Openoffice Letterhead

[Andrew Farris]

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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