Re: Printing labels with Anzio

[Bob Rasmussen <ras@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Sue Boggs wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm investigating Anzio Win as a substitute for printing labels with QVTNet
> and the OCLC label program.

I'm sure when you get this all worked out that others on the list would be
interested in your technique.

> Between the online manual and message in the
> archives I've managed to get the built in print wizard in the AnzioWin demo
> to print labels in the format we need. However, I'm not having success with
> the font. We currently use Verdana but that results in letters squishing
> together and in some cases writing over one another. The manual mentions
> the print wizard works best with True Type, monospaced fonts. I know
> Verdana is True Type but must not be monospaced. I'd appreciate it if
> people would contact me off list and tell me what font works for them. I'd
> be happy to compile the list and post it back here.

It is true that Verdana is a variable-spaced, not a mono-spaced font. As
such, for it to look good, it must not be forced into a certain pitch.
Where you are specifying FONT, don't specify PITCH.

However, if you are printing two or more labels (horizontally) per "set",
that will rely on the character spacing to establish the placement; this
essentially forces you to use a mono-spaced font, such as Courier New.

(If you are printing MULTIPLE SETS across, using the COLUMNOFFSET setting,
that is a different matter.)

>
> Also, I haven't gotten to this stage yet but are people able to print
> partial sheets? Using the OCLC label program we can tell it to start in the
> second column of row 4 for instance. We'd like to be able to do the same
> with Anzio.

There is no explicit way to do this in AnzioWin/Print Wizard. The only way
would be to include some blank lines at the beginning of the document,
which you could do manually by editing your print-init file. That's a
possible future enhancement.

HTH (Hope This Helps)

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

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