Re: [libreoffice-users] printing non-standard page sizes
On 07/22/2011 08:32 PM, planas wrote: Hi Matthew, On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 11:43 -0400, Matthew Monaco wrote: On 07/22/2011 08:17 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Matthew, Matthew Monaco schrieb: I've always had a lot of trouble printing when I setup a custom page size in the page properties. It seems like the print dialog tries to find the best fit of the predefined page sizes. Yes. The printer "tells" what paper size it is able to handle. And LO searches the best fitting from them. Unfortunately, the printer does not "tell" whether this paper size is really available. So your printer might go into a waiting mode and you have to enter the paper manually. Furthermore, I have no clue what the manual option is attempting to do. Is there something I'm missing here? The behavior is different for Writer, Calc, Draw and Impress. Generally there are two ways to get fitting of page format and paper size. You can tell your printer what to do. For example my printer can print with scaling 80%. Or you can tell LO what to do. Especially Draw and Calc have a lot of options. You should describe a concrete task, if you want detailed help. Kind regards Regina Ok, concrete task: printing envelopes (writer). Set page size to 6.3 x 4.7 (landscape). Type out address and return address. File> Print>> _select printer_>> properties button>> paper tab No matter what I do here I cannot print correctly to a specified paper size. Either the text becomes distorted or it prints outside the bounds of the page. However, I know I'm capable of printing to this size just fine because I can from Abiword, gedit, firefox, etc. They all use a standard print dialog. I like LO a lot more, but I'm forced to use Abiword whenever printing envelopes. You could try setting the page size to the appropriate envelope size by using FORMAT>>PAGE and under the Page Tab in the Paper Format section select the correct Format in the Format list box. When there happens to be an envelope sizes the corresponds, everything is OK. However not all envelopes are standard. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] printing non-standard page sizes
Hi Matthew, On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 11:43 -0400, Matthew Monaco wrote: > On 07/22/2011 08:17 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: > > Hi Matthew, > > > > Matthew Monaco schrieb: > >> I've always had a lot of trouble printing when I setup a custom page > >> size in the page properties. It seems like the print dialog tries to > >> find the best fit of the predefined page sizes. > > > > Yes. The printer "tells" what paper size it is able to handle. And LO > > searches > > the best fitting from them. Unfortunately, the printer does not "tell" > > whether > > this paper size is really available. So your printer might go into a waiting > > mode and you have to enter the paper manually. > > > > Furthermore, I have no > >> clue what the manual option is attempting to do. > >> > >> Is there something I'm missing here? > > > > The behavior is different for Writer, Calc, Draw and Impress. Generally > > there > > are two ways to get fitting of page format and paper size. You can tell your > > printer what to do. For example my printer can print with scaling 80%. Or > > you > > can tell LO what to do. Especially Draw and Calc have a lot of options. > > > > You should describe a concrete task, if you want detailed help. > > > > Kind regards > > Regina > > > > Ok, concrete task: printing envelopes (writer). > > Set page size to 6.3 x 4.7 (landscape). > > Type out address and return address. > > File > Print >> _select printer_ >> properties button >> paper tab > > No matter what I do here I cannot print correctly to a specified paper size. > Either the text becomes distorted or it prints outside the bounds of the > page. > However, I know I'm capable of printing to this size just fine because I can > from Abiword, gedit, firefox, etc. They all use a standard print dialog. > > I like LO a lot more, but I'm forced to use Abiword whenever printing > envelopes. > You could try setting the page size to the appropriate envelope size by using FORMAT>>PAGE and under the Page Tab in the Paper Format section select the correct Format in the Format list box. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] printing non-standard page sizes
Hi Matthew, Matthew Monaco schrieb: On 07/22/2011 08:17 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Matthew, Matthew Monaco schrieb: I've always had a lot of trouble printing when I setup a custom page size in the page properties. It seems like the print dialog tries to find the best fit of the predefined page sizes. Yes. The printer "tells" what paper size it is able to handle. And LO searches the best fitting from them. Unfortunately, the printer does not "tell" whether this paper size is really available. So your printer might go into a waiting mode and you have to enter the paper manually. Furthermore, I have no clue what the manual option is attempting to do. Is there something I'm missing here? The behavior is different for Writer, Calc, Draw and Impress. Generally there are two ways to get fitting of page format and paper size. You can tell your printer what to do. For example my printer can print with scaling 80%. Or you can tell LO what to do. Especially Draw and Calc have a lot of options. You should describe a concrete task, if you want detailed help. Kind regards Regina Ok, concrete task: printing envelopes (writer). Set page size to 6.3 x 4.7 (landscape). Type out address and return address. File > Print >> _select printer_ >> properties button >> paper tab No matter what I do here I cannot print correctly to a specified paper size. Either the text becomes distorted or it prints outside the bounds of the page. However, I know I'm capable of printing to this size just fine because I can from Abiword, gedit, firefox, etc. They all use a standard print dialog. I like LO a lot more, but I'm forced to use Abiword whenever printing envelopes. Printing with Linux is different from printing with Windows, so please ask the Linux experts how to proper install the printer. Sometimes OOo is more sensible against wrong settings than other applications. I have only Windows and cannot help you with that. Printing an envelope is a very special thing. If the straight print does not work, you need a trick. The page size is set to your default paper size (likely A4 or letter). The position of the letter on the paper is set by the margins in the page layout. The envelope wizards tries to generate such a page layout. But it might fail and then you have to figure it out by yourself. Printers differ in the way they handle envelopes, so it might help to find someone, who owns the same printer as you. Kind regards Regina -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] printing non-standard page sizes
On 07/22/2011 08:17 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Matthew, Matthew Monaco schrieb: I've always had a lot of trouble printing when I setup a custom page size in the page properties. It seems like the print dialog tries to find the best fit of the predefined page sizes. Yes. The printer "tells" what paper size it is able to handle. And LO searches the best fitting from them. Unfortunately, the printer does not "tell" whether this paper size is really available. So your printer might go into a waiting mode and you have to enter the paper manually. Furthermore, I have no clue what the manual option is attempting to do. Is there something I'm missing here? The behavior is different for Writer, Calc, Draw and Impress. Generally there are two ways to get fitting of page format and paper size. You can tell your printer what to do. For example my printer can print with scaling 80%. Or you can tell LO what to do. Especially Draw and Calc have a lot of options. You should describe a concrete task, if you want detailed help. Kind regards Regina Ok, concrete task: printing envelopes (writer). Set page size to 6.3 x 4.7 (landscape). Type out address and return address. File > Print >> _select printer_ >> properties button >> paper tab No matter what I do here I cannot print correctly to a specified paper size. Either the text becomes distorted or it prints outside the bounds of the page. However, I know I'm capable of printing to this size just fine because I can from Abiword, gedit, firefox, etc. They all use a standard print dialog. I like LO a lot more, but I'm forced to use Abiword whenever printing envelopes. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] printing non-standard page sizes
Hi Matthew, Matthew Monaco schrieb: I've always had a lot of trouble printing when I setup a custom page size in the page properties. It seems like the print dialog tries to find the best fit of the predefined page sizes. Yes. The printer "tells" what paper size it is able to handle. And LO searches the best fitting from them. Unfortunately, the printer does not "tell" whether this paper size is really available. So your printer might go into a waiting mode and you have to enter the paper manually. Furthermore, I have no clue what the manual option is attempting to do. Is there something I'm missing here? The behavior is different for Writer, Calc, Draw and Impress. Generally there are two ways to get fitting of page format and paper size. You can tell your printer what to do. For example my printer can print with scaling 80%. Or you can tell LO what to do. Especially Draw and Calc have a lot of options. You should describe a concrete task, if you want detailed help. Kind regards Regina -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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] printing non-standard page sizes
I've always had a lot of trouble printing when I setup a custom page size in the page properties. It seems like the print dialog tries to find the best fit of the predefined page sizes. Furthermore, I have no clue what the manual option is attempting to do. Is there something I'm missing here? LibreOffice 3.4.2rc2 Linux 2.6.39 CUPS 1.4.7 Also, why does Libre use it's own print dialog? Other programs that use the uniform dialog (like gedit and Abiword) have no problem with funky page sizes. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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
