Re: printing labels (usually from templates)

[J R FOX jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

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