Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Creating a table with equal sized rows

On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 16:01:06 -0600
Ken Springer <snowshed1@q.com> wrote:
> 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.

If you select points as the measurement unit for the document then
two-thirds of an inch is exactly 48 points and you can enter that when
sizing row heights.
https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Selecting_Measurement_Units
https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Conversion_of_measurement_units

It looks like it works on screen but I've no idea whether it prints
correctly.

HTH, Dave

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