My use is low volume. The printing will be on pre-perforated 8.5 x 11 stock in a laser printer. Tearing on the perfs will give me 3.66 x 8.5 and a manual cut at 6.75 will let it fit into an envelope without needing to be folded. The real issue is the text boxes and rotated text.
Thanks - Joe On Monday, April 21, 2008 12:47 PM, Stephen Russell wrote: > >Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:47:18 -0500 >From: Stephen Russell >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >cc: >Subject: Re: Printing fancy labels > >On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Joe Yoder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I want to print a series of 3.66 x 6.75 labels with information from a >> Foxpro table. The form design includes 3 text boxes with one shaded and one >> with rotated text. My initial attempt was to do this with a Word mail merge >> but I have not been able to figure out how to control the placement of text >> boxes in the Word label designer. The label designer in VFP does not appear >> to support text boxes or rotated text. >> >> TIA for any counsel, >> >--------------------------------------------- > >What label printer are you using? I think that I did that with an old >serial based printer 10+ years ago for product labels on Security doors. > >I needed the orientation separate for parts of the label. That printer was >?????? Old roll type sorry I can see it but I have happily forgotten some of >that :) > >anyway you just passed the control codes down the serial line and not a >report form. It cranked and did like 200+ labels a min or maybe like 1200 >it just ripped. > > > >-- >Stephen Russell >Sr. Production Systems Programmer >Mimeo.com >Memphis TN > >901.246-0159 > > >--- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- >multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html >--- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** 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.
