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OpenOffice offers a selection of preconfigured formats for users who need to print their own self-adhesive labels. Perl feeds the address data to the document.
Even though you might enjoy writing greeting cards by hand and mailing them, you might consider saving yourself the trouble of writing the addresses on the envelopes and use sticky labels instead. Practical laser printer labels on letter-sized sheets cost about half a cent apiece (15 cents a sheet). Not only do they speed up the postal shipping process, they are also useful for labeling wires of electronic gadgets. The Perl script in this issue reads comma-separated text and prints it line by line on the labels. Of course, you don’t have to restrict yourself to addresses. How do you like the idea of labeling the mess of cables beneath your desk to help the overworked home network administrator find the router’s power supply next time something goes wrong?
I just saw this article in the magazine. A cool sequel to this would be an article to show the setup to get LibreOffice to retrieve the address information from something like a Postsres database.
BTW, In a lot of situations repeating data is not ideal -- it would result in a few people receiving multiple copies of a mailing. Duplicate labels could be just as "wasted" as blank labels.
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store database-like data in a database?
Ken Jennings Jun 28, 2011 9:13pm GMT
I just saw this article in the magazine. A cool sequel to this would be an article to show the setup to get LibreOffice to retrieve the address information from something like a Postsres database.BTW, In a lot of situations repeating data is not ideal -- it would result in a few people receiving multiple copies of a mailing. Duplicate labels could be just as "wasted" as blank labels.