Mailing label

rbuser

I have created a mailing label report consists of 2 coolumns.
The format of the mailing label sheet should be conform the standard of
38937:
Top margin - 15 mm
Bottom margin - 15 mm
Left margin - 5 mm
Right margin - 5 mm

Distance between column - 4 mm
Height of each label - 38 mm

In my report, I set the height of column header and column footer to 15 mm,
also the height of the detail band to 38 mm.

However, for the first top couple of labels the text is fine. But from the
middle onward, the text seems shift towards the top of each label.

nicocizik

Hi Alan,

Instead of createing this label template manually, I would recommend adding
this as a custom label template to the label wizard built-in to
ReportBuilder. This is designed to handle the type of label you are using
much more gracefully. Take a look at the following article for more
information.

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Article: Adding Custom Labels to the Label Wizard
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The ReportBuilder Label Wizard contains an extensible architecture that
enables additional sets of labels to be created and registered.

Creating new label sets is a very simple process.

1. Open ppLabelDef.pas located in RBuilder\Source.

This unit contains the TppLabelSet class which is the abstract ancestor
class for all label sets. This class contains the necessary logic to
translate label specs into report specs.

Descending from this class are two additional classes TppLaserJetLabels and
TppDotMatrixLabels. All label sets should descend from one of these two
classes.

2. Open ppAvStd.pas located in RBuilder\Source

This unit contains the TppAveryStandardLaserJetLabels class and the
TppAveryStandardDotMatrixLabels class.

The label specs are declared as const arrays, with each string element of
the array representing a specific type of label.

Example code from ppAvStd.pas:

const
caAveryStdLaserJet: array [0..157] of String = (

{ LabelType, Name,
Width, Height, MarginTop, MarginBottom, MarginLeft, MarginRight,
Orientation, RowSpacing, Units, Columns, ColumnPositions }

'Address,2160 - Mini,2.63,1,4.5,5,0.5,0,0.81,0,0,0,1,0',
'Address,2162 - Mini,4,1.33,4.5,5,0.5,0,0.12,0,0,0,1,0',


As you can see in the above example code, each label spec consist of a comma
delimited string that describes the dimensions of the label and the label
sheet.

3. The LabelSet class defintion for AVeryStdLaserJet labels consist of three
methods, each containing a single line of code. These are shown below:


{------------------------------------------------------------------------------}
{ TppAveryStdLaserJetLabels.Product }

class function TppAveryStdLaserJetLabels.Product: String;
begin
Result := 'Avery Standard';
end; {class function, Product}

{------------------------------------------------------------------------------}
{ TppAveryStdLaserJetLabels.Count }

class function TppAveryStdLaserJetLabels.Count: Integer;
begin
Result := High(caAveryStdLaserJet) + 1;
end; {class function, Count}

{------------------------------------------------------------------------------}
{ TppAveryStdLaserJetLabels.GetLabelDef }

class function TppAveryStdLaserJetLabels.GetLabelDef(aIndex: Integer):
String;
begin
Result := caAveryStdLaserJet[aIndex];
end; {class function, GetLabelDef}


4. The initialization/finalization sections at the bottom of the unit
contain the RegisterLabelSet calls to make the label set known to the Label
Wizard.


5. ppAvIntl.pas located in RBuilder\Source contains the definitions for
Avery International Labels.

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

Hi,

Just wonder the number of values in the array do not match the number of
columns in the array definition ?
There are 13 fields in the definition but 14 values in the 'Address,
2160,......'

nicocizik

Hi Alan,

Sorry about that. The comments were incorrect for some versions of
ReportBuilder. This has been fixed for the latest version. It should
read...

{ LabelType, Name, Width, Height, PaperWidth,
PaperHeight, MarginTop, MarginBottom, MarginLeft, MarginRight,
Orientation, RowSpacing, Units, Columns, ColumnPositions }

The ColumnPositions entry is optional and will take the 14 to the
(14+Columns) slots in the list.


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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com