Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Trying to get labels to fit

Hi ptoye,

I would suggest that you contact World Label (e-mail or call) and see if 
they can help you out. If they don't have A-4, maybe there is a similar 
size which will do the job for you. Here in the US we have American 
bolts and on imported products we have metric bolts. Many of the metric 
sizes are interchangeable with the American sizes as far as wrenches 
fitting and hole size. (Thread pitch is not the same, so nuts for the 
bolts are not interchangeable.)

I found the solution to the missing labels on line. Since all that was 
involved was to have a sheet with fields in for each page of labels (so 
if I needed three pages of labels printed I had a three page template)  
that was no big deal, so no, I did not report it. Every program has 
certain ways you have to do certain things. Once a few minutes are spent 
setting things up, they work for years perfectly after that. I've been 
using Base and Writer for about 7 years to do my Christmas labels, and 
am most pleased with the results. If I was starting from scratch today 
with LibreOffice, maybe the issues I had back then with OO would not 
exist today with LO. What I have works, and works well. I simply posted 
what I did just in case somebody had any issues.  Yes, there were a few 
needless steps back when I did this years ago, but were they a big deal? 
No, I didn't think so. They were simple issues to resolve.

Don

On 12/15/2012 07:13 AM, ptoye wrote:
> Thanks No-op and Don for the advice.
>
> I wasn't 100% plain in stating the problem. All too easy when you know what
> you're talking about!
>
> Firstly, being English I need A4-size rather than 8 by 11 inch page size,
> and as far as I can see World Label only do US sizes (so why do they call
> themselves Word Label, then, or are the international sizes well buried on
> their web site?).
>
> Secondly, I should have mentioned that I am trying to produce labels from a
> database rather than a set of identical labels. Not that this should matter
> for formatting. Don's instructions give me the impression that it's more
> work than should be necessary, and that LO's (and probably OO's) label
> mechanism is irretrievably broken. Sad. Don - did you report the missing
> records as a bug to LO's bugzilla? Probably worth while - if they don't know
> it's broke they can't fix it! I'll keep a record of it for next year, but
> may continue with Lotus on my ancient machine (if it's still working) or
> even (boo, hiss) resort to MS Word whose label mechanism seems to work
> properly.
>
>
> My experience with World Label is also excellent. They are big
> supporters of open source software, including Linux, LO, and OO.
>
> They furnished me with a rather unusual label size I needed. A friend
> was printing labels on that size in MS word. Two thirds down the page
> the bottom of one label was printing on the top of the label below it. I
> used the table style template available from World Label and they
> printed perfectly in LibreOffice.
>
> Don
>
>
> On 12/14/2012 08:13 PM, NoOp wrote:
> > On 12/14/2012 04:28 PM, Don Myers wrote:
> > > Hi ptoye,
> > >
> > > About 4 or 5 years ago when doing labels for our Christmas cards, I ran
> > > across the table style forms mentioned by NoOp below. I will never go
> > > back to the standard frame type forms standard in OO and LO. I've had
> > > absolutely no alignment problems. I'll also paste here some assistance
> > > if you are using a database to fill out the forms:
> > ... snip excellent advise
> >
> > The good folks at WorldLabel now also include autofill PDF forms for
> > some (probably their most popular?) of their labels:
> >
> > <http://www.worldlabel.com/Pages/autofillpdf-labels.htm#address>

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