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Re: printing labels (usually from templates)



Thanks Bill.  I'm going to have to say that either the existence of these were completely unknown to me, or else if I ever knew of them I had forgotten.  I can search through wherever I may have stored such items, but where might they still be available, just in case ?  This sounds like something that ought to be made available on Brian's XyWrite.Com site.  I would certainly give them a try.

   Jordan



From: William TeBrake
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 5:40 AM
Subject: Re: printing labels (usually from templates)

Can you not make the adjustments needed within the old XyW templates of 20 years ago?  I haven't used them recently, but they still worked well within NotaBene a few years back.  A number of them were for Avery labels, as I recall.
Best,
Bill TeBrake, History Emeritus, UMaine

On 3/7/2017 5:14 PM, J R FOX wrote:
For example, on Avery 5260 sheets. 

Hi Carl,

I don't suppose this is something covered in the U2 library ? 
In the past, I've mostly used Open Office for this particular task, because it already has and recognizes templates for at least a few of the popular Avery sheets.  That would be contrasted with single #10 envelopes, for which I've used NB, with my own individual-use address templates -- when printing directly to the envelope.  But I've just run into some problems. 

The post office changed a standard address format on me, both in its 3-line and 4-line incarnations.  When I went to modify the existing Avery labels in OO, I discovered that there did not seem to be anything like the AL (adjust line leading) that I used to employ in Xy; there was only the choice between single, 1.5, and double spacing.  All I could do was change the font and/or the font size.  It's a mess, comes out looking bad.  Lots of trial and error would be required, to come up with a suitable replacement.

I'm amazed to find that NB apparently does not come equipped with some Avery label templates ?  If so, that would seem to be a major oversight.  Searching their Help for various related keywords did not bring up anything useful.  I tried to import the Avery one from OO into NB, but the format is not recognized.  I'm not sure how Xy could fare any better in that department, with or without U2.  Unless you had run up against this issue some time ago and  hardcoded something for this that did not require recognizing a strange format ?


   Jordan