At 15:54 11/10/2008 -0400, Helen Etters wrote:
I tried Brian Barker's step by step process for a document that I
frequently have to fill in.
Where Brian says "Note that the background image of the form will
not print" I thought that must refer to some esoteric artifact and I
ignored it, because, after all, what good is the form if it won't print.
I understood the previous enquiry to refer to existing printed forms,
where the user wanted to put these through a printer and have just
the necessary information added in the boxes - just as he would have
done by hand previously. You wouldn't want a second, poorly
registered, low-fidelity copy of the background form to be printed
over the existing form in that case.
To my dismay I discovered that he means just exactly what he
says! So my form is useless. Are there any workarounds on this? I
have a form that I have to fill in
(and print) several times a month. Maybe there's a way to get
around the problem with printing?
It's not a problem: the answer was constructed carefully to be what
the previous enquirer needed. But you must be doing things
differently, and need the original appearance of the form to print
(along with the added data) on plain paper. That's easy too. I said:
"Go to Format | Picture... (or right-click | Picture...) and change
some settings. [...] On the Options tab, under Properties, remove
the tick from Print. (That's the clever bit.)"
It's clever only because that was what was needed in the earlier
case. If you need the image to print, miss out that part and leave
that box ticked. If you have that box ticked but the image still
doesn't print, make sure that Tools | Options... | OpenOffice.org
Writer | Print | Contents | Graphics is ticked.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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