I was recently asked by a client to design a graphic for a mailing label (ala Avery). While working on this I wondered if there is a way to make an html template that would print to a mailing label? I tried making some templates but when I opened them in the browser and tried to print, the labels were way off the mark.
Anyone have any ideas how/if this can be done?
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Chod, an indirect way, but only by a click, is to save your label
sheet as a downloadable PDF.
Colin.
On 8 Feb 2008, at 05:18, Chod Lang wrote:
… I wondered if there is a way to make an html template that would
print to a mailing label? I
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Create a PDF from your label artwork, and supply this as a download in your HTML page.
On 8 Feb 2008, at 05:18, Chod Lang wrote:
I was recently asked by a client to design a graphic for a mailing label (ala Avery). While working on this I wondered if there is a way to make an html template that would print to a mailing label? I tried making some templates but when I opened them in the browser and tried to print, the labels were way off the mark.
Anyone have any ideas how/if this can be done?
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Thanks for the quick replies but a PDF is not what I need. The reason I want the labels to be in html format is so that I can use them with my photo gallery program to input metadata directly from the gallery. I can always put the info into a PDF but I want the process to be automatic and as far as I know there’s no programming language associated with a PDF.
Hope that explains the issue a bit more.
-Chod
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Have a read at http://alistapart.com about Print Style Sheets. That’s
going to be the ticket here. Yes, in short, you can do this – lay
out a page in Freeway and have it print beautifully. It just takes
cognizance of the issues presented by that medium.
Walter
On Feb 8, 2008, at 8:56 AM, Chod Lang wrote:
Thanks for the quick replies but a PDF is not what I need. The
reason I want the labels to be in html format is so that I can use
them with my photo gallery program to input metadata directly from
the gallery. I can always put the info into a PDF but I want the
process to be automatic and as far as I know there’s no programming
language associated with a PDF.
Hope that explains the issue a bit more.-Chod
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Sometime around 8/2/08 (at 09:16 -0500) Walter Lee Davis said:
Have a read at http://alistapart.com about Print Style Sheets. That’s
going to be the ticket here.
Is the placement and scaling precision required by Avery label
printing reliable (or even possible) across different browsers?
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If you are careful, yes I think it is.
Key things to watch:
What will be impossible to manage is page breaks. So you will need to
set your system to only display one page’s worth of labels at a time,
print, then display the next.
Walter
On Feb 8, 2008, at 3:16 PM, Keith Martin wrote:
Sometime around 8/2/08 (at 09:16 -0500) Walter Lee Davis said:
Have a read at http://alistapart.com about Print Style Sheets. That’s
going to be the ticket here.Is the placement and scaling precision required by Avery label
printing reliable (or even possible) across different browsers?
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