>>>>> "Bruno" == Bruno Lowagie <bruno@(protected):

Bruno> Where can one find the specs of Avery Labels?

A good place to look is in the source of the glables program. Cf:

http://glabels.sourceforge.net/

Grab the source and look in the glables-*/data/templates directory.

In the current src (2.0.2) the templates are xml files that are pretty
easy to read. The dimensions are all in (postscript/pdf) points.

As an example, Avery 6879 looks like:

<Template name="Avery 6879" size="US-Letter" _description="Address Labels">
  <Label-rectangle id="0" width="270" height="90" round="5" waste="5">
   <Markup-margin size="5"/>
   <Layout nx="2" ny="6" x0="27" y0="81" dx="288" dy="108"/>
  </Label-rectangle>
  <Alias name="Avery 8769"/>
</Template>

So the labels are 270x90 points, with corners rounded 5 points and 5
point gutters. There are 2 across (nx) and 6 down (ny), they start
at '27 81 moveto' (x0,y0) and the origin of each label in a column
is 288 points from the origin of the previous, and the origin of
each label in a row is 108 points from the origin of the previous
(dx, dy).

As the templates are XML, one should not have a problem writing java
to read them in and automate their use just like glables itself does.

-JimC
--
James H. Cloos, Jr. <cloos@(protected)>


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