hi, As many of you know, I have been using OOo since 2001, and the entire time, I have been having an odd problem: printing envelopes. For many years, I had effectively achieved a work around, but now that work around has failed when I started using SUSE 10.2 on a brand new machine with a brand new copy of OOo 2.0.4. My problem is that OOo doesn't print envelopes correctly. More specifically, I have pre-printed envelopes with a small space at the top of the actual physical envelopes for adding a return address that is unique to the envelope. I would rather not buy blank envelopes, as I have put a decent amount of money into the envelopes that I have, and I would like to get OOo to print correctly into that space. Indeed, when I use my old Mepis box, the exact same envelopes print fine under that version of OOo (a slightly older version of 2.xx).
More particularly, the problem appears to be that OOo refuses to print into the space that lies between very top edge of the actual physical envelope an imaginary line parallel to that edge running the length of the envelope located 8 mm (5/6th inches) from the top edge. To put it another way, imagine a space running long ways along the top of the envelope, you know, the area where return addresses are printed. That strip is 8 mm (5/6th Inch) wide. The top border of the strip is the top of the envelope. The bottom border of the strip is 8 mm (5/6th inch) from the top of the envelope. The rest of my return address is situated below that strip. I just need to print specific info into that 8mm wide strip. OOo won't let me do that. I have attempted to set the printer margins by opening the stylist and creating a page style called "envelope_02" and setting the page margins there. I have gotten to the point where I am kinda sorta okay for today, but here is the most disturbing aspect of all for this problem: the print preview does not at all reflect what actually prints, nor has it ever. Of course, I remain every bit as much a zealot for freedom in cyberspace and for FOSS, and this problem does not blunt my appreciation of the most important feature of OOo: freedom. But this is a nagging functionality issue. Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to give. I'm sure that the problem is really just operator error. Coincidentally, I am producing a documentary film about the power and fun of FOSS, and we have lots of footage from OOo con 2004, as well as footage of interviews with Richard Stallman, the Mayor Munich, the Culture Minister, and more. Please see my sig line below for our fully forkable footage, free as in beer and free as in freedom! -- Christian Einfeldt, Producer, The Digital Tipping Point <http://digitaltippingpoint.com/> See 51 hours of our raw footage here: http://archive.org/details/digitaltippingpoint
