On Thursday 19 May 2005 09:35, Doug Thompson wrote: >Jonathon Coombes wrote: >> On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 21:21 -0600, Dave Pitts wrote: >>>Hello: >>> >>>After trying to print a "simple" envelope and reading the help, >>> docs and archived mail messages. I've got one thing to say about >>> OpenOffice's ability to print them... BooooOOOooGUS... Or is that >>> BOOOooooOOOgus. >>> >>>It's the ONLY thing left about MS Office that I use. Can't I JUST >>> enter the addresses and PRINT???? PLEEEEEEEASE!!! >> >> Hi Dave, >> >> There were known problems with certain printers for earlier >> versions of OpenOffice.org. Otherwise, have a look on the >> OOo Knowledgebase (mindmeld.cybersite.com.au) to see how the >> envelopes print. Otherwise, let us know some more detail >> regarding your problem - OS, OOo version, printer etc. >> >> Regards >> Jonathon > >*** Hot button alert! *** > >That only the world of printing from OOo were so calm and peaceful. >There ARE, not _were_, known problems printing envelopes on any > printer more complex than the HP, Sharp, Panasonic throwaways. I > own an HP4000 and a Xerox Phaser 860. Any version of OOo is > unusable on either of them for printing envelopes. Period. I'll > spare you the part about how printing(!) to the Xerox results in > the original document being trashed. > >I have tried every suggestion without consistent results. I have > filed several reports each with several examples that have produced > nothing more than a few well meaning replies on this list but no > fixes in the product. Fact is, the developers appear to be > clueless on the matter of printing envelopes and their lack of real > progress in this area suggests they are hoping for a miracle rather > than a design solution. In which regard, I wonder if a shaman from > the nearby Mescalero Apache reservation would be beneficial to my > case. Nothing else has worked. > >FWIW, I work around this glaring envelope printing deficiency by > using window envelopes and I have discontinued printing to the > Xerox from OOo. > >Doug
This is a hot button of mine too I'm afraid. So far, the only reliable way to print an envelope here is very time consuming in that I'll compose it with VIM, load that into the gimp, rotate it 90 degrees, and print from the gimp. If its not formatted right, repeat by adding more/less spaces/lines etc until everything is where it should be. FWIW, business sized envelopes need to be fed portrait style in my C82, hence the 90 degree rotate. I don't recall I've ever addressed an envelope here that didn't take an hour of screwing around to make it suitable for the USPO. It seems to me this could be fixed with a template that had text entry boxes in the correct locations, and which was then auto-rotated the required 90 degrees during the printing stage. I'd hack up a bash script to do all this, but frankly, no more often than I need to do it, its easier to see if the USPO can read my cryptographicly strong handwriteing. They've apparently got some pretty good decoders there, cause it usually gets to where I want to send it. :-) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
