This is something I am looking into, too. But to throw an answer to your problem, try the following:
I have developed a dynamic phone list for my company based on an IIS component called ABCpdf from
I'd have to say the ASP pages I developed are an awesome piece of code. It takes all the employee's info from a database, and generates a PDF phone list based on the users' selection, a seperate up-to-date dynamically generaetd PDF for each region of the company. I then developed a set of web pages for a few key admin people to maintain the content of the phone list.
You could try doing a similar thing with your mailing labels. Here are some tools might need:
[ul][li]IIS or some kind of web server[/li]
[li]A Copy of ABCpdf from websupergoo (the cost is relatively cheap)[/li]
[li]ASP coding experience[/li][/ul]
Using VBScript/ASP, you can use the ABCpdf component to dynamically generate a label page, or multiple pages. To layout the page properly, you would need to use the exact measurements that Avery publishes for their labels, and code your program accordingly.
My request to all you wonderful Tek-Tip Gurus out there is: I would like to find a canned server-side label-generating solution. I don't have enough time to dedicate to developing this, since there is enough interest to warrant me finding a solution, but not enough interest to justify my time.
Or... if anybody wants to join me, help me create a component or open source Code that can do this, to share with the community, I could noodle with some code on my spare time...
Earnie Eng