For shipping labels, I convert everything to upper case which is simple to do,
use a nice looking font, usually in bold and am satisfied with the results. Looking at most shipping labels such as Fed Ex, Dell, etc. they seem to do the same thing, i.e. all capital letters.
For packing lists, it would be nice to have the usual mixed capital and lower case. This proves to be difficult for 100% accuracy without human intervention. You can parse the address data for spaces and periods and capitalize everything that follows a space or period. This would catch probably 99% of address information, but would not catch your "Iii" example below. I do not know how you would manage a 100% effective logic system for that.
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To All,For those of you who know about my endeavors with the Lapinator I am happy to say that Solutions catalog sold out 1400 in five days this week, our sales are up 700%, and PC magazine will be running a 4 star review in the 12/28 issue due out 12/14!To process orders I have written a database that loads PayPal, credit card, and Amazon emails, reads them, and creates a label and a packing slip. Surprisingly, many people enter their address in all caps, all lower case and combinations in between.So I tried some formatting with ICAP2 and its amazing that, just at that point, all of the exceptions then come flying in. For example, John Alexander Iii, R.w. Barrett, 113 North Ave N.e.Has anyone dealt with this issue and come up with a satisfactory solution?Jeff Ward
