-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2008-03-23 at 03:59 -0700, Jerry Houston wrote:
As long as we're this far off topic already, I'll venture a question as well. I needed to print an envelope yesterday for the first time with OpenOffice Writer, and I wasted about ten envelopes before I got one that's acceptable (although it still really needs the addresses moved over a bit).
Ouch. What I do is test with plain paper. If need be, I cut it to size with scissors. I have been burned your way before with every single word processing program I tried since Wordstar in the eighties. And after I got plain paper "faked envelopes" working, the real one failed in unexpected ways, like the... what do you call it... the part of the envelope that does the closing, sticking in the printer and breaking, or the envelope twisting or jamming sideways in the tractor mechanism. It wouldn't be a bad idea to cross your fingers or touch wood or wear a penguin tee shirt :-P
With Microsoft Office, envelope printing is based on the printer type, as specified by the driver that's in use. When I select my LaserJet 1022, for example, or my DeskJet 712C, I don't need to specify each time all the details of the envelope feed, whether it inserts on the left, right, or center, or how much offset from the edge is needed. It already knows those things, because it knows what printer I'm using.
Will I need to manually change and test the spacing and alignment every time I print an envelope on a particular printer, or will Writer remember that information for that printer after I've finally gotten it working right?
The trick I use is to save a document named "envelope" with the sizes and tricks (and notes in yellow explaining it all), and every time I need to print an envelope I open it, modify, and save with another name (envelope - somebody address) or discard it. Maybe I should learn to save as a template. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH5lqxtTMYHG2NR9URAv7bAKCBknZnN/FX/7TEh/hfWSmmnmrJKACcDXEg OHGIzpDLXvpOwKKJYcOsQGg= =M36u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org