sarrel@dinghy.cis.ohio-state.edu (Marc Sarrel) (04/19/89)
Last night I found out that Hypercard _stinks_ at generating a set of mailing labels. I found two obvious bugs. I'm using the 11 x 3 sheet of labels, with no spaces inbetween. Therefore, each label is 1" high by 2.8333..." wide. I had Hypercard set up so that it thought there were 11 labels vertically on the page and that each one was 1" high. That's what the report dialog said. However, the addresses creeped up higher on the labels as you went further down the page so that the last row or two were unusable. And, Hypercard absolutely refused to print more than four lines on any label in the first row. So, is there a better mailing label program out there? Does anyone know anything about a program called Fast Label? thanks -=- Marc Sarrel sarrel@cis.ohio-state.edu | Slow is fine, but... Department of Computer and Information Science | Fast is better, but... The Ohio State University | Slow is fine, but... 2036 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH USA 43210-1277 | Fast is better, but...
serafine@nprdc.arpa (Ron Serafine) (04/19/89)
As corresponding secretary of the San Pasqual (high school) Music Boosters, I've been very pleased with the 116+ mailing labels/month I've gotten out of FileMaker II, on 11 X 3 - wide seamless labels. I am using an old IW-I to print the originals on blank stock perf-feed paper, then I (pardon the name-drop) Xerox ea. page to as many copies of labels as I need. There's a little time spent in setting up the first layout, but from then-on, it's easy. I just space out the output from the IW to match up with a blank page of labels, and there-I-go. The neat thing about using this data- base is, you can keep it current with your membership, customize the output in different layouts, and run lists in any format. Of course, it's easy for me to say: I've been using FileMaker since it first came out years ago. I think I'm using the Helevetica - 10 font, but I'm not sure & I don't have the data- base here. Regards, Ron.