Weird margins on printing

[sartris]

Environment

Version - .47.7, .47.8, .47.9

Windows 10, Java 8 update 261

Description

Since .47.7, printing either to my printer or PDF (including Adobe PDF, Microsoft PDF, and the XPS writer) with very large margins - a full inch. If you print in .47.6, the issue does not exist. I've included a PDF of each to show the difference.

Archer 47.6.pdf
Archer 47.7.pdf
Archer 47.8.pdf
Archer 47.9.pdf

[neoancient]

What are the margins set to in the print dialog?

[sartris]

there are no options for margins anywhere that i can find. the only thing i found that altered the behavior was a "borderless printing" toggle - but that only eliminated the top margin and kept the sides with the scaled-down sheet. What's more, .47.6 does not have an issue (nor does the most recent stable release).

this is not the native export to pdf that was recently added (which works fine), but the external print-to-file drivers. these mimic what happens when I use actual paper to print sheets.

[neoancient]

The change from 0.47.6 to 0.47.7 is that it allows the user to specify the margins, which were always fixed before.

The expected behavior is that you will get a cross-platform dialog that looks something like this:

The margins are set on the Page Setup tab:

MML should be setting these to 0.25" by default.

[sartris]

ah ha. i see the problem now - i don't get that dialog. this is what i see. i don't get any margin options in the advanced settings either.

[neoancient]

After checking with others, this appears to be platform dependent, which is a bit frustrating since the documentation specifically says this is the cross-platform version of the dialog. It's very difficult for me to troubleshoot OS-specific behavior since I only run Linux, but I do have another approach in mind that I think will take care of it and I can get other members of the dev team to test on Windows.

[sartris]

ok, i figured it would be something like that. i can stop combing the settings for a fix.