Re: [users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-10 Thread James Knott
Mark C. Miller wrote: For $10 I bought a neat little toy. There's a strap that goes around the wrist with a metal plate under part of it. The other end is an alligator clip to attach to the case. Static solved. Or at least that's what the package says. That's an anti-static wrist strap.

[users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-10 Thread Mark C. Miller
On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:11:37 -0500, James Knott wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> Also, ensure the power is disconnected while cleaning a computer. >>> >>> >> Actually, if I don't have a ground-only cable handy (that I made from a >> regular power cable) then I prefer to leave the electricity connec

Re: [users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-10 Thread Barbara Duprey
Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/01/07 10:28 PM Barbara Duprey wrote: Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/01/07 7:27 PM Barbara Duprey wrote: That's what I'd hoped, but when I actually tried it, the text was way off-center towards the center fold (when compared to the same file sent directly to the prin

Re: [users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-08 Thread Barbara Duprey
Dotan Cohen wrote: The direct printing works fine, but thanks for the tip about the page preview. And the printing to PrimoPDF worked fine until last night, between two tries. The first worked; on a different document with the same layout,but only four pages. Then when the second one brought up A

Re: [users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
> The direct printing works fine, but thanks for the tip about the page > preview. And the printing to PrimoPDF worked fine until last night, between > two tries. The first worked; on a different document with the same > layout,but only four pages. Then when the second one brought up Adobe, it > in

Re: [users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Vacuum it out - don't blow air into it as that will just redistribute > the dust and hairballs. Occasionally I make some pretty good spending > money from laptop users that would use compressed air etc., to "clean" > their laptops; the only think that does is pack the dust in deeper. > So does v

[users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2010/01/07 10:28 PM Barbara Duprey wrote: Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/01/07 7:27 PM Barbara Duprey wrote: That's what I'd hoped, but when I actually tried it, the text was way off-center towards the center fold (when compared to the same file sent directly to the printer). Each page image

Re: [users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Barbara Duprey
Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/01/07 7:27 PM Barbara Duprey wrote: Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/01/07 4:22 PM Barbara Duprey wrote: Larry Gusaas wrote: I'm using version 9.2. The feature may be new in version 9. You can find it in the print dialogue under "Page Scaling:". Ah! I missed that

[users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2010/01/07 7:27 PM Barbara Duprey wrote: Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/01/07 4:22 PM Barbara Duprey wrote: Larry Gusaas wrote: I'm using version 9.2. The feature may be new in version 9. You can find it in the print dialogue under "Page Scaling:". Ah! I missed that one somehow -- didn't

[users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread NoOp
On 01/07/2010 05:48 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: > NoOp wrote: ... >> Vacuum it out - don't blow air into it as that will just redistribute >> the dust and hairballs. Occasionally I make some pretty good spending >> money from laptop users that would use compressed air etc., to "clean" >> their laptop

Re: [users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Barbara Duprey
NoOp wrote: On 01/07/2010 04:36 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: I suspect my system may be slowly dying, strange things are happening frequently "Strange things" is usually one of three things; 1) overheating CPU 2) bad memory 3) faulty power supply I would

Re: [users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Barbara Duprey
Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/01/07 4:22 PM Barbara Duprey wrote: Larry Gusaas wrote: I'm using version 9.2. The feature may be new in version 9. You can find it in the print dialogue under "Page Scaling:". Ah! I missed that one somehow -- didn't think of this as a scaling issue, and I'd ha

[users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread NoOp
On 01/07/2010 04:36 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> I suspect my system may be slowly dying, strange things >>> are happening frequently >>> >> >> "Strange things" is usually one of three things; >> 1) overheating CPU >> 2) bad memory >> 3) faulty power supply >> >> I would

Re: [users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Barbara Duprey
John King wrote: Barbara Duprey wrote: RA Brown wrote: Barbara Duprey wrote: I can certainly share it -- here's a link: http://www.4shared.com/file/190755756/afb1a777/Deathtrap_Internal.html. You should be able to download it from there. Note that this file has several blan

[users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2010/01/07 4:22 PM Barbara Duprey wrote: Larry Gusaas wrote: I'm using version 9.2. The feature may be new in version 9. You can find it in the print dialogue under "Page Scaling:". Ah! I missed that one somehow -- didn't think of this as a scaling issue, and I'd have to redesign my pag

Re: [users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Barbara Duprey
Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/01/07 3:12 PM Barbara Duprey wrote: Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/01/07 11:13 AM Barbara Duprey wrote: I'm working on a project that needs to create PDF files of brochures. OOo seems to honor the brochure setting (Tools > Options, OpenOffice.org Writer, Pages, Broc

[users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread John King
Barbara Duprey wrote: > RA Brown wrote: >> Barbara Duprey wrote: >> >> >>> I can certainly share it -- here's a link: >>> http://www.4shared.com/file/190755756/afb1a777/Deathtrap_Internal.html. >>> You should be able to download it from there. Note that this file has >>> several blank pages, it

[users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2010/01/07 3:12 PM Barbara Duprey wrote: Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/01/07 11:13 AM Barbara Duprey wrote: I'm working on a project that needs to create PDF files of brochures. OOo seems to honor the brochure setting (Tools > Options, OpenOffice.org Writer, Pages, Brochure) for direct prin

Re: [users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Barbara Duprey
Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2010/01/07 11:13 AM Barbara Duprey wrote: I'm working on a project that needs to create PDF files of brochures. OOo seems to honor the brochure setting (Tools > Options, OpenOffice.org Writer, Pages, Brochure) for direct printing, but not for exporting to PDF. Am I miss

[users] Re: Printing Brochures to PDF

2010-01-07 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2010/01/07 11:13 AM Barbara Duprey wrote: I'm working on a project that needs to create PDF files of brochures. OOo seems to honor the brochure setting (Tools > Options, OpenOffice.org Writer, Pages, Brochure) for direct printing, but not for exporting to PDF. Am I missing something here? I