On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 13:12 -0500, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
It would be very helpful if all participants in this listserv that have used their printers and OOo to print envelopes describe how they set up OOo to do it. The collection of these descriptions should be plugged into the documentation for OOo.
Please review pages 168-169 of http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/OOo1.x.x/user_guide.pdf
How can this section be improved?
Gerry, the documentation is just fine. The problem is that the *program* doesn't work right.
In the first place, it's repetitive and confusing at best -- downright silly at worst -- to have to specify the envelope size and orientation *three* times.
1) Insert Envelope dialog. 2) Envelope Page Style 3) Printer properties
If the probability of getting one of these wrong for any reason is, say.. 1 out of 4, then that's only a .75^3 = 42% chance of getting it all right.
I just spent quite a bit of time trying to get envelope printing to work and I got many different results. The only one I didn't ever hit on was the *correct* one. I think I finally got the orientation and size worked out between all the settings, but now only the return address will print.
I have *never* printed a useable envelope using OOo. Never.
This is with an Epson Color Stylus 880 on both Windows XP and Fedora Core 3. Epson is probably the best-supported printer line using CUPS and my model is neither particularly old nor new -- three years -- and fairly common.
FWIW, I tested this on 1.9.87.
Rod
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