Cor Nouws wrote:
Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
Mathias Bauer wrote:
Could you explain why you think that a table is better than frames? If
it's only the selection thing I don't see a difference here as a
"select all" works in both cases (though you have to press it twice for
the frames).
Certainly. The first thing to come to mind is the ability to vertically
centre the text in a table cell - highly desirable in label usage.
This is indeed an important drawback of the use of frames. It forces me to do
some improvisation, that I don't like to ask from most of my students.
Vertical alignment inside frames would be great. (Might be possible to share
code with vertical page-alignment ;-) )
I don't like saying anything in favour of frames, but it certainly provides an
interesting model for student problem solving:-)
Secondly, I find it far easier (and natural) to knock up a table for any
unique label stock: symmetric cells are, after all, tabular in nature.
Creating and positioning frames is, to my way of thinking, a very long
way around the houses to reach a simple solution.
OK, but OTOH, changing one label (frame) and just hitting 'Synchronize
labels' to make all the same (see my other post), is very convenient. Also:
no stability probs with all the frames on one page.
I assume that all you are addressing (intentional pun:-)) here is the label
content: there seems little point in changing any dimensional parameters of what
is, for labelling purposes, a fixed size box. In that case, changing a single
style - the table content - will achieve a similar result.
I don't understand the "stability" problems, perhaps because I've never seen any
in my table-based templates. And if you need to use a new label stock, I'll
wager that my 2 minute table will be quicker to produce than any frame-based
solution.
Another advantage of the current label-pages, is that one page will do for 1
to n addresses (sets of data). With the currently available
table-label-documents, you have to adapt the document for the number of
address. But I assume that the 'single page serves all number' can be
achieved for table-label-documents as well.
That's correct the way things are, but it wouldn't be very hard to incorporate
in a table-based system. Even the "competition" have achieved it:-)
Regards
Peter HB
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