Hi, Remy,
Before I forget this, I "regressed" to 5.2.7 to see if the
StartCenter
file loading problem I found in 5.3.1.6 was solved. I will have to
create some documents to know the current status.
I could not get your idea to work. In fact, I just spent 3-4 hours
trying to get your idea and LO's labels feature to work. And it
didn't.
:-(
This is what I am trying to do, create a page of labels to fit Avery
label #18294.
LO's label creation cannot create a page for Avery letter sized
labels,
#18294. But neither can MS Word for Mac 2011 and Softmaker Office
2016
for Windows. Printing on the label slowly moves lower on each label
and
you get closer to the bottom of the page. Or it moves up on the
label.
Why does it do this? I think it's because you cannot enter the
correct
size for the height of the label. In all 3 programs you can only
enter
.66" or .67" for the height. But neither number is correct. The
actual
size of the label is two-thirds of an inch, a repeating decimal to
infinity, I.E. .66666666666666666 with 6's going on forever. So, if
the
programmers formulas for calculating height is limited to 2 decimal
places, there is no option but to have a built-in error.
It had been suggested to me, somewhere, to use a table. And that's
where the problem of the extra line feed, that is unnecessary if you
change the program code, comes into play.
And you end up screwing around and wasting your time with all the
various workarounds.
Anyway, I created a frame, and sized it to fit the page margins I
had
set up. Those margins were the ones that should fit the area of the
sheet of labels I wish to print. Then, I created a table inside the
frame.
I was never able to get the column widths to be correct. In the
Table
Properties, I typed in the exact dimensions of the for the columns,
had
all the text offsets I could find set to 0", and then LO would
simply
change the widths to whatever when I exited the dialogue.
So I went to the Avery website, downloaded and installed their
Design
and Print software. In 10-15 minutes, I had a page of labels that
fit.
From now on, it's the Avery software for me, when it comes to
labels.
I am going to install the current version of Open Office, see if it
has
the same problems. :-)
On 9/17/17 2:08 PM, Remy Gauthier wrote:
Hi,
You can place the table in a frame that is set to be behind the
text on
the page (this will remove the space taken by the paragraph mark
after
the table on the page but not in the frame). Anchor the frame to
the
page, with the top at 0 cm from the text zone. Place the data in
your
table and then spread the rows evenly in the table (from the table
menu). By adjusting the height of your table, you should be able to
fit
it between your top and bottom margins. This is the easiest way I
can
think of, but it is not straightforward.
I hope this helps.
Rémy Gauthier.
Le dimanche 17 septembre 2017 à 12:42 -0600, Ken Springer a écrit :
Libre Office 5.3.6.1
Mac OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan
I've been trying to find a way to easily create a table that
starts at
the top margin, ends at the bottom margin, with all rows the same
height, and not create a blank page at the end of the document.
Can this be done?
--
Ken
Mac OS X 10.11.6
Firefox 53.0.2 (64 bit)
Thunderbird 52.0
"My brain is like lightning, a quick flash
and it's gone!"
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Ken
Mac OS X 10.11.6
Firefox 53.0.2 (64 bit)
Thunderbird 52.0
"My brain is like lightning, a quick flash
and it's gone!"