Labels for Avery Size 5267 are not properly formatted in LibreOffice 3.5.0rc3

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#1

I have created bug 47165 - label functionality for creating Avery Size 5267
(U.S) letter no longer works
(version 3.5) it did work properly in version 3.3.2. Is anyone looking into
this?

If you are not sure of what I mean, please see the photos in the attachment
for bug 47165.

Thank you.

#2

Hi Michael,

I have created bug 47165 - label functionality for creating Avery Size 5267
(U.S) letter no longer works
(version 3.5) it did work properly in version 3.3.2. Is anyone looking into
this?

There has been a rather substantial amount of work put into updating
label definitions in the labels.xcu file, and this should have been
integrated into the upcoming 3.5.2 version. Hopefully, that work might
cure the problem you are encountering.

Alex

#3

Hi Michael, Alex,

Alexander Thurgood wrote (26-03-12 11:18)

There has been a rather substantial amount of work put into updating
label definitions in the labels.xcu file,

Indeed, one of the volunteer developers not inly changed the label.xcu file, but also improved the code handling all the stuff.
Really cool! It is bug 44516.

and this should have been integrated into the upcoming 3.5.2 version.
Hopefully, that work might cure the problem you are encountering.

For what I have seen end tested in a daily build: it does.
Integration is for 3.5.3 however.

Cheers,

#4

Hi Alex,

I will update bug 47165 to show it is listed as a known issue and I will
leave it open (for now).

If it is fixed in 3.5.2, I will close the bug at that time.

Thank you.

#5

...but it's still based, illogically in my view, on dynamically generated frames, rather than the more obvious tables. Labels are tabular after all and this frame fetish has frustrated me for some years.

For anyone interested, I made a set of tabular templates, both A4 and American Letter sizes some years ago and they have served me well. The only drawback is in replicating (or alternatively deleting) enough pages to meet output requirements. It would be a fairly trivial exercise to program this as a replacement for the frame based system.

Peter HB

#6

Hi :slight_smile:
Trivial but time consuming?  Is anyone able to do a load of these and then upload them as templates to the official templates site? 
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#7

Hi,

A complete set of table base label form templates for OpenOffice (also work in Libre Office) are available at http://www.worldlabel.com/Pages/openoffice-template.htm

Don

#8

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I did that years ago, together with a short tutorial although Google doesn't seem able to find it. I'm more than willing to upload again, if there's any demand.

Peter HB

#9

Hi :slight_smile:
Ahh, something on the official templates site
http://templates.libreoffice.org/
and hopefully a link to the WorldPress site would be perfect but only if you can spare the time. 
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#10

There is a link to the .oxt template that the WorldLabel listed.

http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.4-installs/add-ons-templates/OOoBlankLabels.oxt

Then there is a zipped file with these labels listed as individual files, in A4 and A5 [US letter] sizes. I have download that one, but I do not know if people would rather use the template .oxt file or the individual files.

That web site sells the blank label sheets in more colors than I have seen in most places.

Actually take a look at the CD/DVD labels. There are many different label diameters and center hole sizes.

#11

Hi Peter,

Peter Hillier-Brook wrote (27-03-12 11:40)

...but it's still based, illogically in my view, on dynamically
generated frames, rather than the more obvious tables. Labels are
tabular after all and this frame fetish has frustrated me for some years.

For anyone interested, I made a set of tabular templates, both A4 and
American Letter sizes some years ago and they have served me well. The
only drawback is in replicating (or alternatively deleting) enough pages
to meet output requirements. It would be a fairly trivial exercise to
program this as a replacement for the frame based system.

Thanks for your work on these templates.
There is a nice advantage for the regular labels: the option to synchronise all labels with changes on the first label.

Regards,

#12

Hello Cor,

many thanks for your response, despite you not having seen my template set. :wink: I created them for my own use, but then decided that they might enjoy wider usage so I wrote a simple tutorial and made the package available as a .zip archive.

With regard to your comments about synchronisation, this is a coding function and not inherently dependant upon the frame basis, rather than the more logical table approach. If the code was written in 'C' rather than 'C++' I might be tempted to fix it, but I can't stand over-verbose languages and avoid the latter like the plague. :slight_smile:

Regards

Peter HB