On or about 6/7/2005 4:53 PM, Ed Zollars, CPA penned the following:
> Sales wrote:
>
>> *Hi there,*
>>
>> * *
>>
>> *One of our clients says he is going nuts trying to print envelopes in
>> Open Office. Can you point us in the right direction?*
>>
> Can you tell us which version of OpenOffice.org you are using, the
> operating system they are running under and the printer they are using?
> Generally the problem is that you have to walk through a number of steps
> to get envelopes to print correctly. I'll summarize the Windows issue
> using an HP laser printer that I'm using.
>
> 1. Go File->Insert Envelope
>
> 2. Click the Format tab
>
> 3. On the "Size" drop down list select the appropriate envelope size (A
> US Env. 10" in my case)
>
> 4. Click the Printer tab
>
> 5. Select the proper orientation for the envelope based on how your
> printer feeds an envelope (for an HP LJ 1200, it's a center feed with
> the short side entering the printer first)
>
> 6. Select the "Setup" button
>
> 7. In the resulting dialog box, Select the "Properties" button to get
> to the printer driver
>
> 8. You need to tell the driver you are using the size paper you told
> OpenOffice.org about in step 3. This varies based on the printer. For
> the LaserJet 1200 PCL driver, you click the "Advanced" Button at the
> bottom of the screen, on the next screen select the paper size
> ("Envelope 10" in my case), click OK, OK again and OK one more time.
>
> 9. Now you can go back to the Envelope tab and fill in your proper
> address.
> 10. I then select New Doc--and I have an envelope that will print in my
> printer. I make it a new document because I knew I was going to now
> save it as a template so I didn't have to go through this one more time
> <grin>, but now could just use File->New->Templates and Documents,
> select my envelope template, and have all the above set up.
>
> There is no question this is more complex and error prone than it is in
> "that other" Office product. The key difference is that, unlike in
> Microsoft Word, OpenOffice.org doesn't seem to get word to the printer
> driver that the paper size is now the envelope size.
I have found that none of the major word processors (WP, Word, OO) do
envelopes very easlily. I have been using a separate program called
"Labels Unlimited" version 2.0 which I bought years ago from Parson's
Technology. Works great on envelopes of ANY size.
--
Ed
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