From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 12 17:25:36 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA07150 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 17:25:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA07114 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 17:25:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt4-208-166-127-248.dialup.HiWAAY.net [208.166.127.248]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA20800; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 19:25:28 -0600 (CST) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id TAA32709; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 19:25:25 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199902130125.TAA32709@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Greg Black cc: David Kelly , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Avery Labels in FreeBSD? In-reply-to: Message from Greg Black of "Fri, 12 Feb 1999 23:35:16 +1000." <19990212133516.29233.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 19:25:25 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Black writes: > 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. While throwing text out the printer in the default printer font is trivial, one requirement and field after another has been heaped on our poor Avery 5160 (1.00" x 2.625") label that I need 7 or 8 point font that should be proprotional for ease of reading plus maximum packing. In the past labels have been printed in 8 point Ariel Narrow using Office '97 Word. The good news is the agony will be over shortly one way or another. Contract is ending March 12. Bosses declared 2 weeks prior to that we're going to quit answering the phones and start turning everything off and throwing it in boxes. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message