When the labels are wide than the page your printing on there is a
problem whether the designer think so or not. The fact is if the user
has to jump through hoops to use the software then adoption will be
thin. I am not posting to be critical I am just posting to help people
"users" who experience the same issues. Lets not put square pegs in
round holes.
Philipp Giddings
Brian Barker wrote:
At 13:05 06/02/2009 -0700, Philipp Giddings wrote:
I would have to say that a template for the labels should be on the
correct page size.
I don't want to be argumentative here, but I suspect the OpenOffice
designers would say that the page size is perfectly satisfactory, in
that it needs merely to extend over the printable area of the labels and
have the correct margins on the two edges that matter - whereby the
image will be aligned. You are asking that the page size should be the
same as the paper size, and this - in the way that OpenOffice thinks -
is not necessary. Consider, for example, the printing of a brochure,
where the page is one size and the paper is different (exactly twice the
area), and the page is generally in portrait orientation whilst the
paper will be in landscape. Mind you, it happens that I don't see why
it could be of any advantage for the page size to be different from the
(known) paper size for label templates.
I don't think you have said what printer and driver you are using, so
no-one can suggest (further than I already have) how you might set the
paper size correctly for this to work with the existing page size of the
label template. Clearly the OpenOffice designers must think that this
can be done somehow. But if it genuinely cannot, then there would be a
problem.
But you have apparently found a workaround, so for you this is - happily
- academic.
Brian Barker
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