Re: [newbie] Printing envelopes
On Wednesday 18 Dec 2002 4:22 am, Linus Drouhard wrote: Anne, I don't print many envelopes and I don't make them part of the main document. The OO letter function does not work quite as well as MS Office. It just formats a page that happens to be envelope size. If there's a way for it to automatically recognize the address from a letter, for instance, I don't know how to accomplish that. If you highlight an address it does paste it into the envelope. However, if the envelope function is dodgy it's better avoided for the present, although it looks as though it is getting close. For the moment, I'll do it your way. I just start a new document, set the page format to envelope, type that addresses and print. That suits me for the very few envelopes I do print. I have not had any trouble with OO restarting itself. I had this problem under 8.2, first install, but when I re-installed 8.2 OO behaved perfectly. I've had a few other difficulties with MDK 9.0, browsers that suddenly quit communication to printer, Galeon freezing all the time, Software Updater has never worked, and a few other annoyances. I fixed the browsers be removing and reinstalling. I've not figured out Software Updater, it connects but won't download a thing from any connected server. I've none of those problems. I think the frustrating thing is that we don't understand what's going on. The fact that one person has a persistant problem while another with a very similar setup has none makes it very confusing. Oh, well, now I'm wandering far off topic. I don't have any other ideas for you on OO except to try the old Microsoft solution of remove and reinstall. I personally hate that approach as I want to know what's wrong and fix it directly. Me too. Ah well - learning experiences ;-) Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing envelopes
At 10:22 PM 12/17/2002 -0600, you wrote: Anne, I don't print many envelopes and I don't make them part of the main document. The OO letter function does not work quite as well as MS Office. It just formats a page that happens to be envelope size. If there's a way for it to automatically recognize the address from a letter, for instance, I don't know how to accomplish that. I'm a simpleton, I guess. I just start a new document, set the page format to envelope, type that addresses and print. That suits me for the very few envelopes I do print. I have not had any trouble with OO restarting itself. I've had a few other difficulties with MDK 9.0, browsers that suddenly quit communication to printer, Galeon freezing all the time, Software Updater has never worked, and a few other annoyances. I fixed the browsers be removing and reinstalling. I've not figured out Software Updater, it connects but won't download a thing from any connected server. Oh, well, now I'm wandering far off topic. I don't have any other ideas for you on OO except to try the old Microsoft solution of remove and reinstall. I personally hate that approach as I want to know what's wrong and fix it directly. Good luck. Linus On Monday 16 December 2002 04:47 am, Anne Wilson wrote: OK, Linus. Now I need some pointers. I'm used to Lotus WordPro, which recognises an envelope as a separate section, changing the orientation for that section only. In OOo I found that creating an envelope put the envelope as page 1 of the document. Can that page be re-oriented without affecting the body of the letter? My problem is that everything is, quite reasonably, I suppose, done to make change from MSOffice easy, but if you didn't use that anyway it can be a struggle to find how to achieve things. Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated. I do find that if I do something that upsets OOo it goes into this spontaneous re-boot, often corrupting the file as well. I had to re-type a long one yesterday because of that. Anne On Monday 16 Dec 2002 3:11 am, Linus Drouhard wrote: I print envelopes on occasion with OO. No problems or special setup. I just set the envelope into landscape mode and it works fine. Linus On Sunday 15 December 2002 01:45 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Has anyone cracked printing envelopes? In OOo and SO6 I get a spontaneous reboot as soon as I try to do it. John, do you print envelopes in KWrite? There has to be a way - it's degrading to have to use windows to print the envelope. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com you may want to resend that to whoever you meant to send it to :P - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing envelopes
At 03:02 PM 12/18/2002 -0700, you wrote: At 10:22 PM 12/17/2002 -0600, you wrote: you may want to resend that to whoever you meant to send it to :P - FemmeFatale Sorry that was a misfire :P Heh hit reply by accident on something in the trash - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing envelopes
Anne, I don't print many envelopes and I don't make them part of the main document. The OO letter function does not work quite as well as MS Office. It just formats a page that happens to be envelope size. If there's a way for it to automatically recognize the address from a letter, for instance, I don't know how to accomplish that. I'm a simpleton, I guess. I just start a new document, set the page format to envelope, type that addresses and print. That suits me for the very few envelopes I do print. I have not had any trouble with OO restarting itself. I've had a few other difficulties with MDK 9.0, browsers that suddenly quit communication to printer, Galeon freezing all the time, Software Updater has never worked, and a few other annoyances. I fixed the browsers be removing and reinstalling. I've not figured out Software Updater, it connects but won't download a thing from any connected server. Oh, well, now I'm wandering far off topic. I don't have any other ideas for you on OO except to try the old Microsoft solution of remove and reinstall. I personally hate that approach as I want to know what's wrong and fix it directly. Good luck. Linus On Monday 16 December 2002 04:47 am, Anne Wilson wrote: OK, Linus. Now I need some pointers. I'm used to Lotus WordPro, which recognises an envelope as a separate section, changing the orientation for that section only. In OOo I found that creating an envelope put the envelope as page 1 of the document. Can that page be re-oriented without affecting the body of the letter? My problem is that everything is, quite reasonably, I suppose, done to make change from MSOffice easy, but if you didn't use that anyway it can be a struggle to find how to achieve things. Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated. I do find that if I do something that upsets OOo it goes into this spontaneous re-boot, often corrupting the file as well. I had to re-type a long one yesterday because of that. Anne On Monday 16 Dec 2002 3:11 am, Linus Drouhard wrote: I print envelopes on occasion with OO. No problems or special setup. I just set the envelope into landscape mode and it works fine. Linus On Sunday 15 December 2002 01:45 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Has anyone cracked printing envelopes? In OOo and SO6 I get a spontaneous reboot as soon as I try to do it. John, do you print envelopes in KWrite? There has to be a way - it's degrading to have to use windows to print the envelope. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing envelopes
OK, Linus. Now I need some pointers. I'm used to Lotus WordPro, which recognises an envelope as a separate section, changing the orientation for that section only. In OOo I found that creating an envelope put the envelope as page 1 of the document. Can that page be re-oriented without affecting the body of the letter? My problem is that everything is, quite reasonably, I suppose, done to make change from MSOffice easy, but if you didn't use that anyway it can be a struggle to find how to achieve things. Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated. I do find that if I do something that upsets OOo it goes into this spontaneous re-boot, often corrupting the file as well. I had to re-type a long one yesterday because of that. Anne On Monday 16 Dec 2002 3:11 am, Linus Drouhard wrote: I print envelopes on occasion with OO. No problems or special setup. I just set the envelope into landscape mode and it works fine. Linus On Sunday 15 December 2002 01:45 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Has anyone cracked printing envelopes? In OOo and SO6 I get a spontaneous reboot as soon as I try to do it. John, do you print envelopes in KWrite? There has to be a way - it's degrading to have to use windows to print the envelope. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing envelopes
I print envelopes on occasion with OO. No problems or special setup. I just set the envelope into landscape mode and it works fine. Linus On Sunday 15 December 2002 01:45 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Has anyone cracked printing envelopes? In OOo and SO6 I get a spontaneous reboot as soon as I try to do it. John, do you print envelopes in KWrite? There has to be a way - it's degrading to have to use windows to print the envelope. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing envelopes from Mandrake on a Deskjet
Both Star Office and Word Perfect8 can print envelopes from an envelope slot. I use them both on a HP 632 deskjet. K word seems like it may be nice in the future, but it lacks a few desirable abilities. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user # 217118 "Dr. Evil" wrote: I have a Deskjet 882c printer. It works fine with kword (sucks with printing graphics though). It has a handy little slot on it for putting in envelopes. However, I don't see how to get Kword to make use of it by orienting text the right way and formating it in the correct position. Any hints? Or are there some other utilities out there which can print using this setup? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing envelopes from Mandrake on a Deskjet
Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately I have never been able to get Star Office to print! I need to look into that. In the future, Kword is going to be fantastic. MS may have some real competition from that corner. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing Envelopes NIGHTMARE
Try WP8 David P. Greenberg Bitco Electronics "In Service to the Recording Industry" **Rock on with glowing glass** -Original Message- From: Mike Fieschko [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 12:29 PM Subject: [newbie] Printing Envelopes NIGHTMARE "Karen" == Karen Heiby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Karen I can't find a single application that will print envelopes Karen correctly. I have an Epson 660. Star Office feeds every [snip] I do not have an Epson 660, but I notice in Star Office's Printer Setup, that this model is not listed. What printer support did you install with Star Office? -- Mike Fieschko, West Orange, NJ, USA X-Mailer: XEmacs 21.1, VM 6.75 and random-sig.el Kernel 2.2.13-28mdk http://www.viconet.com/fieschko/home.htm Nov 16 St Gertrude "Veblen's conspicuous consumption is still around. But it generally has to share the stage with conspicuous compassion, another form of compulsive display." [Wilfred M. McClay in First Things, December 1998]
Re: [newbie] Printing Envelopes NIGHTMARE
I too have had excellant luck with WP8 !!! William Bouterse Juneau, Alaska
Re: [newbie] Printing Envelopes NIGHTMARE
"Karen" == Karen Heiby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mike Fieschko wrote: [snip] I do not have an Epson 660, but I notice in Star Office's Printer Setup, that this model is not listed. What printer support did you install with Star Office? I found the printer setup and I have it selected to use my Epson with the drivers that work with every other program. I still get this envelope problem, though. Karen I wasn't given the opportunity to setup a printer, however, Karen StarOffice tells me I have a generic printer. It prints Karen documents okay (albeit VERY slowly). It's weird because Karen all my other applications have my printer listed as Karen "epson", which is what I named it. The printer drop-down Karen box in Star Office doesn't contain any other options Karen besides that Generic Printer. What printer drop-down menu? The one where you select the printer after you tell it to print something, before you click OK. (But never mind, I have my drivers in there now). What version of Star Office? I have 5.1 from Sun here, and 5.1 from Star Division, and on the desktop is an icon "Printer Setup", which is a link to $(inst)/bin/spadmin.bin I have Star Office 5.1a and Mandrake 6.1. So far I'm caught up with you. I found how to setup the printer and I have my various drivers set in there (Curiously, the driver that's supposed to print up to 1440dpi can't be changed in StarOffice's configuration to anything past 300, but that's another issue). Anyway, after putting in the drivers, Star Office still botches up envelopes by printing them at the wrong orientation and then printing numerous pages of gobbledygook until I turn the printer off and delete the queue. Too bad, Star Office would be great for my needs if it weren't for this one problem. Thanks for any input you can give me! Karen
Re: [newbie] Printing Envelopes NIGHTMARE
Do you have an Epson 660 too? I'd like to try WP8. I was just wanting the convenience of a total office suite, though. You know, everything is in once place nice and neat :-) Karen - Original Message - From: WH Bouterse [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 3:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Printing Envelopes NIGHTMARE I too have had excellant luck with WP8 !!! William Bouterse Juneau, Alaska
Re: [newbie] Printing Envelopes NIGHTMARE
Hi all! Mike Fieschko wrote: "Karen" == Karen Heiby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Karen Mike Fieschko wrote: I do not have an Epson 660, but I notice in Star Office's Printer Setup, that this model is not listed. What printer support did you install with Star Office? Karen I wasn't given the opportunity to setup a printer, however, Karen StarOffice tells me I have a generic printer. It prints The linux version of SO does support native postscript printers only. "generic" refers to ghostscript, which emulates a generic postcript printer. So it wouldnt help to choose another driver in SO, the Stylus Color 660 is Esc-P2. There are two ghostscript drivers for the Epson 660: The Driver for any Stylus Color and the driver for Stylus color 500. The latter is reported to have problems with color printing. Also other b/w Esc-P2 drivers possibly would work. Look to http://www.suse.de,choose english language and look up the hardware database for Esc-P2 printers. It might help to try another ghostscript driver. HTH. Peter
Re: [newbie] Printing Envelopes NIGHTMARE
Hi Karen, Karen Heiby wrote: Mike Fieschko wrote: "Karen" == Karen Heiby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Karen I can't find a single application that will print envelopes Karen correctly. I have an Epson 660. Star Office feeds every [snip] I do not have an Epson 660, but I notice in Star Office's Printer Setup, that this model is not listed. What printer support did you install with Star Office? I wasn't given the opportunity to setup a printer, however, StarOffice tells me I have a generic printer. It prints documents okay (albeit VERY slowly). It's weird because all my other applications have my printer listed as "epson", which is what I named it. The printer drop-down box in Star Office doesn't contain any other options besides that Generic Printer. I believe that "generic" is the only choice for Linux. The other printer choices would work with win$ only. How can I set up a printer like you say? I looked everywhere! I would ask the StarOffice newsgroup but I can only find a group in German! Look to http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/newsgroups.html to have a list of englishspoken newsgroups. greetings, Peter
