Add a margin at page top, shrinking

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Add a margin at page top, shrinking

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What action will add a margin at page top, /minimally/ shrinking the content to fit the remainder?

I've failed to find any settings of Resize Pages that will do this.

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For that purpose you can try to use the "Merge Pages" feature will settings similar to those shown below:
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Re: Add a margin at page top, shrinking

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> For that purpose you can try to use the "Merge Pages" feature

No wonder I failed. :)

Could you suggest to the designer a more discoverable affordance? Thanks.

> will settings similar to those shown below:

Thanks. That worked:
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PS Typing a number here fails to update the preview:
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Please pass on my suggestion this be remedied.

Workaround: TAB.
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Hello, chrisjj

We can certainly pass that on for consideration, as for the text entry, yes, the preview is not updated until you finalize editing that field, either with tab, or by clicking away from it, for the time being this is intended.

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TrackerSupp-Daniel wrote: Wed May 24, 2023 10:30 pm this is intended.
May I ask the source of that info? This behaviour does nothing but disadvantage the user.
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Hi, chrisjj

From the development team leader: "These particular settings can be computationally expensive". when there is only a small document is is not much impact, but especially if a document is large or complex then this could really slow things down even for the preview.

I hope that explanation helps.

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Paul - Tracker Supp wrote: Mon Jun 05, 2023 6:09 pm this could really slow things down even for the preview
Multithreading is there to avoid that.
Paul - Tracker Supp wrote: Mon Jun 05, 2023 6:09 pm I hope that explanation helps.
It does. Thanks.
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:)
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