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

Hi Matthew,

Matthew Monaco schrieb:
> 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.

Printing with Linux is different from printing with Windows, so please 
ask the Linux experts how to proper install the printer. Sometimes OOo 
is more sensible against wrong settings than other applications. I have 
only Windows and cannot help you with that.

Printing an envelope is a very special thing. If the straight print does 
not work, you need a trick. The page size is set to your default paper 
size (likely A4 or letter). The position of the letter on the paper is 
set by the margins in the page layout. The envelope wizards tries to 
generate such a page layout. But it might fail and then you have to 
figure it out by yourself. Printers differ in the way they handle 
envelopes, so it might help to find someone, who owns the same printer 
as you.

Kind regards
Regina


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