Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 16:30:41 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: CD-R labels Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901121626160.9536-100000@guru.phone.net> In-Reply-To: <19990110132339.B8014@caamora.com.au>
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On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, jonathan michaels wrote: > > So how do I do text wrapped on the edge of the circle in Emacs? Or > > even nice, large fonts layed out on the page properly? > > it depends on how you define the page, but seriously, this is how i got around > certain particularly peculiar 'formating' problems. then i made sure the paper > was aligned correctly in teh printer .. not a no brainer, or for teh feint of > heart when a printrun of several thousand was concerned. but a solution none > the less. Um - that's not really the problem. I poked at xemacs (out of /usr/ports), and couldn't see a way to tag a region of text and say "make this a header" - except with HTML, and printing from a browser, of course. Must be doable, it's just not obvious. What I wound up doing for labels (for CD-ROMs, it turned out) was writing a short postscript ditty that I plugged fonts & text into, and pointing that first at gv (with an outline of where the labels were), then at the postcript printer. After porting t1utils so I could download fonts (watch for it in a /usr/ports collection near you), it worked like a charm. > > When I'm through, I'll release the tools.... > > ok, send me and my still drop dead gorgious output fujitsu dl-2400 even after > all the years of hard work and we will test them .. ok ? Well, I need to find time to finish the bundle. I've got tools for doing Avery CD-R labels, and some postscipt for doing inside/outside/back labels for jewel boxes, but they all require hacking PS directly. I'm going to build something with to many command line options to do the same thing (let's see - there's the top, inside and back artwork, and left, center & right labels for the two spines, and the text strings for the to and bottom of the CD lables, so that's 11 arguments before we start getting fancy....). <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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