Understanding the mystery of printing?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Fri Jan 30 14:34:42 UTC 2009


On 01/30/2009 09:43 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:23:00 -0430
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
>> Have you tried glabels instead of OO? It's a special-purpose app for
>> labels which might suit your needs better.
>
> Nah, I'm just stubborn :-). My goal is to tweak the .ppd file
> so everything works. I'm sure I could use a special app like glabels
> to print with a special template, but it bothers me that I should
> have to do that.
>
> I'm just trying to understand why the heck different apps don't
> print the exact same place when printing to the (supposedly) same
> page size (actually open office is the only exception I have
> found so far, so maybe open office is just busted).
>
> I'll have to experiment with OO just printing to normal paper
> as well and see if OO does everything differently.

Silly question: you do realize that "normal paper" for OO is A4, right?

poc




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