On Mon, 18 Sep 2017 16:01:06 -0600 Ken Springer <snowsh...@q.com> wrote: > This is what I am trying to do, create a page of labels to fit Avery > label #18294. > > LO's label creation cannot create a page for Avery letter sized > labels, #18294. But neither can MS Word for Mac 2011 and Softmaker > Office 2016 for Windows. Printing on the label slowly moves lower on > each label and you get closer to the bottom of the page. Or it moves > up on the label. > > Why does it do this? I think it's because you cannot enter the > correct size for the height of the label. In all 3 programs you can > only enter .66" or .67" for the height. But neither number is > correct. The actual size of the label is two-thirds of an inch, a > repeating decimal to infinity, I.E. .66666666666666666 with 6's > going on forever. So, if the programmers formulas for calculating > height is limited to 2 decimal places, there is no option but to have > a built-in error.
If you select points as the measurement unit for the document then two-thirds of an inch is exactly 48 points and you can enter that when sizing row heights. https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Selecting_Measurement_Units https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Conversion_of_measurement_units It looks like it works on screen but I've no idea whether it prints correctly. HTH, Dave -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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
