Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 23:35:16 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> To: David Kelly <dkelly@nebula.tbe.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Avery Labels in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <19990212133516.29233.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199902111720.LAA13282@PeeCee.tbe.com> of Thu, 11 Feb 1999 11:20:05 CST References: <199902111720.LAA13282@PeeCee.tbe.com>
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> 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 <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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