RE: How to format a document for use with address labels

2006-04-09 Thread Adrian Lynch
I'll add a thumbs up for cf_avery too, works like a charm. Adrian -Original Message- From: Claude Schneegans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 April 2006 15:20 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: How to format a document for use with address labels Cf_Avery is a tag I've used in the past that

RE: How to format a document for use with address labels

2006-04-07 Thread Sandra Clark
Sam Neff was doing that with a formatting to turn a CF/HTML document to serve word. You might want to google him. Sandra Clark == http://www.shayna.com Training in Cascading Style Sheets and Accessibility -Original Message- From: applemicro [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: How to format a document for use with address labels

2006-04-07 Thread Mike Hughes
How well do you know CSS. To do what you want, you need to use CSS classes (styles) to set the fonts and size of everything. You also need to look at the client settings for their printer, like remove header and footer and set margins. It can be done, it just takes a little time to set-up. GOOD

Re: How to format a document for use with address labels

2006-04-07 Thread Ray Champagne
Cf_Avery is a tag I've used in the past that sounds right up you alley. I haven't been following this thread, so sorry if this has already been suggested. http://tinyurl.com/gvg67 Ray Sandra Clark wrote: Sam Neff was doing that with a formatting to turn a CF/HTML document to serve word.

RE: How to format a document for use with address labels

2006-04-07 Thread Ben Nadel
My suggestion would be to get a MS Word template that has the labels formatted as you would want them (templates like this are usually available). Then, save that as a web archive file (MHT) File Save As. Then use CF to output that MHT file (with the proper label data) and stream it with a

Re: How to format a document for use with address labels

2006-04-07 Thread Ray Champagne
This is essentially what the custom tag does for you, without all that leg work. You just input the label type and the label data, and bang, the tag opens up word with the labels pre-formatted and ready to print. Ben Nadel wrote: My suggestion would be to get a MS Word template that has the

Re: How to format a document for use with address labels

2006-04-07 Thread Claude Schneegans
Cf_Avery is a tag I've used in the past that sounds right up you alley. I'll second the proposal. CF_Avery works perfectly well. You may have to find equivalences for label format, since the code may change depending on the quantity of sheets in the package. A visit to the Avery's Web site

Re: How to format a document for use with address labels

2006-04-07 Thread applemicro
A big thanks to everyone for there help on this. On 4/7/06, Claude Schneegans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cf_Avery is a tag I've used in the past that sounds right up you alley. I'll second the proposal. CF_Avery works perfectly well. You may have to find equivalences for label format, since

RE: How to format a document for use with address labels

2006-04-07 Thread mark
There was a avery label printing report put out by ??? It is a cfr and looked quite nice, you picked out the avery label you wanted to use and it formatted it correctly...you can search for it on MXNA -Original Message- From: applemicro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 07,

Re: How to format a document for use with address labels

2006-04-07 Thread Denny Valliant
Another way that works alright is to create a template in word, put a special char in each label, save it as RTF (plain text w/ formatting info), and modify the RTF text prior to sending it to the user, replacing the special char with whatever you want in the label. Not as nice as the table