On Mon, 2017-09-25 at 12:57 +0000, Virgil Arrington wrote: > On 09/24/2017 11:07 PM, John R. Sowden wrote: > > > > > > I struggled with the method you referenced below, soliciting > > assistance from this list. The responders also could not get LO > > to > > print a stack of envelopes. We finally agreed that the LO way is > > to > > print each envelope with each document. > > John, > > That's quite an eclectic collection of vintage software. I can't > remember the last time I found someone still using DOS, an operating > system I still miss. In one sense, I envy you. I'm an old PC-Write > for > DOS fan myself, and I loved all all those uber-productive WordStar > ctrl-key combinations, which PC-Write emulated. > > All that aside, I never saw your original question to this list, but > if > I had, I might have responded with a solution similar to Brian's. I > have > been using LO to print envelopes for years and it's the simplest > thing > ever. It appears from what you wrote to Brian that all you want is > to > print your return address on a batch of envelopes of different sizes > so > that your office staff can then grab one of the pre-printed > envelopes > and put the addressee on the envelope. > > Here's how I did it with LO and #10 business sized envelopes. > > 1. I first found out how my printer feeds envelopes. Its paper > feeder > loads envelopes in the center of the feeder with the envelope turned > in > a landscape orientation with the top of the envelope facing left. I > have > had printers that fed envelopes on one side or the other of the > paper > feeder, with some facing left and some facing left, and some with > face > up printing and others with face-down printing. > > 2. Once I figured out how my printer feeds envelopes, I then created > a > blank LO document and set the orientation to landscape. Then, with > trial > and error, I figured out what margins I needed to set to get the text > to > appear at the location of a return address on an envelope. At first, > I > tried to change the paper size in LO to match the size of the > envelopes, > but then I realized I didn't need to do that. I just used my default > 8.5 > x 11 paper size and adjusted my page margins so that the address > appeared where it would print on the envelope. > > Yes, my method took a little time (about 15 minutes) and I wasted an > envelope or two (until I realized I could just print my test > "envelopes" > on regular letter sized paper, and then hold it up to an envelope to > see > if the margins would be right). > > Once I got it set up, I saved the document as an LO template with my > return address in place. As Brian suggested, I can now print out 100 > return address envelopes by simply selecting 100 copies. Of course, > my > printer's paper feeder will object to 100 envelopes being fed in one > batch, but that's a printer issue, not an LO issue. > > Now, I realize my method may be considered somewhat of a hack, but > it > works just fine. I like Brian's depiction of an envelope simply > being > another form of paper stock and LO being a tool to place characters > on > paper. It's just a matter of figuring out how the paper gets fed into > a > printer and then adjusting page margins to make sure the words appear > on > the paper where you want them. > > I also realize that, by now, you have found another solution using a > different application, but others may still be wondering how it can > be > done with LO. > > Virgil
ahh...nostalgia isn't what it used to be. Cheers Harvey -- 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
