Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Labels for Avery Size 5267 are not properly formatted in LibreOffice 3.5.0rc3

On 27/03/12 22:03, Cor Nouws wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Peter Hillier-Brook wrote (27-03-12 11:40)
>
> > ...but it's still based, illogically in my view, on dynamically
> > generated frames, rather than the more obvious tables. Labels are
> > tabular after all and this frame fetish has frustrated me for some years.
> >
> > For anyone interested, I made a set of tabular templates, both A4 and
> > American Letter sizes some years ago and they have served me well. The
> > only drawback is in replicating (or alternatively deleting) enough pages
> > to meet output requirements. It would be a fairly trivial exercise to
> > program this as a replacement for the frame based system.
>
> Thanks for your work on these templates.
> There is a nice advantage for the regular labels: the option to
> synchronise all labels with changes on the first label.

Hello Cor,

many thanks for your response, despite you not having seen my template 
set. ;-) I created them for my own use, but then decided that they might 
enjoy wider usage so I wrote a simple tutorial and made the package 
available as a .zip archive.

With regard to your comments about synchronisation, this is a coding 
function and not inherently dependant upon the frame basis, rather than 
the more logical table approach. If the code was written in 'C' rather 
than 'C++' I might be tempted to fix it, but I can't stand over-verbose 
languages and avoid the latter like the plague. :-)

Regards

Peter HB


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