Re: [libreoffice-users] Label Printing, how to add label template?
On Jun 29, 2011, at 6:26 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote: On 2011-06-30 11:07, planas wrote: Ross On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 15:35 -0700, Ross Bernheim wrote: I am running Libreoffice 3.3.2.2 on a Mac. I can export data to a Libreoffice spreadsheet and from there to a database table in Libreoffice. When i then go to file-new-labels. It will let me put in the database, table and database fields. Problem is that the format section will not let me select the right label. I want to use Avery A5444 labels. I downloaded the template for the labels from Avery's web site. My printer is an old NEC SuperScript 870 which runs an emulation of an HP series 2 laserjet. It always prints to the left edge of the paper tray. The labels feed in the center. Yep, problem. I opened the Avery template and did a save as a Liberoffice document and edited the paper size to 8.5 inches wide and set the left margin at 2.25 inches which centers the label correctly for printing. I checked by entering some test text in the document and printing. I then saved the document, after deleting the test text, as a Libreoffice template. The template does not show up as a selection in the format section of the labels dialog. How do I get my modified template to show up and be usable? Thank you for any assistance you can provide. Ross Ross Bernheim r...@evactron.com Try opening a new document from a template. I am not sure on a Mac the path. When open one of my personal templates I have to open a folder called my templates. I believe you will have something similar. I use Linux primarily. Hi. I just tried the following in writer but not sure if it is what you want. I went FileNewLabels. Then I set the parameters of my label and clicked Save and saved as Brand = Steve, Type = Label1 I could then use my own designed label as a New label. May be you will need to create the label format this way instead of a template from their site. steve I was hoping that I could use the Avery template that I modified. But it looks like your suggestion might be easier at this point. It does mean that each time I want to use a different label that is not one of the few pre-defined ones in Libreoffice, I must go through this each time to create the new label. Thanks for your help. Ross -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Label Printing, how to add label template?
On 1/07/11 9:22 AM, Ross Bernheim wrote: On Jun 29, 2011, at 6:26 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote: On 2011-06-30 11:07, planas wrote: Ross On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 15:35 -0700, Ross Bernheim wrote: I am running Libreoffice 3.3.2.2 on a Mac. I can export data to a Libreoffice spreadsheet and from there to a database table in Libreoffice. When i then go to file-new-labels. It will let me put in the database, table and database fields. Problem is that the format section will not let me select the right label. I want to use Avery A5444 labels. I downloaded the template for the labels from Avery's web site. My printer is an old NEC SuperScript 870 which runs an emulation of an HP series 2 laserjet. It always prints to the left edge of the paper tray. The labels feed in the center. Yep, problem. I opened the Avery template and did a save as a Liberoffice document and edited the paper size to 8.5 inches wide and set the left margin at 2.25 inches which centers the label correctly for printing. I checked by entering some test text in the document and printing. I then saved the document, after deleting the test text, as a Libreoffice template. The template does not show up as a selection in the format section of the labels dialog. How do I get my modified template to show up and be usable? Thank you for any assistance you can provide. Ross Ross Bernheim r...@evactron.com Try opening a new document from a template. I am not sure on a Mac the path. When open one of my personal templates I have to open a folder called my templates. I believe you will have something similar. I use Linux primarily. Hi. I just tried the following in writer but not sure if it is what you want. I went FileNewLabels. Then I set the parameters of my label and clicked Save and saved as Brand = Steve, Type = Label1 I could then use my own designed label as a New label. May be you will need to create the label format this way instead of a template from their site. steve I was hoping that I could use the Avery template that I modified. But it looks like your suggestion might be easier at this point. It does mean that each time I want to use a different label that is not one of the few pre-defined ones in Libreoffice, I must go through this each time to create the new label. Thanks for your help. Ross I couldn't find the Avery A5444 label spec. What size are these, are they singles or (I assume not) continuous. steve -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Label Printing, how to add label template?
On Jun 30, 2011, at 2:30 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote: Ross I couldn't find the Avery A5444 label spec. What size are these, are they singles or (I assume not) continuous. steve The Avery 5444 labels are 2 inches high by 4 inches wide, 2 to a sheet with a 5/8 inch space at top, a 3/4 inch separation between labels and a 5/8 inch space at the bottom of the sheet. The Avery template 5444 is set up to use a tab to move to the next label. Lots of fun! I suspect that I will do my own template in the labels dialog as the 'easier' way. It is just an annoyance on all fronts that things that computers were supposed to make easier are instead much harder than the need to be if they can be done with the computer at all. The product lifecycle management database will let me export the data I need and into a format that Libreoffice can use with a bunch of steps of dialogs, not hard, just tedious. Libreoffice cannot see the label template that Avery says to use from within the labels dialog. The printer refuses to recognize that the labels need to be fed from the center even though their paper tray centers any paper you feed it. The printer prints from the left edge of a standard page size not the narrower labels. Thanks, Ross -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Label Printing, how to add label template?
I am running Libreoffice 3.3.2.2 on a Mac. I can export data to a Libreoffice spreadsheet and from there to a database table in Libreoffice. When i then go to file-new-labels. It will let me put in the database, table and database fields. Problem is that the format section will not let me select the right label. I want to use Avery A5444 labels. I downloaded the template for the labels from Avery's web site. My printer is an old NEC SuperScript 870 which runs an emulation of an HP series 2 laserjet. It always prints to the left edge of the paper tray. The labels feed in the center. Yep, problem. I opened the Avery template and did a save as a Liberoffice document and edited the paper size to 8.5 inches wide and set the left margin at 2.25 inches which centers the label correctly for printing. I checked by entering some test text in the document and printing. I then saved the document, after deleting the test text, as a Libreoffice template. The template does not show up as a selection in the format section of the labels dialog. How do I get my modified template to show up and be usable? Thank you for any assistance you can provide. Ross Ross Bernheim r...@evactron.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Label Printing, how to add label template?
Ross On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 15:35 -0700, Ross Bernheim wrote: I am running Libreoffice 3.3.2.2 on a Mac. I can export data to a Libreoffice spreadsheet and from there to a database table in Libreoffice. When i then go to file-new-labels. It will let me put in the database, table and database fields. Problem is that the format section will not let me select the right label. I want to use Avery A5444 labels. I downloaded the template for the labels from Avery's web site. My printer is an old NEC SuperScript 870 which runs an emulation of an HP series 2 laserjet. It always prints to the left edge of the paper tray. The labels feed in the center. Yep, problem. I opened the Avery template and did a save as a Liberoffice document and edited the paper size to 8.5 inches wide and set the left margin at 2.25 inches which centers the label correctly for printing. I checked by entering some test text in the document and printing. I then saved the document, after deleting the test text, as a Libreoffice template. The template does not show up as a selection in the format section of the labels dialog. How do I get my modified template to show up and be usable? Thank you for any assistance you can provide. Ross Ross Bernheim r...@evactron.com Try opening a new document from a template. I am not sure on a Mac the path. When open one of my personal templates I have to open a folder called my templates. I believe you will have something similar. I use Linux primarily. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Label Printing, how to add label template?
On 2011-06-30 11:07, planas wrote: Ross On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 15:35 -0700, Ross Bernheim wrote: I am running Libreoffice 3.3.2.2 on a Mac. I can export data to a Libreoffice spreadsheet and from there to a database table in Libreoffice. When i then go to file-new-labels. It will let me put in the database, table and database fields. Problem is that the format section will not let me select the right label. I want to use Avery A5444 labels. I downloaded the template for the labels from Avery's web site. My printer is an old NEC SuperScript 870 which runs an emulation of an HP series 2 laserjet. It always prints to the left edge of the paper tray. The labels feed in the center. Yep, problem. I opened the Avery template and did a save as a Liberoffice document and edited the paper size to 8.5 inches wide and set the left margin at 2.25 inches which centers the label correctly for printing. I checked by entering some test text in the document and printing. I then saved the document, after deleting the test text, as a Libreoffice template. The template does not show up as a selection in the format section of the labels dialog. How do I get my modified template to show up and be usable? Thank you for any assistance you can provide. Ross Ross Bernheim r...@evactron.com Try opening a new document from a template. I am not sure on a Mac the path. When open one of my personal templates I have to open a folder called my templates. I believe you will have something similar. I use Linux primarily. Hi. I just tried the following in writer but not sure if it is what you want. I went FileNewLabels. Then I set the parameters of my label and clicked Save and saved as Brand = Steve, Type = Label1 I could then use my own designed label as a New label. May be you will need to create the label format this way instead of a template from their site. steve -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
