On 10/03/2013 09:17 AM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > On 03/10/13 08:48, Ian Whitfield wrote: >> Hi All >> >> This past week I was given a small job to do to produce some 40-odd >> individual labels. >> >> I remembered that Writer has a Label Function so decided to use that. >> The labels were 10 to aa A4 page in two columns (Unknown type - local >> manufacturer) so I decided to use "user" to set-up the spacing. >> >> No matter what I tried the Label Box will *NOT* accept any label size - >> whatever I enter in there it changes back to 0.10cm every time!! (I also >> feel the box labels could be made very much more intuitive!! - ie >> "Horizontal Pitch" could be "Label Spacing" etc. >> >> I'm using PCLinuxOS 2013-08 and I tried with an old LO ver 3 and my ver >> 4.12 - same result. >> >> Has anybody noticed this or know of a work-round?? > > Yes! Using frames for label production has been a thorn in my hide for > years now and yet it is so easy to create a table-based template - > I've created dozens. Maybe you should do the same? It's a certainty > that Scribus is overkill. :-) > > Peter HB > >
Last time I printed labels using LO, I just used a .doc label template from Avery for the label sheets I used. That can be a pain for some people, but it works the best for me. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
