[Discussion] Custom paper sizes?

[Chuck McKinnis]

msnyder1 at cfl.rr.com wrote:
> This morning I decided to use my new toy, OpenOffice, to address a
> Father's Day card.  The card came with an envelope that is about 5" x 8". 
> Formatting a page to a custom size in OO is easy enough, but getting it to
> print in the proper place on such an envelope is not.
> 
> My printer is a Lexmark Optra M410.  I'm using the postscript driver
> 30.827.  There is no paper size of 5 x 8 available as an option in the
> printer's forms menu, although DL Envelope is sort of close.  Even after I
> created a printer object of DL Envelope size and formatted the page to
> that size, I got a forms mismatch when printing it.
> 
> How does one add new forms to the printer driver when "Custom" is not an
> available form in the list?  Is there an easy way to print on paper sizes
> other than the supplied ones?  I can use a standard size but manipulate
> the margins or the position of the frames to force the type to print in
> more-or-less the correct place, but there must be a more elegant solution. 
> Yes, I also have a pen, but that's so 19th Century.  :-)
> 

You probably will need to go to the printer properties and add a new 
form to the driver properties.

I have yet to get OpenOffice to format and print an envelope.  I am sure 
that I could probably read the documentation and do better, but reading 
the docs is so wimpy. :)

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Chuck McKinnis
Covenant Solutions
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