Printing compressed paging slips

[Bob Rasmussen <ras@xxxxxxxxxx>]

A while ago I volunteered that AnzioWin's Print Wizard (PW) could provide a
solution where someone had requested a way to compress paging slips to print
multiple items per page. Several people wrote me off-list to request this
information, and I was then in the position of having to put my program where
my mouth was. Oops! It appears I spoke (emailed) prematurely.

I was picturing in my mind a slip that was half a page or so, and thinking I
could simply control the pagination. However, when I saw the actual format of
the slip, I changed my tune. 

The current paging slip design (are there alternatives here?) spreads the
information out over the entire page, apparently with the goal of using the
slip as an actual mailing label, complete with return address. The only
flexibility the Print Wizard would give to this would be to print it smaller,
and thereby compress two pages onto one. PW has NO feature to actually remove
text, or even white space, from the printed document.

I talked to one librarian who deals with about 600 page slips a day. Books are
pulled, but not necessarily mailed. In cases like this, it would seem that a
"paging list report" might be designed, which would better fit the scenario --
a better tool for the job (you can make a screwdriver work as a hammer,
sometimes, but not vice versa). This would have to come from III.

So it appears that I have shot my mouth off, a sin I've committed once or
twice before. Mea culpa.

-- 
Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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