Re: Kate/kwrite printconfig defaults

On 14-08-19 14:46, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>>
>> On Tuesday, 2019-08-13 at 14:51 +0200, JJM de Faber wrote:
>>
>>>>> Right answer, regional settings was the right place to change inches
>>>>> in mm.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am stil looking how to change the default for the margins.
>> May be hard coded on the printer definition, system wide.
>>
>>> No, only kate and kwrite have this size fixed default margins.
>>> If its hardcoded its in kate/kwrite.
>>> Hardcoded default margins in a programmers tool ,I can't believe that.
> Maybe I misunderstood the problem. I'm thinking rather of my experience
> with tools like LibreOffice: I can change the margins but not beyond
> what the printer itself defines.
>
> As you talk of 0.14 inches, that looks to me as a printer default. For a
> programmer editor, the margin would be in chars, not inches.
>
> Could you say where exactly you see the margin size, in kate, for
> instance? And what type of file are you editing (it sets the mode).
>
> Because I just edited a plain text file and I see no margin. However,
> when going to print there is indeed a margin which is set in print
> preview, page setup, and in my case it is 4.35 mm or 0.17" (and can not
> be decreased). This is indeed a printer margin, what kate thinks is the
> minimal margin of my printer.
>
> Looking at LO writer, it thinks the printer margin is 0.42 cm, which is
> very similar to what Kate thinks, although it allows me to override (and
> then the printer itself cuts when actually printing).
>
Wrong discussion, a simple ascii file has no formatting, I can set any 
margin from 0 to whole page and the printer prints exactly as ordered.

I only want to change the useless default !!!

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