Openoffice Letterhead
Andrew Farris
flyindragon1 at aol.com
Thu Sep 24 21:26:12 UTC 2009
On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 09:49 -0600, drew.einhorn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to scan some letterhead and set things up so
> my grandsons principal can print the school letterhead
> along with the document.
[snip]
> 1) Instead of filling the entire page. I just fills the area inside
> the margins.
> How do I get the background to fill the entire page?
I don't know if this helps, but I've got a workaround that I always use
to get a full-page background and maintain borders, w/o inserting the
picture each time:
1. Format > Page | Background Tab > As: Graphic
2. Choose > "choose your picture" (area fill if you wish)
3. | Page Tab > Margins
4. Set all margins to 0.00"
5. |Borders Tab > Line Arrangement > "Set All 4 borders button"
6. Line > Style > (default is ok.)
7. Line > Style > Color: White
8. Spacing to contents > (set to the value you want for your
borders).
This method gets you a full-page background (with step 1-4), and gets
you a text area with honored borders (step 5-8). The only side effect is
a thin white border at the veeery edge of the page (step 7) that most
printers can't print, so it doesn't really matter what color you pick...
I just chose white so that on the off-chance that you had a printer that
COULD print full-page like that, you would get a minimum amount of
odd-ness at the edge of the page.
> 2) Some folks in the office still insist on MS-Word, when I save as .doc,
> I lose the background. I may have to try again on one of their computers
> with MS Word (yuck).
This appears to be an OpenOffice.org flaw. I tried saving a doc w/ a
background, then opened it up with OpenOffice and the background didn't
appear. However, I opened the same document with a copy of msoffice doc
viewer (the free thing) in wine, and the background appeared as
expected. I don't know why OOo wont show the background, even though it
clearly was able to save it correctly... who knows.
hope that helps
--
Andrew
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