[mdlug] Printing a lousy #$%^&* envelope.

[Michael S. Mikowski]

Ran into this today with my wife, who was getting frustrated.

She was trying to create an envelope use the 'insert envelope' option in 
writer.  This proved buggy.  This on an hp6310, which has excellent support in 
Linux (which is why I bought it!)

Here is what worked for OOo 2.4.  YMMV:
0. Skip 'insert envelope'.  Simply create a new document.

1. Pick format->page->page tab and under Format pick Env. #10, choose 
Landscape orientation.

2. Fill in your envelope

3. Print envelope.  In the printing dialog, click on 'Properties', and:
x paper size should show Env. #10
x leave orientation as protrait
x leave duplex as off
! On Paper Tray, pick envelope feeder.

Press ok and print.  Hopefully this will work for you!

Cheers, Mike





On Tuesday 24 March 2009 18:55:33 Jim Broughton wrote:
> l failure. I am quite angry.
>  My printing system consists of a Brother 5150D postscript laser
> printer accessed over the network via a netgear printserver.
>  The printer has 1 tray for 8.5x11-14 paper and a fold out manual feed tray
> for envelopes and the like. It never fails to print 8.5x11 documents some
> even quite complex and duplexed as well.
>   Try as I might I cannot get this system to print a lousy #10 commercial
> envelope. I have used Openoffice 2.4, 3.0, Koffice writer, Adobe PDF reader
> (after sending the output to a pdf from OOO or Koffice writer).  I have
> tried
> printing it stright up with the selection for the printer set to #10
> envelope,
> I have tried setting margins, rotating 360deg in 90deg incriments. Nothing.
> The closest it came was Adobe PDF reader put something on the envelope but
> whoever programmed the PDF converter for KDE and OOO did not force
> embeded/outlined fonts so it just prints boxes where the letters should be.
> This sucks. It should be a no brainer. Anyone else have problems with
> printing envelopes under Linux?
>
> Jim