[Leaplist] Printing Challenge

Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com
Thu Mar 6 11:13:05 EST 2008


On Thursday 06 March 2008 00:41, Bruce Metcalf wrote:
> Steve Litt wrote:
> > You might find this handy, with a few modifications:
> >
> > http://www.troubleshooters.cxm/linux/envprint.htm
>
> <http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/envprint.htm> works a bit better.
>
> Trouble is, I need to print a graphic on the page as well as the raw
> data. Add to that my need to automate a mailing list of perhaps 400, and
> this seems less that sufficient.

Better still. Write a script that sorts the addresses, then one by one appends 
the address to a TeX file with the graphic. For each envelope, run TeX 
through tex to get a dvi, run dvips to print it. You'll need to experiment 
with margins to get it to print right.

SteveT


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