Got it, and thanks again.
This does import directly into NB, as is. Xy-4 just shows a row of formatting
deltas. No divider grid lines or other guidance apparently -- with either.
I'll have to play around with this.
Nothing is going to be as simple or straightforward as was doing this in Open
Office, it seems.
I found a bunch of other various templates that I had apparently either made or
adopted back in the Xy-3 days, replete with PT table deltas etc. And I have
essentially zero recall of any of it, nor of any customized templates I found
in some of my Xy-4 directories. But I must have used this stuff at one time.
Pretty bad, huh ? After some range of years, it gets to be like you're
deciphering hieroglyphics, with very minimal background for doing so. This
happens with other stuff too.
:-(
Jordan
From: William TeBrake <tebrake@xxxxxxxxx>
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 9:16 AM
Subject: Re: printing labels (usually from templates)
You can download them here: http://www.penticoff.com/nb/utilities/templates.htm
Good Luck,
Bill
On 3/8/2017 12:05 PM, J R FOX wrote:
Thanks Bill. I'm going to have to say that either the existence of these were
completely unknown to me, or else if I ever knew of them I had forgotten. I
can search through wherever I may have stored such items, but where might they
still be available, just in case ? This sounds like something that ought to be
made available on Brian's XyWrite.Com site. I would certainly give them a try.
Jordan
From: William TeBrake <tebrake@xxxxxxxxx>
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 5:40 AM
Subject: Re: printing labels (usually from templates)
Can you not make the adjustments needed within the old XyW templates of 20
years ago? I haven't used them recently, but they still worked well within
NotaBene a few years back. A number of them were for Avery labels, as I
recall. Best, Bill TeBrake, History Emeritus, UMaine
On 3/7/2017 5:14 PM, J R FOX wrote:
For example, on Avery 5260 sheets.
Hi Carl,
I don't suppose this is something covered in the U2 library ?
In the past, I've mostly used Open Office for this particular task, because
it already has and recognizes templates for at least a few of the popular Avery
sheets. That would be contrasted with single #10 envelopes, for which I've
used NB, with my own individual-use address templates -- when printing directly
to the envelope. But I've just run into some problems.
The post office changed a standard address format on me, both in its 3-line
and 4-line incarnations. When I went to modify the existing Avery labels in
OO, I discovered that there did not seem to be anything like the AL (adjust
line leading) that I used to employ in Xy; there was only the choice between
single, 1.5, and double spacing. All I could do was change the font and/or the
font size. It's a mess, comes out looking bad. Lots of trial and error would
be required, to come up with a suitable replacement.
I'm amazed to find that NB apparently does not come equipped with some Avery
label templates ? If so, that would seem to be a major oversight. Searching
their Help for various related keywords did not bring up anything useful. I
tried to import the Avery one from OO into NB, but the format is not
recognized. I'm not sure how Xy could fare any better in that department, with
or without U2. Unless you had run up against this issue some time ago and
hardcoded something for this that did not require recognizing a strange format
?
Jordan
