That dreaded "Print Envelope" - Again.
For the good of me, I can't understand, why Sun can't come up with better process of printing envelopes. The designers of this wonderfull package, seem to have gone out of their way to make it complicated to perform a simple task of printing enevelopes.
For starters, the preview itself doesn't even show an image of the intended envelope. Nor It shows exactely where the addresses will be printed. Instead, it depicts a bastersized 8" x 11.5" page on the screen.
There is no provision to print Barcode on top of the sender's address.
Instead of rendering only the intened envelope the screen. It shows two standard size pages, where the first page is suppose to be the envelope.
Overall, the process of printing envelopes is ardues, unfreindly, and ends up with guess work where the text will be printed on the actual envelope itself.
I hope the designers will pay more attention to this all important feature, and come up with a better and simpler way print envelopes.Much like Corel and MS have done it.
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souser05] at [2007-11-25 23:09:29]
# 1
This is almost 3 months later. Even with the "product update 1" in place. it is STILL a rocket science to print a simple envelope. No significant improvements from SO 7.
Here are 4 easy steps to follow , where any grandma can do it with no magifying glasses.
a. Print / Envelope or Labels
b. Select size, or type
c. Selected envelope (Label) is displayed on the screen, in its physical attributes.
d. Like a typewritter, Type on the envelope or the label
d. Print the damn thing, DONE
# 2
The Insert > Envelope dialog is not the best I've seen.
One of my solutions was to simple do it once, select the envelope size and the correct orientation on the Printer tab and then choose New Document instead of Insert. Now you can drag the two frames where you want them. I put in my standard return address and formated it the way I wanted and saved this as a template.
Now when I want an envelope I open template, type addressee lines and print.
JohnV at 2007-7-5 18:00:04 >
# 3
John,
Your suggestion is helpfull. By defining (or adjusting) the parameters of such common envelope (#10). It offers "outside the envelope" solution. But seems to be usefull nonetheless.
I did follow up your advise. However, it would be much more helpful if StarOffice programmers would enable more flexibility to adjust the layout inside the "print envelope" itself.
Funny, even with the Product Update 2, which recently was released. The dreaded envelope issue still was not addressed.
I guess we will have to wait (again) for the cows to be back from the pasture to see if in PU3, they have solved this pesky problem.
Thanks
