Openoffice Writer ??

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sat Sep 18 20:02:18 UTC 2010


On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 11:31 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 13:24 -0400, Jim wrote:
> > Using Writer to make Business Cards.
> > When I print the cards the Icon and heading is printed but the body 
> > where Ph.# url and email in center of card is printed out as small 
> > rectanglar boxes , no text.
> 
> You're using the wrong tool for the job.  OO Writer is a dandy
> general-purpose word processor, but if you need precision placement of
> text and graphics on a page, you should consider using Scribus instead.
> 
> Having said that, when you see rectangular boxes instead of text it
> generally indicates that you're printing with a font that you don't
> actually have, or that lacks the characters that you're using.

Too much like work. There's a very functional tool specifically for
labels and business cards:

yum install glabels

poc



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