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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.



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