Re: [libreoffice-users] Label Printing in LO Writer

On 10/03/2013 10:16 AM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> On 03/10/13 14:39, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
> > On 10/03/2013 09:17 AM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> > > On 03/10/13 08:48, Ian Whitfield wrote:
> > > > Hi All
> > > >
> > > > This past week I was given a small job to do to produce some 40-odd
> > > > individual labels.
> > > >
> > > > I remembered that Writer has a Label Function so decided to use that.
> > > > The labels were 10 to aa A4 page in two columns (Unknown type - local
> > > > manufacturer) so I decided to use "user" to set-up the spacing.
> > > >
> > > > No matter what I tried the Label Box will *NOT* accept any label
> > > > size -
> > > > whatever I enter in there it changes back to 0.10cm every time!! (I
> > > > also
> > > > feel the box labels could be made very much more intuitive!! - ie
> > > > "Horizontal Pitch" could be "Label Spacing" etc.
> > > >
> > > > I'm using PCLinuxOS 2013-08 and I tried with an old LO ver 3 and my
> > > > ver
> > > > 4.12 - same result.
> > > >
> > > > Has anybody noticed this or know of a work-round??
> > >
> > > Yes! Using frames for label production has been a thorn in my hide for
> > > years now and yet it is so easy to create a table-based template -
> > > I've created dozens. Maybe you should do the same? It's a certainty
> > > that Scribus is overkill. :-)
> > >
> > > Peter HB
> >
> > Last time I printed labels using LO, I just used a .doc label template
> > from Avery for the label sheets I used.
> >
> > That can be a pain for some people, but it works the best for me.
>
> Table based! ;-)
Well, Avery may have a spreadsheet template as well.  It use to have
them, the last time I needed one.



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