Re: labels/mailmerge w/enscript?

GNUe Reports does this very easily as well. Supports every major
database.

On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 14:59, Carl Parrish wrote:
> Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>
> >On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Mike Starke wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>I have been struggling all day to come up with a
> >>clean way to query my database (mysql) and print
> >>more than one record (4 in this case) per sheet.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I have also had this problem. I wrote some perl scripts at one time to
> >generate some postscript for printing for some small Avery labels. It took
> >a lot of trial-and-error.
> >
> >I see that glabels at http://glabels.sourceforge.net/ "is designed to work
> >with various laser/ink-jet peel-off label and business card sheets that
> >you'll find at most office supply stores."
> >
> >I don't know if it can use your MySQL data directly, but it allows reuse
> >of its library for outside software to use and I guess it can load in the
> >data from some text file.
> >
> >If you give it a try, please let me know how it works for you.
> >
> > Jeremy C. Reed
> > http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
> >
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> Okay maybe I'm missing something but why aren't you using OpenOffice?
> You'll be able to create a datasource right from mysql then do a
> mailmerge to just about any Avery label. Or you can create your own
> layout (pretty easy). let me know if you want anymore info (or If I
> completly missed something).
>
>
> *notice I've never touched enscript so I might be missing something obvious*
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