From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 11 12:41:47 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA14190 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 12:41:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from PeeCee.tbe.com (firewallx.tbe.com [192.88.94.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA14184 for ; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 12:41:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@PeeCee.tbe.com) Received: from PeeCee.tbe.com (localhost.tbe.com [127.0.0.1]) by PeeCee.tbe.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA14042; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 14:41:06 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@PeeCee.tbe.com) Message-Id: <199902112041.OAA14042@PeeCee.tbe.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 From: David Kelly Reply-To: David Kelly To: Kent Stewart cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Avery Labels in FreeBSD? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 11 Feb 1999 12:16:55 PST." <36C33AB7.BD539D6E@3-cities.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 14:41:05 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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