Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Avery 8167 label printing

2016-02-12 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Ken Springer wrote: On 2/10/16 3:19 PM, libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: Ken Springer wrote: Slippage in the rollers is what I was thinking of. In my case, the error is consistent, so slippage is not problem. Telling the printer where to actually start the printing appears to be

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Avery 8167 label printing

2016-02-11 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Perhaps the BASIC code was only displaying the number to a few decimal places. In C, printf defaults to 6 decimal places, which isn't enough to show the actual result as any different from the ideal result. It's also possible that the spreadsheet was doing something more complicated internally

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Avery 8167 label printing

2016-02-11 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 12/02/16 1:21 AM, James Knott wrote: On 02/11/2016 03:33 AM, Steve Edmonds wrote: And there is the distinction between precision and accuracy. You can be very precisely inaccurate. I guess you've never studied Calculus, where the answer often approaches, but never actually reaches some val

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Avery 8167 label printing

2016-02-11 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 07:21:31AM -0500, James Knott wrote: > On 02/11/2016 03:33 AM, Steve Edmonds wrote: > > And there is the distinction between precision and accuracy. You can > > be very precisely inaccurate. > > I guess you've never studied Calculus, where the answer often > approaches, but

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Avery 8167 label printing

2016-02-11 Thread James Knott
On 02/11/2016 03:33 AM, Steve Edmonds wrote: > And there is the distinction between precision and accuracy. You can > be very precisely inaccurate. I guess you've never studied Calculus, where the answer often approaches, but never actually reaches some value. You can get closer and closer, but n

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Avery 8167 label printing

2016-02-11 Thread Steve Edmonds
And there is the distinction between precision and accuracy. You can be very precisely inaccurate. Steve On 2016-02-11 12:14, Virgil Arrington wrote: Thanks for the explanation. Oddly enough, it makes some sense, even to my non-techy brain. What I found interesting was that, in the spreadsheet

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Avery 8167 label printing

2016-02-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/02/16 10:53 PM, Ken Springer wrote: On 2/10/16 4:27 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 10/02/16 12:01 PM, Ken Springer wrote: On 2/10/16 8:28 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 09/02/16 11:39 PM, Ken Springer wrote: On 2/9/16 2:23 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 09/02/16 03:23 PM, Dave Liesse wrote: PDF is a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Avery 8167 label printing

2016-02-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/02/16 12:01 PM, Ken Springer wrote: On 2/10/16 8:28 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 09/02/16 11:39 PM, Ken Springer wrote: On 2/9/16 2:23 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 09/02/16 03:23 PM, Dave Liesse wrote: I've never had any luck with any of the Avery templates I've tried (although my problem has bee

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Avery 8167 label printing

2016-02-10 Thread Virgil Arrington
Thanks for the explanation. Oddly enough, it makes some sense, even to my non-techy brain. What I found interesting was that, in the spreadsheet, I got the "wrong" 3., but I wrote a simple BASIC program on my beloved Tandy Model 100 and got the "correct" answer of 4. I was excited to see th

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Avery 8167 label printing

2016-02-10 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Virgil Arrington wrote: Ken Springer wrote I remember years ago when Intel turned out a chip that had an error in it's math calculations. It was a rare happening, but when they finally admitted it publicly, trying to say it wasn't important do to the rare occurrence, it did not go over well at

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Avery 8167 label printing

2016-02-10 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Ken Springer wrote: On 2/10/16 8:28 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 09/02/16 11:39 PM, Ken Springer wrote: On 2/9/16 2:23 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 09/02/16 03:23 PM, Dave Liesse wrote: I've never had any luck with any of the Avery templates I've tried (although my problem has been mostly with left-to-

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Avery 8167 label printing

2016-02-10 Thread Virgil Arrington
Ken Springer wrote I remember years ago when Intel turned out a chip that had an error in it's math calculations. It was a rare happening, but when they finally admitted it publicly, trying to say it wasn't important do to the rare occurrence, it did not go over well at all! About 25 yea

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Avery 8167 label printing

2016-02-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 09/02/16 11:39 PM, Ken Springer wrote: On 2/9/16 2:23 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 09/02/16 03:23 PM, Dave Liesse wrote: I've never had any luck with any of the Avery templates I've tried (although my problem has been mostly with left-to-right adjustments rather than top-to-bottom). I finally ju

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Avery 8167 label printing

2016-02-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 09/02/16 03:23 PM, Dave Liesse wrote: I've never had any luck with any of the Avery templates I've tried (although my problem has been mostly with left-to-right adjustments rather than top-to-bottom). I finally just got in the habit of setting my paragraph position as 1/8" into the label; f

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Avery 8167 label printing

2016-02-09 Thread Dave Liesse
I've never had any luck with any of the Avery templates I've tried (although my problem has been mostly with left-to-right adjustments rather than top-to-bottom). I finally just got in the habit of setting my paragraph position as 1/8" into the label; fooling with the template specs didn't do

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Avery 8167 label printing

2016-02-09 Thread Virgil Arrington
I have found that, at least with 8160 labels, LO works whereas AOO does not. I realize that's not your issue, but at least *one* of the label forms seems to work better than with LO than with AOO giving me the impression that the LO developers have been a little more proactive in chasing down l