On Fri, 25 Jan 2013, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > The situation for printing envelopes has never been good; I suspect the > people who write the programs don't use postal mail, or use european sized > envelopes.
Keith, Also, strangely enough, HP no longer has (if they ever had) a driver for the LJ 5; they do for 5L, 5M, etc. but not the basic 5. Despite their building printers that last (at least, they used to do this) they drop support for them to encouraga folks to dump a perfectly good printer and buy a new one. > I've used HP postscript printers for over a decade, so I finally buckled > down and wrote the postscript for printing a simple envelope (yes, raw > postscript). And starting with a postscript file for a different > recipient, I text edit the file to make a new file with some of the fields > replaced. What a great idea! I have a book on PostScript and regularly use PSTricks (which embeds PostScript in LaTeX) for vector drawings. > The more "interesting" trick is printing labels. I used OO.o to set up pages of labels and saved them as .pdf files. I have return address labels for home and business and shipping labels. These I print with lpr from the command line. > Here's an envelope example: Thanks! This I'll make work on my printer. Since I print envelopes so infrequently, and always one at a time, this will do the job. > Postscript is a weird but understandable programming language. You > can also feed it into CUPS and print to non-Postscript printers. I have a PS module in my LJ5. > I don't suggest this to everyone, but it does point out that there > are very simple ways to get these tasks done. Rowboats, instead of > giant aircraft carrier programs like Libre Office that do everything > ... poorly. Allow me to introduce you to LyX <http://www.lyx.org/>. I very recently read a comment from a LaTeX/LyX user who shares my views on LyX rather than LaTeX: the difference is similar to coding in C or Python versus coding in assembly language. I do 95% of my writing with LyX and insert raw LaTeX as needed. Interestingly enough, until this past month I never had a client or agency complain about the appearance of a TeX-compiled typeset document. One client, who has to satisfy more senior management at the offices in a small (1,400 people) northeastern Washington town, had me modify the appearance so it would look more like a Word document! Sigh. They are rather provincial in that office. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
