Walt, Jack, Matthew:
I appreciate your taking the time to share your perspectives about my printer margin
label alignment problem. The next step is up to me. This week's labels may be aligned
with a paper cutter; it's a bad week. Longer-term, I need to experiment with
FileMaker and the label layouts.
Ebase would be friendlier with a margin adjustment mechanism that any user could tune
from within ebase.
Thanks,
John Andrews
At 11:20 AM 8/27/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>Good information, Walt. I plead near-ignorance (and happily so) to many hardware
>issues. I *can* say that I've installed ebase at over 60 client sites, and that the
>label layout changes that I have to make at each site vary from (a) no change at all;
>(b) add a 1/4" header, then readjust the body size back to 1" because Filemaker
>decides to change the size of the body when you change the size of the header; (c)
>play with the first layout for 10 minutes until it works, then make the same changes
>to the other three. These changes seem independent of the OS, and seem to have more
>to do with hardware settings for margins (both top and left).
>
>>I don't have any Mac experience, but Windows printers really are device
>>independent. If it works on one printer, it works on all with no adjustments
>>needed. The FileMaker default label definitions for Avery 5160 get it right.
>>You do not have to nor should you adjust any margins, header, etc. for
>>Windows printers. I don't completely understand the information in the
>>FileMaker printer definition files, but it appears that they know how to set
>>parameters that you cannot set (or at least I don't know how to) by
>>adjusting margins, etc. Here is the definition from labelsus.flb:
>>
>><FMLABEL>
>> <LABELNAME VALUE="Avery 5160" />
>> <UNITS VALUE="inch" />
>> <COLUMNCOUNT VALUE="3" />
>> <HORIZPITCH VALUE="2.75" />
>> <VERTPITCH VALUE="1" />
>> <LABELHEIGHT VALUE="1" />
>> <TOPMARGIN VALUE="0.5" />
>> <LEFTMARGIN VALUE="0.188" />
>> <RIGHTMARGIN VALUE="0.188" />
>> <DISCARDPART VALUE="No" />
>> </FMLABEL>
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