Re: Custom Label Software
Teruel de Campo MD wrote:
> On Thursday 19 November 2009 10:54:44 am Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>> 'd like to get some suggestions about what software is best for making
>> custom labels.
>>
> I use OO. You can do any label you wanted with any page size you wanted. Of
> course it has a zillion templates that make life easier.
>
> 1.Open OO and choose Templates or Text and then FIle/new/Labels
>
> 2. Enter your text under Label text
>
> 3. On the brand drop down menu choose Avery Letter Size
>
> 4 Type choose 5871 Laser Business Cards for example
>
> 5. New Document
>
> and you have it. Just choose the Avery sheets you like and then selected here
> the same item and you are done.
>
> Also OO allows you to use mail merge where you can get info from database. I
> use Evolution so I can make labels from a group of addresses I want to without
> have to enter each individually. I use mainly this approach for envelopes.
>
> Synchronize content feature can be very handy.
>
> OK do no go to #5 but instead go to /Format tab
>
> There you see how the 5871 Laser Business Cards is formatted, so you can do a
> custom format if you need it.
>
> 1. go to Format within the dialog box
>
> Horizontal pitch: 3.5
> Veritcal Pitch: 3.0
> Width: 2.25
> Height: 2.5
> Left Margin: 0.25
> Top Margin 0.2
> Colums: 5
> Rows: 3
>
> 2. Go to Options within the Dialog Box
>
> Checked entire page
> Printer/setup choose landscape
>
> 3. New Document
>
> and you should be done
>
> Of course I did not spent any time measuring position etc but that is the
> process.
Yes, I second OOo. I have created labels for Avery sheets (their sizes
come built-in in OOo), and I have also created custom sized labels. To
the OP: try searching google on how to create labels in OOo if one of
the prebuilt sizes doesn't help you, but OOo works quite well.
Other than that, you have other suggestions in this thread. Plus, you
can try LaTeX if you are in to that, though it takes quite a while
getting used to.
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