From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 12 16:31:20 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA13755 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 16:31:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from guru.phone.net (guru.phone.net [209.157.82.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA13747 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 16:31:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@phone.net) Received: (qmail 15152 invoked by uid 100); 13 Jan 1999 00:30:41 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Jan 1999 00:30:41 -0000 Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 16:30:41 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Meyer To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: CD-R labels In-Reply-To: <19990110132339.B8014@caamora.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, jonathan michaels wrote: > > So how do I do text wrapped on the edge of the circle in Emacs? Or > > even nice, large fonts layed out on the page properly? > > it depends on how you define the page, but seriously, this is how i got around > certain particularly peculiar 'formating' problems. then i made sure the paper > was aligned correctly in teh printer .. not a no brainer, or for teh feint of > heart when a printrun of several thousand was concerned. but a solution none > the less. Um - that's not really the problem. I poked at xemacs (out of /usr/ports), and couldn't see a way to tag a region of text and say "make this a header" - except with HTML, and printing from a browser, of course. Must be doable, it's just not obvious. What I wound up doing for labels (for CD-ROMs, it turned out) was writing a short postscript ditty that I plugged fonts & text into, and pointing that first at gv (with an outline of where the labels were), then at the postcript printer. After porting t1utils so I could download fonts (watch for it in a /usr/ports collection near you), it worked like a charm. > > When I'm through, I'll release the tools.... > > ok, send me and my still drop dead gorgious output fujitsu dl-2400 even after > all the years of hard work and we will test them .. ok ? Well, I need to find time to finish the bundle. I've got tools for doing Avery CD-R labels, and some postscipt for doing inside/outside/back labels for jewel boxes, but they all require hacking PS directly. I'm going to build something with to many command line options to do the same thing (let's see - there's the top, inside and back artwork, and left, center & right labels for the two spines, and the text strings for the to and bottom of the CD lables, so that's 11 arguments before we start getting fancy....).