> I'd like to print address labels from jpilot, or from AddressDB.pdb > In particular, the Avery 5160 labels. Has anyone done this?
I have been pretty frustrated with the current printing state of JPilot, but have never gotten to fix all the underlying Postscript backend problems. See the long-standing bug http://bugs.pilot-link.org/view.php?id=1447 on the jpilot bugs list. Today I hacked up an independent program to format directly from the PDB, and format it for typesetting via latex and bibtex. The very same latex macro package I output bib data for is able to access the same data for address labels extraction, embedding portions of the data into letters etc. Download my script from http://www.tarunz.org/~vassilii/pub/#pilot along with the docs. The homepage of the excellent "directory" macro package, http://www.geuz.org/directory/ , contains instructions on installing it as well as gives a tiny glimpse of the possibilities of the output (basically, there is a huge flexibility in what it looks like due to both the directory package customization abilities and the general LaTeX flexibility). This is the first time I am finally satisfied how the printed contacts look since I abandoned Windows on desktop several years ago (and hence switched to jpilot from the palm desktop+outlook, which printed the contacts so much nicer than jpilot). The example format driver (i.e., basically, a stylesheet in Latex) document I am using is part of my script manpage; I'll be happy to try out others' formats or maybe even make a generator of formats. Drop me a line if you've written one, or just if you want to share your impressions having tried my script. VKh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
