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Date:      Thu, 11 Feb 1999 14:41:05 -0600
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@nebula.tbe.com>
To:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Avery Labels in FreeBSD? 
Message-ID:  <199902112041.OAA14042@PeeCee.tbe.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Feb 1999 12:16:55 PST." <36C33AB7.BD539D6E@3-cities.com> 

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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
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