Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 14:41:05 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@nebula.tbe.com> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Avery Labels in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199902112041.OAA14042@PeeCee.tbe.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Feb 1999 12:16:55 PST." <36C33AB7.BD539D6E@3-cities.com>
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Kent Stewart writes: > I can also understand why Avery chose Windows. They could write something > generic and they didn't have to write a printer driver for every conceivable > printer on the market. The drivers all came with Windows or were supplied by > the printer manufacturer. > > An easy way to create a FreeBSD program would be to setup a couple of labels > in Word but print them to a file instead of sending the lables to the > printer. You have your template for printing to your printer using FreeBSD. > You could probably use sed to do the editing with a simple script. Haven't tried that lately but in the past it wasn't unusual for Word to generate a 700K/page Postscript file. The troff suggestion sounds pretty good. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nebula.tbe.com ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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