I am having multiple problems with page layout. I want to design a document that will eventually be printed on pages 152.4 X 228.6 mm, with margins and a gutter on the left for recto and right for verso (normal allowance for binding). No problem there. I am printing proofs on A4. Whatever I do I cannot get my printer to render the 12pt as 12 pt and when I select 'apply to whole document' and save it, on accessing it again it always says 'this section'. To add to that, when I change the 'Outside' margin it does not change but the inside one does! Ideally I'd like to print final size with margins and gutter exactly as I request and with incidental white space on the A4 proofs. And yes, A4 is bigger than the finished size I want, otherwise I would expect odd happenings!
EDIT: Right now I am trying with a new blank document, and it is working fine. So I suspect many changes may have corrupted the document I was working on. Any thought you experts?