On Saturday 06 January 2007 05:26, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > I have been thinking about this over the holiday season and have come to > the conclusion that this is wrong. I mean Avery does not support our > project so why should we offer their label formats as the default. I > would like to see OOo offer label formats from companies that actually > do support us. For example, Worldlabel.com, not only offers labels that > are compatible but also has supported us financially with the contest. > > So what do you think? I am asking here to get some idea about pursuing > this further.
In Australia, there appear to be only two brands of labels available - Avery and Tudor (Officeworks may have their own brand, but they will simply be re-branded Avery or Tudor). I have yet to see/find any no-name/generic labels here. As for Worldlabel, this is the first time I've ever heard of the brand (I'll take a look for their website in a few minutes). I should expect, however, that their labels would mostly be direct equivalents to Avery. As for supporting them, well, just supplying templates for their labels would not be useful to most people. But, how about this - simply rename the templates in terms of the number of rows x columns on the sheet, with no mention of any branding? For example, Tudor and Avery (and I'd assume other manufacturers) produce an A4 sheet containing 8 labels in 4 rows x 2 columns. Why not cal the template simply "8x4_a4" or "8x4_us"? Just a few thoughts, FWIW.... -- Alex Fisher Co-Lead, CD-ROM Project OpenOffice.org Marketing Community Contact Australia/New Zealand http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/
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