Re: [libreoffice-users] printing envelopes

At 05:17 23/09/2017 -0700, John R. Sowden wrote:
> A few months ago, I asked about printing envelopes. All I got was 
> explaining how LO does it.

Hold on: you asked on a list concerned with LibreOffice about 
printing envelopes and you got a reply about how LibreOffice prints 
envelopes? I have to say that I'm not surprised! Surely you shouldn't 
expect anything else?

It's worth saying that "printing envelopes" is not really a concept 
any more than "printing letters to my maiden aunt" or "printing 
notices for the youth club notice board". An envelope is just a 
particular variety of paper stock, and you can print on it just as 
you can print on any other stock. Set your document size and 
orientation to that of your envelopes and proceed as usual. The only 
stumbling block may be discovering in which orientation your printer 
expects envelopes to be loaded (which varies between printers) and 
how you then ensure that you document is constructed appropriately to match.

> Finally someone said LO only prints one envelope for one document, ...

LibreOffice has the facility easily to add to a letter (or other 
postal document) a single envelope in which to post it. Most letters 
go in a single envelope. If you don't want that, don't use it. I 
suspect your respondents were trying to be helpful. And what is this 
"one document"? You said you wanted to printed envelopes - nothing 
about documents.

> ... not 100 envelopes with a custom return address.

Is that what you asked for?

That's easy: construct a document that is the face of your envelope 
with the custom return address and nothing else. Experiment to 
confirm orientations as above. Load your envelopes. Print the 
document, setting "Number of copies" to 100. Job done.

Or do you perhaps mean something else? Do you want to print a hundred 
envelopes with the same return address but with a hundred different 
addresses on them - presumably sourced from a database of addresses? 
If so, you have not mentioned most of that! Most word processors have 
the facility to do this, and LibreOffice is no exception. The process 
is called "mail merge" and is covered in Chapter 11 of the Writer 
Guide "Using Mail Merge - Form Letters, Mailing Labels, and 
Envelopes" - specifically in the section "Printing envelopes". It's 
not trivial, but I think it is fairly easy to follow.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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