On Thursday 15 December 2005 18:37, Gregory Novak wrote: > A note while people are on the subject: I recently wanted to print > address labels, which involves placing ~80 of the same thing on a > sheet. > > I originally used TeX for this, since it's trivially easy to write a > script that reproduces the address 80 times. Getting the labels > exactly placed on the page eventually made this approach too > frustrating. I'm sure a TeX expert could get it to work, but not me. > > I then did it in Scribus by making an EPS file with the address and > making ~80 pictures pointing to the same EPS file. This worked fine > in this case, but I can't help thinking that some power is lost by not > having a full fledged scripting mechanism available.
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