Re: [libreoffice-users] printing envelopes

Well hi there!

So much to discuss.  Re printing envelopes in quantity, which was the 
the question that I wrote about, I was, and still am creating about 8 
different custom envelopes of different sizes use a word processor 
invented in the 1980 era for the CP/M operating system called Wordstar.  
Granted I am currently using version 5.5 under a newer version of the 
DOS operating system. I print these in advance so my office staff can 
just grab an envelope, put the addressee on the envelope using a TSR and 
toss in into outgoing mail, of course, after adding it to the mail log 
database using a FoxPro 2.6 under DOS custom program I wrote.

I struggled with the method you referenced below, soliciting assistance 
from this list.  The responders also could not get LO to print a stack 
of envelopes.  We finally agreed that the LO way is to print each 
envelope with each document.  We did not discuss that about 25% of the 
documents that we create are reports created using the Foxpro 2.6 for 
DOS language/database referenced above.

Finally, we do not use "mail merge", under Word Star or LO, as we create 
custom documents, not mass mailings.

Hope that clears this up,

John Sowden
American Sentry Systems, Inc.


On 09/24/2017 03:42 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
> 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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