Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 12:16:55 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> Cc: dkelly@nebula.tbe.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Avery Labels in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <36C33AB7.BD539D6E@3-cities.com> References: <199902111940.LAA01928@athena.tera.com>
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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. Kent Gary Kline wrote: > > According to David Kelly: > > Kent Stewart writes: > > > They have templates for WP. You just get the Avery Wizard with Office. Every > > > package of letter sized Avery Labels that I have purchased also had a set of > > > instructions for using all of the Word Processors. You do have WP for > > > FreeBSD. > > > > Actually, I don't. The Powers That Be won't fork out $50 for it. They > > without giving it a second thought they threw wads of money at Microsoft > > for NT and Office97 Pro. Corel's license agreement lets me use WP8 at > > home, but not at work. http://linux.corel.com/linux8/agreement.htm > > > > The whole thing is, NT can't dupe tapes worth a hoot. FreeBSD loafs > > along running 4 instances of tcopy, reading disk file, writing 4 tapes > > (launch it from a script so all 4 instances are reading from the same > > file at the same time then 3 get to read from cache. It also works if > > each is started separately and the file is physically read 4 times.) If > > I can generate labels in FreeBSD then I won't have to reboot just to > > print the stinking labels. > > > > Hmm. How's wine these days? Maybe it'll run the Avery label program... > > :-) > > > > If I wasn't always in such a hurry, I'd write something in TCL/TK. Saw > > where TK has a display element or something (can't think of the name > > used) which appears to map easily into Postscript. > > > > This kind of thing:: printing labels or custom business cards; > or info on 3x5-inch cards--or whatever--seems like a need awaiting > a solution for those of us in the non-DOS world. > > TK or something graphic and intuitive would seem better than > spending decades learning troff :-). > > gary -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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