Am Freitag, 25. Juni 2010 05:31:42 schrieb John Jason Jordan: > Thanks to a recent thread I discovered Glabels. If you're curious, the > html version of the manual is here: > > http://library.gnome.org/users/glabels/2.2/glabels.html > > For some time I have been thinking about creating some business cards > for myself. Avery labels (very popular in the US) has a "label" to > create business cards, although I would print to a full color laser > that I have which will print on heavy stock, then just trim the labels > out. A package of Avery's business card "labels" is very expensive. The > only advantage is that the sheet is microperfed so you don't need to > have a precision paper cutter. > > The cool thing about Glabels is that you design the label in a design > window and when you print it populates the whole Avery page with the > label design. It also appears to have data merge capabilities, although > that was not of interest to me. > > The uncool thing about Glabels is that it totally lacks text formatting > ability. Scribus has spoiled me. I want to adjust kerning, tracking, > point size down to hundredths of a point, and so on. Glabels can set > any font you have installed, but only in whole-point increments, and > there is no possibility to adjust kerning, tracking, or any of the > other features we Scribus users take for granted. > > So I am wondering if Scribus could do templates for Avery labels, at > least some like the business card template. Even if it was just a > single sheet with margins and guides set for the borders of the > standard business card one could design the card in one of the labels, > then group and copy and paste to the other labels. Or maybe the > grouping and copying and pasting could be scripted.
There is work underway to create a scripted "wizard" that uses the tremendous amount of label templates shipped with OpenOffice.org (not just Avery, but also others, like Pelikan). Also, we have a professional designer working on some visually appealing business card templates for us. I hope we can add at least some of these templates to 1.4. For the time being, using a ruler to figure out the dimensions and the coordinates of labels/business cards on a piece of pre-perforated paper may help a lot. Simply place a single card/label in the upper left of a page at the correct coordinates, then use the new Item > Multiple Duplicate > By Rows & Columns feature in 1.3.7. HTH, Christoph
