Re: [libreoffice-users] printing non-standard page sizes

Hi Matthew,

On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 11:43 -0400, Matthew Monaco wrote:

> On 07/22/2011 08:17 AM, Regina Henschel wrote:
> > Hi Matthew,
> >
> > Matthew Monaco schrieb:
> > > I've always had a lot of trouble printing when I setup a custom page
> > > size in the page properties. It seems like the print dialog tries to
> > > find the best fit of the predefined page sizes.
> >
> > Yes. The printer "tells" what paper size it is able to handle. And LO searches
> > the best fitting from them. Unfortunately, the printer does not "tell" whether
> > this paper size is really available. So your printer might go into a waiting
> > mode and you have to enter the paper manually.
> >
> > Furthermore, I have no
> > > clue what the manual option is attempting to do.
> > >
> > > Is there something I'm missing here?
> >
> > The behavior is different for Writer, Calc, Draw and Impress. Generally there
> > are two ways to get fitting of page format and paper size. You can tell your
> > printer what to do. For example my printer can print with scaling 80%. Or you
> > can tell LO what to do. Especially Draw and Calc have a lot of options.
> >
> > You should describe a concrete task, if you want detailed help.
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Regina
>
> Ok, concrete task: printing envelopes (writer).
>
> Set page size to 6.3 x 4.7 (landscape).
>
> Type out address and return address.
>
> File > Print >> _select printer_ >> properties button >> paper tab
>
> No matter what I do here I cannot print correctly to a specified paper size. 
> Either the text becomes distorted or it prints outside the bounds of the page. 
> However, I know I'm capable of printing to this size just fine because I can 
> from Abiword, gedit, firefox, etc. They all use a standard print dialog.
>
> I like LO a lot more, but I'm forced to use Abiword whenever printing envelopes.

You could try setting the page size to the appropriate envelope size by
using FORMAT>>PAGE and under the Page Tab in the Paper Format section
select the correct Format in the Format list box.
-- 
Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com

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