[libreoffice-users] Re: Avery 8167 label printing

On 2/9/16 1:15 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> I have found that, at least with 8160 labels, LO works whereas AOO does
> not. I realize that's not your issue, but at least *one* of the label
> forms seems to work better than with LO than with AOO giving me the
> impression that the LO developers have been a little more proactive in
> chasing down label issues than the AOO developers.
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> I've often found that, with labels, I sometimes have to make small
> adjustments. For example, I've sometimes inserted a small 8 point blank
> paragraph at the top of a cell to move the actual address down a
> smidgen. I sometimes do this in the cells themselves or in the "Label
> text" dialog box under <File> <New> <Labels> when I'm doing a merge from
> a database. I've also been known to insert a space or two before each
> line in the address form, just to move it in from the left margin a bit
> as so: (I realize the spaces won't show up in an email so I've typed in
> "<sp>" to represent blank spaces that I insert with the space bar.)

I've done this a couple of times, and in places other than LO labels. 
In these cases, the printed error was so small I attributed it to 
differences in manufacturing of printer and/or label.

> ¶
> <sp><sp><2014.Sheet1.0.First name> <2014.Sheet1.0.Last name>
> <sp><sp><2014.Sheet1.0.Street>
> <sp><sp><2014.Sheet1.0.City>, <2014.Sheet1.0.State>  <2014.Sheet1.0.Zip>
>
> I realize these solutions are a bit of a cobble, but when you have to
> get the job done, you just do what you have to do and worry about bug
> reports later. My problem is that I only do this about once a year (for
> Christmas cards) and lose interest in the issues once I'm done.

When it comes to work, I want my "tools" to work, and not have to 
fiddle-fart around and waste my time.  I'd rather pay a reasonable price 
for something that works rather than fiddle here, fiddle there, fiddle 
somewhere else to get it to work.

From the aspect of doing the code for this, if this was my work and it 
didn't work, I'd keep after it until it was fixed.  It's a source of 
pride for me.

I can fiddle with the upper margin and "make it work", a cobble, a 
workaround, but that's not the point.  It's supposed to be a feature, 
therefore, it's reasonable for a user to expect it to work.

And to recreate a page full of labels isn't going to be fun.  Each label 
has a graphic included, and with no way to Ctrl/CMD A to select all and 
then copy and paste all, I'll have to do all the labels again.

Unless someone has an answer to that.

Is there a way to swap label templates in an existing doc?

> Virgil
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> On 02/09/2016 01:39 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
> > On 2/6/16 1:16 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
> > > Printing is off the mark vertically by about an eighth of an inch
> > > vertically, lower on the page than correct.
> > >
> > > Labels print fine on Avery 8160.
> > >
> > > No adjustments of any kind to the template was made.
> > >
> > > LO 4.4.7.2
> >
> > FWFW, it doesn't work in the latest version of Open Office, either.  :-(


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