[ale] Printing to non-standard papersizes

[David Corbin]

On Tuesday 30 May 2006 09:29 am, Geoffrey wrote:
> Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 23:41 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> >>> I hate to say it, but this is easy with MS products.  What's the
> >>
> >> trick here?
> >>
> >> I hate to say it, but that kind of statement is close enough to a
> >> troll
> >> to not get you any help.  It's of no use, other than to piss someone
> >> off.  Is there really any reason to throw it in?
> >
> > I think his comment does have some merit.  I was trying to print #10
> > envelopes in OO too but gave up and installed MS Office 2003 _just_ to
> > print envelopes.
>
> Where is the merit?  Contact the developer of the print driver.  That's
> what I did.  I couldn't print #10 envelopes without going through all
> kinds of hoops.  The developer let me know that the latest version of
> the driver just released supported #10 envelopes.
>
> There's no merit in posting such a comment here.  The issue is the
> driver.  The developer is the one who needs to here this.  Or, if you're
> a developer offer to help.

1) There's plenty of merit in discussing anything related to Linux here, IMO.
2) I'm not convinced it's the printer driver. As I see it, there are 3 pieces 
of software here (OO, CUPS, and the specific printer driver).  Maybe the last 
two are the same, but I'm not sure.  Either way, it's very difficult to pin 
the problem down to one or the other.

David