Radicore Forum: How To » Printing Labels

Home » RADICORE » How To » Printing Labels

Show: Today's Messages :: Polls :: Message Navigator
E-mail to friend

Printing Labels [message #2652]

Thu, 06 January 2011 06:19

gpatti
Messages: 283
Registered: August 2008

Senior Member

I would like to be able to print labels where a label sheet may contain 2, 3 or 4 labels across a sheet. Could a new output pattern be created for this, or is there a way to use the existing patterns to easily achieve this?

Report message to a moderator

Re: Printing Labels [message #2654 is a reply to message #2652]

Thu, 06 January 2011 14:29

AJM
Messages: 2368
Registered: April 2006
Location: Surrey, UK

Senior Member

It depends how you print your labels. I have an application where one method is to send an XML document to the printer via email (using the UPDATE4 pattern), and another which creates a PDF document (using the OUTPUT3 pattern).

Tony Marston
http://www.tonymarston.net
http://www.radicore.org

Report message to a moderator

Re: Printing Labels [message #2655 is a reply to message #2652]

Thu, 06 January 2011 16:26

gpatti
Messages: 283
Registered: August 2008

Senior Member

My preference is to use PDF output. How are you putting groups of sequential data onto the same row, before moving to the next row?

Report message to a moderator

Re: Printing Labels [message #2656 is a reply to message #2655]

Thu, 06 January 2011 17:02

AJM
Messages: 2368
Registered: April 2006
Location: Surrey, UK

Senior Member

By using names such as address1, address2 and address3. This means that a single output row is constructed from 3 input rows.

Tony Marston
http://www.tonymarston.net
http://www.radicore.org

Report message to a moderator

Re: Printing Labels [message #2781 is a reply to message #2656]

Fri, 19 August 2011 15:09

gpatti
Messages: 283
Registered: August 2008

Senior Member

Need some help with this as I can't seem to get my head around it. I can't figure out how to get subsequent input rows of data onto the same output line. I'm thinking I need to fetch the next row(s) of data prior to printing the output row, e.g. in _cm_listView_print_before(), but what is the mechanism to do this correctly?

Report message to a moderator

Re: Printing Labels [message #2782 is a reply to message #2781]

Fri, 19 August 2011 18:39

AJM
Messages: 2368
Registered: April 2006
Location: Surrey, UK

Senior Member

If you want to put data from multiple rows on the same page, whether they are from the same table or different tables, you need to read Body contents (detail view - multiple). You then need to use the _cm_output_multi() method in order to read multiple rows to construct an output row.

Tony Marston
http://www.tonymarston.net
http://www.radicore.org

Report message to a moderator

Re: Printing Labels [message #2783 is a reply to message #2782]

Fri, 19 August 2011 19:47

gpatti
Messages: 283
Registered: August 2008

Senior Member

I looked at those, but what I can't figure out is how to control the processing of rows from the input table. The example describes how to get additional data from elsewhere to construct the output row, but I need the next one (or two rows) from the serial data. Once I have printed that line (in fact group of lines for address labels) I want to move to the next row in the input table and repeat for the next group of lines.

It's like trying to print a listview, but going horizontally for two or three rows and then moving to the next line.

Do you have a real example of how to achieve this?

Thanks

Report message to a moderator

Re: Printing Labels [message #2784 is a reply to message #2783]

Mon, 22 August 2011 18:48

gpatti
Messages: 283
Registered: August 2008

Senior Member

Do you have any examples of how to produce address labels from a table of names and addresses? Thanks.

Report message to a moderator

Re: Printing Labels [message #2785 is a reply to message #2784]

Tue, 23 August 2011 04:05

AJM
Messages: 2368
Registered: April 2006
Location: Surrey, UK

Senior Member

I am in the process of putting together some examples of how to print 2-up or 3-up labels. In order to make it as easy as possible I have had to make some changes to the framework code. I will release an update very shortly.

Tony Marston
http://www.tonymarston.net
http://www.radicore.org

Report message to a moderator

Re: Printing Labels [message #2790 is a reply to message #2785]

Thu, 25 August 2011 13:30

AJM
Messages: 2368
Registered: April 2006
Location: Surrey, UK

Senior Member

I have now released a new version of RADICORE which includes a new Transaction Pattern for printing address labels. Take a look at OUTPUT5.

Two samples are available in the XAMPLE application. On the 'List Option' screen there are buttons for 'LABELS (2-UP)' and 'LABELS (3-UP)'.

Tony Marston
http://www.tonymarston.net
http://www.radicore.org

Report message to a moderator