Thanks Mikkel; I am going to take a look at glabels and if that is still too much of a PIA, I will try and build a script(s) from postscript templates as you suggest. On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 12:05 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > William Case wrote: > First a warning - you want to be careful about running a label sheet > through the printer multiple times, especially with labels missing. > You run the risk of labels coming off and jamming the printer. This > is especially true if the paper path bends the sheet, and/or you are > using a laser printer. > I have been warned on several occasions about this danger. Nonetheless, I have run label sheets through my various printers multiple times with no difficulty yet. Something in my Scottish ancestry prevents me from wasting a whole sheet of labels for just one label. Something from my German ancestry makes me want to put nice neat labels on each new file folder I create. I am sure I will pay the price for listening to my inner daemons some day. > Having said that, it is not too hard to set up a script that will > take a postscript template, and insert your text into it. I have one > that I use for envelopes. (I have versions that use dialog and > Xdialog to get the information, but grabbing it from the command > line would be a simple change.) > > You can probably get your template by printing the label output from > OO as a postscript file and going from there. It would probably be > easier to build a script for each label type, rather then one script > to handle multiple labels... -- Regards Bill Fedora 10, Gnome 2.24.3 Evo.2.24.5, Emacs 22.3.1 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
