Thanks Ted, I will try some of the tips you've summarised see if they save what's left of my hair.
My main issues are layout and images not printing clearly .... so the grid and resolutions things you have mentioned should help me layout properly. I fear the quality of the printed images is either the windows print driver or the images themselves so knowing the printer is ZPL compatible (it's native is TSPL) I am going to explore Alan's suggestion and see if I can skip the report design/driver all together. Your reply is much appreciated. Regards Chris. -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech <profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com> On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: 15 January 2023 14:50 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: Small Report/Label Designs On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 8:19 AM Chris Davis <chr...@actongate.co.uk> wrote: > > Anyone got any tips for working easier on small label designs? > Sure. What is it you're having trouble with? Data, layout, resolution, spacing between labels? There's LOTs that's maddening about labels! Decades of books and magazine articles were written on report and label tricks. (Bow towards the west and the all-knowing Ms. LSN! And south and the skilled Ms. Pountney.) - Use the layout tools and label/report properties, set the grid to pixels, snap to grid on/off depending on whether it's helping or not. - Load and save a printer environment if you and your users are on the same network with the same printers (rare these days) - Lower the screen resolution to zoom a small work area (1024x768 or even 800x600). - Move elements with the cursor arrow keys (and Ctrl+ modifier keys) - Group elements together to move without losing spacing between them (Click and Ctrl-click to group) - Create a layout element like a line you want all elements to line up with and then drag items to it, snap-to-grid, then delete line. [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: https://leafe.com/archives This message: https://leafe.com/archives/byMID/lo0p123mb4988ddf04897833a43d8dfe68f...@lo0p123mb4988.gbrp123.prod.outlook.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
