I use a variety of label printing solutions. For command line (or in a bash script) I use labelnation.pl It is good if you don't mind leaving the gui world. One of the things I use it for is printing employee timecard labels on Avery 5167 labels. In this case several lines of data are extracted from a txt file. Sounds similar to what you want. Good luck Rich On 12/17/05, Scott Leighton wrote:

On Friday 16 December 2005 11:59 pm, Aschwin Marsman wrote:

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Hi,

I have a tab separated list of addresses. What's the easiest way to print them on address labels? I would prefer a command line solution.

The easiest way I found, for xmas labels, isn't command line, it's openoffice. fire up oowriter, File->Wizards->Address Data Source and set up your tab separated file as a data source. Then tools-> Mailmerge Wizard to mail merge the addresses to a label doc. There's a pdf here that helped me get it all working, just have your address data source built first, then point to it instead of the example of Thunderbird in the pdf.

http://moultriecreek.typepad.com/family/files/LabelMerge.pdf

Scott

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