Hi Matthew, On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 11:43 -0400, Matthew Monaco wrote:
> On 07/22/2011 08:17 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: > > Hi Matthew, > > > > Matthew Monaco schrieb: > >> I've always had a lot of trouble printing when I setup a custom page > >> size in the page properties. It seems like the print dialog tries to > >> find the best fit of the predefined page sizes. > > > > Yes. The printer "tells" what paper size it is able to handle. And LO > > searches > > the best fitting from them. Unfortunately, the printer does not "tell" > > whether > > this paper size is really available. So your printer might go into a waiting > > mode and you have to enter the paper manually. > > > > Furthermore, I have no > >> clue what the manual option is attempting to do. > >> > >> Is there something I'm missing here? > > > > The behavior is different for Writer, Calc, Draw and Impress. Generally > > there > > are two ways to get fitting of page format and paper size. You can tell your > > printer what to do. For example my printer can print with scaling 80%. Or > > you > > can tell LO what to do. Especially Draw and Calc have a lot of options. > > > > You should describe a concrete task, if you want detailed help. > > > > Kind regards > > Regina > > > > Ok, concrete task: printing envelopes (writer). > > Set page size to 6.3 x 4.7 (landscape). > > Type out address and return address. > > File > Print >> _select printer_ >> properties button >> paper tab > > No matter what I do here I cannot print correctly to a specified paper size. > Either the text becomes distorted or it prints outside the bounds of the > page. > However, I know I'm capable of printing to this size just fine because I can > from Abiword, gedit, firefox, etc. They all use a standard print dialog. > > I like LO a lot more, but I'm forced to use Abiword whenever printing > envelopes. > You could try setting the page size to the appropriate envelope size by using FORMAT>>PAGE and under the Page Tab in the Paper Format section select the correct Format in the Format list box. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
