At 13:05 06/02/2009 -0700, Philipp Giddings wrote:
I would have to say that a template for the labels should be on the correct page size.
I don't want to be argumentative here, but I suspect the OpenOffice designers would say that the page size is perfectly satisfactory, in that it needs merely to extend over the printable area of the labels and have the correct margins on the two edges that matter - whereby the image will be aligned. You are asking that the page size should be the same as the paper size, and this - in the way that OpenOffice thinks - is not necessary. Consider, for example, the printing of a brochure, where the page is one size and the paper is different (exactly twice the area), and the page is generally in portrait orientation whilst the paper will be in landscape. Mind you, it happens that I don't see why it could be of any advantage for the page size to be different from the (known) paper size for label templates.
I don't think you have said what printer and driver you are using, so no-one can suggest (further than I already have) how you might set the paper size correctly for this to work with the existing page size of the label template. Clearly the OpenOffice designers must think that this can be done somehow. But if it genuinely cannot, then there would be a problem.
But you have apparently found a workaround, so for you this is - happily - academic.
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