From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 12 05:56:16 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA13538 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 05:56:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpha.comkey.com.au (alpha.comkey.com.au [203.9.152.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA13518 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 05:56:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@comkey.com.au) Received: (qmail 29234 invoked by uid 1001); 12 Feb 1999 13:35:16 -0000 Message-ID: <19990212133516.29233.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.04 06-Feb-1999 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 23:35:16 +1000 From: Greg Black To: David Kelly Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Avery Labels in FreeBSD? References: <199902111720.LAA13282@PeeCee.tbe.com> In-reply-to: <199902111720.LAA13282@PeeCee.tbe.com> of Thu, 11 Feb 1999 11:20:05 CST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Other than Applix, WP, or StarOffice, does anyone know of a nice simple > program for printing Avery labels, 8.5" x 11" sheets, Postscript > printer? If I can find a solution (no budget) then I can free that > precious 1G occupied by NT 4.0 and Office97. > > The current solution uses a template or something in Word. The operator > types the appropriate label in whatever box(s). Copy/paste to duplicate. > Then runs the sheet thru the printer. Don't always print full sheets so > sometimes a sheet goes thru the printer several times before its filled. > > The point is to neatly get lots of info on a sticker rather than write > it sloppily by hand. It's not clear to me if you're looking for something that just acts like a smart typewriter with standard courier output or if you're looking for typeset quality (proportional fonts, filling, justification, etc). If it's the former, it's a trivial shell script of the kind you might give a sysadmin job applicant to see if s/he knew which way was up. If the latter, it might involve learning PostScript or groff or TeX -- but it's also trivial with any of these tools. Generally speaking, these things are so trivial that nobody does them in a sufficiently general way to be really useful to another site, which means that everybody rolls their own idea of the solution. -- Greg Black To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message