On 08/09/2010 17:39, Maurice Batey wrote:
On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:50:02 -0400, John Kaufmann wrote:
leaves us wondering what is the point of Writer's envelope
provisions.
I did try them, and found them cumbersome compared with the 'envelope
template' approach.
Perhaps in the meantime they have become slicker, but as I don't do
a lot of envelope printing I'm happy to stay with the simple method
for the time being, but I will - some time - take another look.
(The 'envelope template' approach is particularly handy for Xmas
envelopes. I just load a pack of envelopes into the printer, call up
the template and address list, and Copy/Paste the addresses from one
into the other, one by one.)
How delightedly old fashioned :-) I just knock off a sheet or two of
labels from a spreadsheet-based address book. That way the household
management can help me with the envelopes.
Incidentally I have just re-visited the stuff I wrote in Chapter 11 of
the Writer Guide and I can't see the problem. Of course it's only useful
for industrial envelope production: for a small number I still agree
that the simple template method is preferable.
There are so many different ways of skinning this particular cat that it
has to come down to personal preferences, but expecting some
developer(s) to change ancient code, that admittedly could have been
written in a more helpful way, is just day-dreaming.
Peter HB
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