On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 15:02 +1000, Keith Bates wrote:
> On Thu, 19 May 2005 14:32:19 +1000
> Dave Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> 
> > 
> > Goodonya Keith. You're one of the lucky ones mate. I've been using OOo
> > since the first public beta (now using 1.9.100) and envelope printing
> > has never worked for me, even though I have followed every suggestion
> > ever posted on this list. 
> I'm using linux, OO1.1.3 and HP Deskjet 830C and it all works as it
> should. I rarely do it though as I don't write that many letters.
> 
> So tell me where it fails for you. Can you not create the envelope?
> Will it just not print?
> 
> IIRC last time I did an envelope the return address was printed off the
> envelope, but you just had to adjust the positioning. Otherwise no
> problems
> 
> Keith

OK I retract part of my previous claim about this not being an OS
problem, since it appears that there has been some progress with OOo
1.9.100 Windows edition. I don't use Windows for my day to day business,
but I do keep one box loaded with W2K (isolated from the LAN & WAN) for
customer support issues. I just installed OOo 1.9.100 on the W2K box and
successfully printed a DL envelope on a reliable old Epson Stylus Color
760.

However, if I run the same test with the same printer on a new SuSE 9.3
box the sender gets printed, but addressee doesn't. It does get printed
if I move the addressee text box over to the left of the envelope, which
is an unacceptable position for most postal services. This is the same
as my past experience of printing envelopes from OOo on printers from a
number of different manufacturers, with 2 or 3 different Linux distros.

Until the same fix appears in the Linux edition of OOo, I will have to
continue with my envelope workaround of setting up templates for my
commonly used envelope sizes and printing them out as A4 sheets.

Dave

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