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

[Jim Broughton]

This did not work. It is what I tried first and about a 4 or 5 more
times because my brain did not seem to register the fact that it just
was not going to work this way.

Jim



Michael S. Mikowski wrote:
> 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
>>     
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