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

Hi again,
I don't know if this works for the Avery pre-cut labels #18294, but I
was able to get the layout I was looking for like this and, added
advantage, LO does the sizing for me:
1) Insert a frame, anchored to the page2) Place the frame in the center
of the page, at so many inches, cm, points from the top of the page3)
Insert a 1 row, 1 column table in the frame4) Set the row height to 10
inches5) Set the column width to 7 inches6) Reset the position of the
frame to have it sit at the correct place on the page7) Split the table
vertically into 4 columns8) Split the table horizontally into 15 rows
in equal proportions
I hope this helps.
Rémy.
Le mardi 19 septembre 2017 à 08:14 -0600, Ken Springer a écrit :
> On 9/19/17 2:21 AM, Dave Howorth wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I just did some quick experimenting with points.  Even that may not
> work 
> right.
>
> The margins and space between labels are .3" in width.  Which is
> 21.6 
> pts.  But, you can't enter 21.6, and have it "stick".  It gets
> rounded 
> up to 22 pts.  I think this will end up with a horizontal spacing
> error, 
> instead of the vertical error I was trying to correct.
>
> I didn't work at this too hard, since it's just easier to use the
> Avery 
> Software, IMO, especially since the label is already included in
> their 
> software.  It's not in the LO list, or in the Word for Mac 2001
> list. 
> The label is listed in Softmaker 2016 for Windows, but it doesn't
> work 
> correctly, as the text is slowly displaced on the paper.
>
> So, we know the Avery software appears to not stumble over this. 
> Bringing up the question, why does it work there, or how do they do
> it?
>
> It occurred to me, maybe Avery checks the DPI of the printer, and
> uses 
> that as the basis for positioning on the paper.  I did the math with
> my 
> printer dpi (1200) and all the results for the 18294 label is in
> whole 
> numbers!!!!   If your printing is a bit off, the Avery software
> allows 
> you to "nudge" the output left, right, up, and down.
>
> Regardless of the word processor being used, I'm done with trying to
> do 
> labels in that program.  I'm going to use the Avery software until I 
> find a label that doesn't work right.
>
>
>
> -- 
> Ken
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