Re: [SLE] Envelopes in OpenOffice

From: Carlos E. R. (robin1.listas_at_tiscali.es)
Date: 10/26/03

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    The 03.10.26 at 10:22, Keith Powell wrote:

    > Brian and Carlos, it looks as though I will have to follow your suggestions
    > and get a work-around by making a document with the correct paper size and
    > margins for the DL size. Then use this as a template each time.

    As I have to feed envelopes manually one by one, because often they get
    stuck, making a template is not such a big problem for me ;-)

    > It's a bit of
    > a nuisance as I would have thought that such an important part of OpenOffice
    > writer would have worked correctly. I wonder if there is an openoffice
    > mailing list? I must check. If there is, perhaps it has been brought up on
    > there to the attention of the developers.

    Maybe it is also a problem with cups and OO working together. Maybe it
    works only with certain types of printers, who knows...

    My problem was that no matter what I did, it printed "vertically". I'll
    paste here what I posted last January, for reference:

    --- Text insert begin ----------
    Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 21:13:02 +0100 (CET)
    From: Carlos E. R.
    Subject: [SLE] How on earth do I print landscape envelopes (OO)?

    My printer (canon 4000) only takes envelopes horizontally (landscape). So,
    I want to print DL (22*11cm) size envelopes using OpenOffice. If I set
    page format to "portrait", it says that it is 11cm wide, it is wrong. If I
    set it to "Landscape", the foolish thing rotates the page and prints out
    of the envelope:

      +-------------------+
      | * |
      | ** |
      | *** |
      | *** |
      +-***---------------+
        * *
        * *

    So, I go and set user size, 22 cm width * 11cm high, portrait. The preview
    is correct, it prints in the right direction, but... the print stop at the
    middle of each line! The damned thing says it knows better than me, and
    that the page ends there.

      +-------------------+
      | * |
      | ****** |
      | ****** |
      | |
      +-------------------+
              ^_ print ends there.

    Of course, I have also played with the sizes in the printer settings in
    the File menu, and they are utterly ignored. I tell the damn thing I have
    DL portrait or landscape, but it is as if I'm talking to the wall.

    I can not win :-(

    The only way I can convince it to print correctly is saying I have a 22*22
    square page, as portrait, and add an 11 cm bottom margin. Anyone knows how
    to do it "the proper way"?

    I'm using SuSE 8.1 with CUPS. StarOffice 5.2 with SuSE 7.3 did get it
    right.
    --- Text insert end ----------

    Problem remains with SuSE 8.2, of course. 

    -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson
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