Bruce.Long@f53.n114.z1.fidonet.org (Bruce Long) (10/12/90)
In the office where I work the main use of Hypercard 1.2x was for
printing labels. Hypercard did a superb job of printing standard
33-to-a-sheet labels on the laserwriter (up to 6 lines), with the
default label setting. (Of course, "larger print area" must be
selected in the Page Setup dialog.) But there were two minor
problems with label printing with Hypercard 1.2x:
1. Due to a bug, only one copy could be printed at a time. This
meant that if you want many sheets of return address labels
each sheet must be printed individually.
2. There was no way to print just certain labels from a stack.
It was all or nothing.
As Hypercard 2.0 fixed these two problems I decided to try the
new version for printing labels. However I immediately discovered
that there was no preset equivalent to the default in the old
Hypercard. After struggling for half an hour to set up a report
template equivalent to the old default (6 lines of 33-to-a-sheet
labels), I gave up. If it can be done I sure can't figure out how.
If anyone out there has had success in creating such a template,
please e-mail me a copy of a stack containing the template.
Meanwhile, it's back to Hypercard 1.2x for me.
Bruce Long
Department of Mathematics
Arizona State University
icbal@asuvm.inre.asu.edu
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