" and continue/quit
> option box.
>
> Is there a ;simple' way to fix this?

Yes, change your margins so that the document doesn't contain text
outside the printable area. Apparently your manual margins aren't
right.

The printable area varies by printer as well as by paper size,
neither of which you told us.

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