https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118391
--- Comment #9 from de...@roosoft.ltd.uk <de...@roosoft.ltd.uk> ---
(In reply to Drew Jensen from comment #8)
> (In reply to de...@roosoft.ltd.uk from comment #7)
> > > Debug: are you happy with this answer?
> >
> > Not especially. Base reports don't allow page size restrictions in the same
> > way that Documents does. That is to say I am trying to print out on an
> > industrial label printer and it will not let me set zero margins nor let me
> > make sure the text lines are x far apart to fit in constricted space.
> >
> > As it is not I have to print the Document as a PDF form and let people fill
> > out what they need by hand before printing out.
> >
> > Not ideal.
>
> Well, in the past I used to print product labels on a single wide label
> printer for ceramics shipment. In that case it also had an image for
> scanning and text, what I did is used a base form, which is just a writer
> file and laid it up in print view. Feed the form from a query with results
> for the print run, walked down the result set, while print the form for each
> record. Sounds close to what you want to do.
Broadly I suppose. Essentially we have products with different logos that must
be attached to them.
The labels are just the last part of an auditable printing system I am trying
to write. This is because it is to do with food stuffs and so duplicate labels
should not be printed unless authorised by someone signing off on that. You
don't want today's labels being places on yesterdays good for example.
I thought at first it would be pretty easy to just generate a preview in a LO
Base form and then print it straight from there, flagging the print as it went.
But like I say Base reports are not so easy to work with and trying to
constrict them to a concise layout where everything had to be in the same place
every time is frustrating to say the least.
Maybe if I carry on trying to work on it I can eventually get a template to
work but at this stage starting to look like a massively more complex problem
and I might need to resign myself to using webforms and php and accessing the
DB directly.
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