Printing problem in Pages

I have been trying to print a 5 x 7 envelope in pages and I keep getting an error saying paper is jammed but the paper is not jammed so I tried to print on a blank sheet of paper and I got the same error message. This is where it gets strange I decided to open the document up in preview and try printing it and it printed perfectly. Granted this is a workaround but if anybody has an idea how I can correct the problem in Pages 09 I would certainly appreciate any feedback.

I did check for stuck paper and there was none I also checked the print queue and that was not a problem either. So I tried a new pages document 8 1/2 by 11 loosely formatted what I wanted on the front of the envelope open using the guides put the envelope in the printer but not telling the printer that it was 5x 7 and it printed beautifully so it seems to be an issue with the document size In pages. As I mentioned before if I save the document then right-click or control click on the document and open with preview it prints perfectly in the card / open format. So somthing is up with Pages. Maybe I should try Word instead.

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/*hi
I want to print the drawings that i create in my painting application.
Following is the extract from my drawing application, which takes care of the printing part. The problem i am facing is that, i am able to print only one page, the other parts of my drawing are clipped (both from the horizontal as well as vertical direction)
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i'll don't explain the method 'cause my question is another.
thanx a lot
please!!!
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++ save the PDF
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And from Preview's inspector, I can tell that the Page Size is set to US Letter, although in Pages both the document size AND the Printing Format are set to A4.
The most curious part of the story is that my MacPro, my work MacBook Pro 13 and a white MacBook exhibit the problem, whereas my personal iMac 27" DOES NOT.
And they are all running Mac OS X v10.6.4, with ALL the most recent updates, and the exact same version of Pages!!!
I suspect that something has been changed in a framework somewhere, but I cannot figure out what it is...
Any idea is welcome!
Thanks,
K2r

I can do the same in TextEdit (although it's even more painful to control the margins!!).
My problem is not that Pages won't put pages on one sheet; It's that the generated PDF does not respect the sheet physical size (A4 vs. US Letter), thus adding wider margins all around the document.

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dan ol,
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For what it's worth, I can report exactly the same problem. I just recently converted from Outlook for Mac 2011 to Mail. I did the conversion while running Yosemite. I like pretty much everything about Mail EXCEPT that it take 2 pages to print a 1 page email!! The header appears on the top of p.1, followed by a blank space. The message begins at the top of p.2.
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