Hello,

On Thursday - March 22, 2007 12:01 AM, Tim Doty wrote:

>I've only done this once that I can think of and that not recently so my
>memory is a little fuzzy, but:
>
>1. Create the label as a document at the size, etc. you need. In your case
>that might be something along the lines of 2.5"x1" (in metric I assume ;^)
>
>2. Insert the variable where needed
>
>3. When you print use the mail merge with the appropriate steps for
connecting
>the fields to the variables, make sure to set imposition of 3 across by 11.
>
>Although admittedly it wasn't on an Amiga I have done this. The only
problem I
>can recall had to do with duplexing and front/back printing (I was doing
>postcards, not labels).
>no, you want to make the document "page" the size of one label. Create once
>and PgS will do the replication work.

I have done all the above and I have read the help "Business Card and Label
Printing" and "Mass Mailing and Address Label Printing" many times, and I
cannot figure out what I am making wrong.

The merge file holds about 1300 addresses, to save paper when testing I have
only been printing up to 45 (starting at 1, ending at 45). What I get on
paper is one label on each page up in the left corner, the 34'th address
comes in the same position on the following page, but the 32 addresses in
between are all missing.
No error report. I have also tried to print 2 across and 6 down the only
difference is that on the second page is the 13'th address, on the 3'rd
page only the 25'th etc (I thought that if the labels were too large and 33
would not fit on the page)

Kind regards
Anders Willför

Hi ANDERS

On 22/03/2007, you wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Thursday - March 22, 2007 12:01 AM, Tim Doty wrote:
>
>>I've only done this once that I can think of and that not recently so
>>my memory is a little fuzzy, but:
>>
>>1. Create the label as a document at the size, etc. you need. In your
>>case that might be something along the lines of 2.5"x1" (in metric I
>>assume ;^)
>
>>2. Insert the variable where needed
>>
>>3. When you print use the mail merge with the appropriate steps for
> connecting
>>the fields to the variables, make sure to set imposition of 3 across by
>>11.
>
>>Although admittedly it wasn't on an Amiga I have done this. The only
> problem I
>>can recall had to do with duplexing and front/back printing (I was
>>doing postcards, not labels).
>>no, you want to make the document "page" the size of one label. Create
>>once and PgS will do the replication work.
>
> I have done all the above and I have read the help "Business Card and
> Label Printing" and "Mass Mailing and Address Label Printing" many
> times, and I cannot figure out what I am making wrong.
>
> The merge file holds about 1300 addresses, to save paper when testing I
> have only been printing up to 45 (starting at 1, ending at 45). What I
> get on paper is one label on each page up in the left corner, the 34'th
> address comes in the same position on the following page, but the 32
> addresses in between are all missing.
> No error report. I have also tried to print 2 across and 6 down the
> only difference is that on the second page is the 13'th address, on the
> 3'rd page only the 25'th etc (I thought that if the labels were too
> large and 33 would not fit on the page)
>
Seems to match what I'm doing to get my labels printed.
Have you set the "Imposition" tab "Option" selection to "Repeating" ?

Regards,
Chris.

What I had missed follows explained by Robert Williams at Total Amiga:

>I think the step you are missing is that you need to set the page size to
>the size of an individual label. To do this select a custom page size in
>"Master Page Setup" and enter the size of one of your labels. When you
>print choose "Repeating" on the imposition tab and set the number of labels
>across and down and any gaps required. PageStream will then mail merge and
>tile the labels to form a complete sheet If you need to adjust the top or
>left margins to fit on the labels, set a custom offset in printer "Setup".

I did only have a text frame of the right size on an A4 size page.

Also the EURO-characters are at the right places in my document, that's the way described by Tim Doty:

>Do you have TextFX or the Pro version? If you do then type the euro character
>as a single character in a frameless text object at the point size you want.
>Then duplicate, cut (object tool), paste (text tool) in the text frame where
>you want it. At the moment I can't think of any better solution.

Thanks to You all!

Anders Willför