On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 08:11:49AM +, Curt wrote:
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> It wasn't near wordplay; it was definitely a *calembour*.
Ooooh, a new word: thanks for the gift :)
Cheers
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On 2021-05-11, wrote:
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> That is so near a wordplay that I wonder whether it was
> intentional. Envelopers who use developes?
>
To develop is to free from that which envelops; envelop denotes to
enclose or enfold whereas develop means to unfold, make visible.
The two terms in their primary
On 2021-05-10, Nate Bargmann wrote:
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> The Insert->Envelope dialog allows one to properly choose the #10
> envelope and the resulting document looks correct. Then when opening
> the Print dialog the formatting becomes stuck on the C5 size. Even
> resetting to #10 (or Com-10) results in the
to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> Difference is, the Benz 1930 guzzled gas like there was no tomorrow and
> was slow and uncomfortable.
>
> Lprng uses up way less resources than CUPS, is easier to set up and
> understand, and Just Works.
>
It is your opinion, I do not want to argue. For me it is as
On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 07:19:13PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 06:38:46PM +0200, deloptes wrote:
around 1998 you could already print with other tools than lpr or lprng.
Until now, I was not aware that an "lpr" system still is in the Debian
archive. I am running
On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 06:31:57PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 07:19:13PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> >On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 06:38:46PM +0200, deloptes wrote:
> >>around 1998 you could already print with other tools than lpr or lprng.
>
> Until now, I was not
On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 12:44:03PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 11:26:01AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> >This must be a tough bug to resolve as this one has been open almost 9
> >years:
> >
> >https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51132
>
> It's probably
On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 06:38:46PM +0200, deloptes wrote:
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> around 1998 you could already print with other tools than lpr or lprng.
> When I listen to you guys I have a respect, but you must understand that
> time goes on - this is like advertising Mercedes Benz from 1930 and telling
> me
On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 10:10:22AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
I still have clean fanfold labels that they jettisoned after lining
up the lineprinters all those years ago.
Beware David; label adhesives may die with age. Old fanfold labels
likely will not adhere, and labels applied five to ten
On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 11:26:01AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
This must be a tough bug to resolve as this one has been open almost 9
years:
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51132
It's probably hard to find developers who use envelopes
David Wright wrote:
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>> And the year is 1998 :D
>
> You can go back two more decades. I recall writing a stand-alone
> program to print a learned society's mailing labels on a Decwriter.
> For me it was an exercise, as I had only written OS360/370 assembler
> to extend FortranIV until then.
This must be a tough bug to resolve as this one has been open almost 9
years:
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51132
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On Tue 11 May 2021 at 00:17:12 (+0200), deloptes wrote:
> Russell L. Harris wrote:
>
> > I use a dot-matrix printer with tractor feed to print self-adhesive
> > address labels. There is no formatting; just several lines of plain
> > text, one address per file. There is no driver; the printer is
to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>> However lpr ...
>> ... Neanderthals get extinct at some point of
>> time ;-)
>
> ...perhaps /because/ they moved from lprng to CUPS ;-(=)
there was no compatible interface in production anymore :)
On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 09:43:37AM +0200, deloptes wrote:
[...]
> However lpr ...
> ... Neanderthals get extinct at some point of
> time ;-)
...perhaps /because/ they moved from lprng to CUPS ;-(=)
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to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> Yeah. Today you would use a client-server architecture, the server
> being an npm application running in a Docker container. The client
> is based on libelectron (the printer selection dialog has to have
> a GUI, after all). Since the stack of dependencies is so, well,
>
On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 12:17:12AM +0200, deloptes wrote:
> Russell L. Harris wrote:
>
> > I use a dot-matrix printer with tractor feed to print self-adhesive
> > address labels. There is no formatting; just several lines of plain
> > text, one address per file. There is no driver; the printer
On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 09:24:48PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
* On 2021 10 May 16:05 -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote:
I use a dot-matrix printer with tractor feed to print self-adhesive
address labels. There is no formatting; just several lines of plain
text, one address per file. There is no
* On 2021 10 May 16:05 -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> I use a dot-matrix printer with tractor feed to print self-adhesive
> address labels. There is no formatting; just several lines of plain
> text, one address per file. There is no driver; the printer is
> managed by CUPS to receive "raw"
* On 2021 10 May 15:13 -0500, deloptes wrote:
> I use very often the Apaches OpenOffice 4.1.7 (version ATM) to print
> envelopes. then as suggested I use the manual tray of the HP 420dn which I
> have here to print it. It works OOB. Here is the process
> 1. select the page size Menu -> Format ->
Interesting tip, Glenn.
I've used Impress but not Draw much. While I do have envelopes that I
will be printing the same address on a regular basis, it is the one-off
jobs that I'd like to use something simpler, I guess, or at least ready
made. Sometime the current Writer bug needs to be
Russell L. Harris wrote:
> I use a dot-matrix printer with tractor feed to print self-adhesive
> address labels. There is no formatting; just several lines of plain
> text, one address per file. There is no driver; the printer is
> managed by CUPS to receive "raw" data. I print labels using
On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 10:36:57AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
Are there other options? Looking about I don't see any. Even the
online Google Docs does not appear to have any support for printing
envelopes. I understand most people do things online but there is still
a reason to use snail
Nate Bargmann wrote:
> I've successfully used the current version of Libre Office in Testing to
> print mailing addresses on a #6 3/4 (US) envelope and so wanted to do
> the same with a #10 (US) envelope, and have had nothing but frustration
> for almost the past two hours.
>
> The
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On Monday, May 10, 2021 9:36 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> Hi All.
>
> I've successfully used the current version of Libre Office in Testing to
> print mailing addresses on a #6 3/4 (US) envelope and so wanted to
Hi All.
I've successfully used the current version of Libre Office in Testing to
print mailing addresses on a #6 3/4 (US) envelope and so wanted to do
the same with a #10 (US) envelope, and have had nothing but frustration
for almost the past two hours.
The Insert->Envelope dialog allows one to
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