Re: [libreoffice-users] writer: business cards w/ tables - duplicate cells

I use to make a lot of specialty business cards and odd size labels for 
people.  I found that many of the .doc templates did not work well with 
LO, or even Word 2003.  I had to adjust the margins to fit the printer's 
needs since some of these templates used smaller top margins than the 
inkjet printer could use properly.

I do like the make one label and then press a button and all the labels 
are made the same.  That works well most times.  As for needing each 
label to be different for the sheet[s] of labels, I think everyone has 
their own stories to tell about what works, and do not work, with their 
printer and their needs.

If you must work out a procedure for an "older user" you will need to do 
the step-by-step instructions based upon that user's printer and his 
actual work.  If you make it work on an Epson Artisan 810 printer, which 
does borderless printing for letter size paper, it may not printout 
properly with a HP PSC-1410 printer or a HP Color Laserjet 2600n.  I 
know this, since these are the three working printer I currently have 
and I must use different margin sizes for each printer, it seems to my 
experience.  So if you do this for someone else, you need to use the 
margins, etc., what his printer needs to use.


On 11/20/2011 08:04 AM, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 22:16 19/11/2011 -0700, Jerry Noname wrote:
> > At 07:59 PM 11/19/2011, Brian Barker wrote:
> > > At 18:24 19/11/2011 -0700, Jerry Noname wrote:
> > > > That blank second page is inserted by LibreWriter for some unknown 
> > > > reason.  After you have generated the business card, press Ctrl P 
> > > > to bring up the print menu.  Select the LibreOffice Writer tab and 
> > > > unselect "Print automatically inserted blank pages".
> > >
> > > Sorry, but that's not going to help in this case.  The 
> > > "automatically inserted blank pages" referred to are those created 
> > > when pages have been numbered and in order to ensure that 
> > > odd-numbered pages are always rectos and even-numbered pages always 
> > > versos.  This blank page is different, being the result of an 
> > > additional, empty paragraph after the end of a table which 
> > > completely fills the first page.  The document is merely ever so 
> > > slightly longer than a single page.
> > >
> > > But you can, of course, just as easily choose, in the print 
> > > dialogue, to print only page 1.
> >
> > I don't believe that is always the case.  I just used the label 
> > format to create a set of 422 labels for specimens in a museum using 
> > a spreadsheet which contained all of the label data and LibreOffice 
> > Base.  There were 39 pages of labels and the program inserted a blank 
> > page between each page of labels.  There were no page numbers.
>
> Sorry, but you have misunderstood what I said.  You have constructed a 
> document which contains many blank pages that you did not want.  Of 
> course you can do this, and I didn't suggest otherwise.  But those are 
> not the blank pages referred to in the "Print automatically inserted 
> blank pages" option - and deselecting that option will not help you by 
> suppressing those pages.  The special blank pages referred to are not 
> shown in the normal editing view, so you may not even be aware they 
> are there.  But they do appear in Page Preview, with a large grey 
> legend "blank page" (which doesn't print, of course).  Your genuine 
> blank pages will show in editing view and also in Page Preview, but 
> without the legend.
>
> > Since the museum required a special size label - one that did not 
> > match any of the templates, I used the closest size template and then 
> > changed the label dimensions and margins to suit our needs. Saved it 
> > as a custom template. We did not use actual labels, but printed white 
> > on black (margins included) on heavy stock and then cut the sheets 
> > apart to the proper size.
>
> It sounds as if you have (sensibly) used tables, as did the original 
> questioner, and left empty paragraphs between each full-page table.  
> In fact, although you cannot remove the trailing empty paragraph after 
> the final table (and therefore need to suppress it in one of the ways 
> I described), you can, in fact, remove the unwanted paragraphs between 
> the tables.  So there was no need to retain all those intervening 
> blank pages in your document.
>
> Brian Barker


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