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(In reply to Jonathan Watt [:jwatt] from comment #5)
> Also, the unwritable margins are for the sheet of physical paper, not for pages.

True.

>  We should have our own separation between pages

I'm not so sure about this (it's a bit subtle). Anyway, I filed bug 1669910 on the pages-per-sheet aspects here, with a few notes about other reference impls & what we might want to do.

(In reply to Jonathan Watt [:jwatt] from comment #4)
> I don't think the unwritable margins are the issue here. Zero for them seems an accurate representation of where we can draw to and I think we want to allow content to be drawn right up to the edges of the sheet if the user chooses "None" in the Margins menu.

Fair enough, true.

> Something similar [i.e. a little automatic breathing room] for headers and footers seems desirable.

Agreed. I think we should probably morph this bug here into "hey let's not draw the header/footer right at the bleeding-edge-extreme bounds of where we think we could possibly draw.

(In reply to Jonathan Watt [:jwatt] from comment #5)
> Also, the unwritable margins are for the sheet of physical paper, not for pages.

True.

>  We should have our own separation between pages

I'm not so sure about this (it's a bit subtle). Anyway, I filed bug 1670068 on the pages-per-sheet aspects here, with a few notes about other reference impls & what we might want to do.

(In reply to Jonathan Watt [:jwatt] from comment #4)
> I don't think the unwritable margins are the issue here. Zero for them seems an accurate representation of where we can draw to and I think we want to allow content to be drawn right up to the edges of the sheet if the user chooses "None" in the Margins menu.

Fair enough, true.

> Something similar [i.e. a little automatic breathing room] for headers and footers seems desirable.

Agreed. I think we should probably morph this bug here into "hey let's not draw the header/footer right at the bleeding-edge-extreme bounds of where we think we could possibly draw.