[aklug] Re: Printing Return Address Labels the unix Way

From: barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net>
Date: Sun Dec 16 2007 - 23:49:18 AKST

Never thought of doing it that way...good idea.

It is possible to do it with OpenOffice, but unfortunately, I don't
feel it is as simple as it could be. These aren't the specific steps,
but should be enough to get the job done.

BTW, I found this in the help files of OO 2.0.

Basically you create a data source
Then you create a new document picking the avery label of choice.
If you are creating more than one page worth, you have to duplicate the
page that is created. I use select all, then copy, and paste until I
have the number of pages I need.

Then you tell the data to fill in the fields.

That should do it. Fielder's way may be easier in the end though.

Mike B.

Quoting Fielder George Dowding <fgdowding@iceworm-enterprises.org>:

> Greetings all, earlier today Doug presented me with the problem of
> getting a Word document to print correctly in OO Writer. It turned out
> the document simply prints out return addresses labels. The Avery labels
> are four across and twenty down. Well, there is an easier way.
>
> I am reminded not to be too hard on Windows and Word users because they
> don't have much to work with. We in the unix world are spoiled because
> we expect to have all the tools that one might need to do little tasks
> such as this. Each of us probably have a preferred technique, and in
> this case, my preferred technique is to whip up a quick little
> PostScript program with the help of vim and gv.
>
> This is a first cut. I don't have the dimensions and the exact layout of
> the labels which will affect the point size of the font, the leading,
> and other dimensions needed to get the graphite in the right places on
> the cellulose. Further, I have not yet added the Document Structuring
> Conventions which make life easy when using the program on different
> platforms and printing utilities. Finally, like Arthur's comments, I
> probably have missed a point or two in good programming technique.
> Nevertheless, here it is for everyone to try. Just copy the text between
> the START and END to a plain text file with the extension of ps, i.e.:
> returnAddressLabels.ps
>
> Then simply call the GhostView utility to display on your monitor. On my
> boxen I have gv, so at my regular user login prompt, I simply enter:
>
> fgd@seth:~/psfiles/addressLabels$ gv returnAddressLabels.ps &
>
> x-x-x-x-x-x START PostScript x-x-x-x-x-x
> /leading {-10} def
>
> /LabelWidth { 2.125 72 mul } def
>
> /LeftEdge {18} def
>
> /TopEdge {778} def
>
> /Helvetica findfont 9 scalefont setfont
>
>
> /printAddress {
> (First Line of Address) dup show
> stringwidth pop neg leading rmoveto
>
> (Second Line of Address) dup show
> stringwidth pop neg leading rmoveto
>
> (Third Line of Address) dup show
> stringwidth pop neg -2 leading mul rmoveto
> } def
>
> /printRow {
> 0 1 3 {
> printAddress
> LabelWidth 0 rmoveto
> } for
> } def
>
> LeftEdge TopEdge moveto
>
> 0 1 19 {
> printRow
> -4 LabelWidth mul
> 3.75 leading mul rmoveto
> } for
>
>
>
> showpage
> x-x-x-x-x-x END PostScript x-x-x-x-x-x
> --
> Mit freundlichen Gr=FC=DFen / Best regards Debian/GNU Linux
> Fielder George Dowding, Chief Iceworm "etch" Testing
> dba Iceworm Enterprises, Anchorage, Alaska User Number 269482
> Since 1976 - Over 30 Years of Service. "Seth" 186667
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