Envelope print orientation

DanG · Newbie Joined: 23 May 2004 Posts: 1

Yes, I am having the same problem.

WinXP Pro, HP OfficeJet G55xi, OO 1.1.1. OO will not even provide an envelope choice for face down, flap on the left, which is the OfficeJet choice.

The Envelope Orientation choice buttons act a little wierd, too. The left-most choice, in face-down landscape, appears to be the default, and stays lit while making another choice.

I searched OO.org for Envelope Orientation, there are bugs mentioned.

GaryR50 · Guest

Marvin · Guest

I have the same problem I am using oo 1.1.0 on a Win XP box. It worked fine for a while and then started trying to print envelopes in portrait. The printer tab settings in oo envelope format are set for landscape in center, It's also printing a verticle line on the envelope. I don't know where that is coming from. I really like and appreciate oo but this looks like a bug to me. I think I'll sell WP Office to this customer because he needs to print envelopes now.

Any help would be appreciated.

hap0 · Newbie Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 2

Hello "jburney" and thank you very much for posting some help for printing envelopes. However, I need a little bit more help as to where to start. Shall I just begin with a plain document and resize the margins???

Can you possibly share with us the simplest steps for creating a document for printing envelopes?

1. New Text Document
2. Resize margins to fit envelope, etc...

I'm using OOo 1.1.1 on Windows XP.

Thanks so much in advance,

Steven

Guest · Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 6:15 am Post subject: Re: Same problem

Guest · Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2004 10:33 pm Post subject:

I had been puzzling over this problem for ages - monitoring these this forum in a hope of a solution - then it hit me - the answer was staring at me in the face. Hit the pdf button - open the file in your favourite software and print. It's a workaround I know but marginally easier than loading envelopes into the printer.

billbc · Power User Joined: 15 Apr 2004 Posts: 79 Location: Germany

Nobody seems to have replied to one of the queries in this thread:
how you rotate text. So here goes:
Click on the "Show draw functions" button, holding the mouse key down until you get a menu. There you see a "T" symbol. Clicking on this gives you a box wher you can write and format your desired text.
When you have finished, click outsdie the box to deselect the text function, then click on the text area again (once!) to get the green selection points of your text box.
Now right-click on the box to get a menu - the fourth point should be "position and size."
The lower half of the position and size menu allows you to rotate the text box at will.

All this is probably superfluous as far as envelopes go, as 1.1.2 seems to have dealt with the bug (?) .....

sallibracket · General User Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Posts: 25 Location: Utah

I discovered that the page style for envelopes and the addressee style for the address area are not set right. If you modify those to match your indiviudal printer and envelopes, it will work.

pmccrackan · Power User Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 82 Location: Perth

RE: previous post.
This is the second post I have received notice of that appears to have absolutely no relevance to Open office.
Are there some 'wires crossed' somehow?
(The referenced post (spam) has been deleted by your friendly moderator.)

Guest · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 1:36 pm Post subject:

fbax · General User Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 39

fbax · General User Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 39

For me, this problem turned out to be a procedure problem:

I noticed the "Printer" tab on Insert-Envelope dialog (the one where you click "New Doc."). In this tab, I clicked the last icon for "envelope orientation" and my problems went away. Although this same dialogue is present in 1.1.0, it was not necessary to change anything in this dialog on that release.