Klaas Visser wrote:
*Robert Derman* typed up the following on 17-Nov-07 07:51 (GMT +11):
Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
Dmitry Feofanov wrote:
Folks, I understand you are working on 2.4. Great program, with
one glaring
flaw, IMHO: envelope printing feature. Several of my friends (myself
including) were unable to get the envelope printing to
work--consequently, we
went back to evil Word. But we could print our envelopes there!
There are several elements that could be improved in OpenOffice.org,
but
envelope printing is not top of the list. It's child's play to
create one or
more envelope templates and to subsequently use them to create
envelopes.
Would it really be so hard to embed several envelope templates in OOo
in order to make it easier for users to do envelope addresses. I
think it is unreasonable to expect users, especially those who only
use a word processor on rare occasions to jump through so many hoops
to do a basic thing like printing envelopes. On a similar note, much
of the blame for it being difficult to address envelopes must be
shared by the printer manufacturers, their hardware and firmware
designs really don't help much. It has long been my practice to just
print a second copy of every letter and cut out the address and tape
it to the envelope. As far as I am concerned M$ word is really no
better in this area than OOo writer.
But there *are* multiple envelope templates in OO.o, for a range of
different size envelopes. You can even modify the position of all the
elements and resave as your own personal templates.
You can either save the envelope with the document you've typed up in
Writer, or you can create a separate document just for the envelope.
At it's most simplest, open Writer, select Insert > Envelope. On the
Format tab, select the size envelope you want to use, and on the
Envelope tab, enter in your sender/addressee details, and click on New
Doc. Print as required.
Granted, it may be nice it OO.o came with envelope templates you can
select from the Template wizard, but then I've created half a dozen
templates using the above process, and saved them in my Templates
folder, for quick access. Took about 15 minutes.
I think a bigger problem than OOo Writer as far as envelopes is
concerned, is the poor designs of most printers as far as envelope
handling is concerned. Most of today's consumer model printers are
designed more for printing photographs than for light office duty, and
so don't handle envelopes well, if at all. If a printer were really
designed for envelope printing, it would have a separate paper bin just
for holding envelopes, and a paper path designed not to jam with envelopes.
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