Mailing Labels

[FastJimmy]

I was wondering if anyone at all has any experience printing up mailing labels with Cold Fusion. I am working on an application right now that needs to be able to do this.

Basically what it needs to do is take shipping info (name, address, city, state, zip) for a number of different addresses and print them onto a sheet of mailing labels. (Such as the Avery Brand ones) I haven't been able to figure out how I would format the page or make the printout align on top of the labels.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!!

Jimmy

 

[GunJack]

This really isn't a CF question so much as a dhtml question. I think you'll want to use <div> tags and set exact locations on the page to make everything line up. Try something like this.

<div style=&quot;position: absolute; top: 100px; left: 50px;&quot;>
<table>....</table>
</div>

You can use a <p> tag to set page breaks but it only works in IE so far.

<p style=&quot;page-break-before: always&quot;>

Good luck,
GJ

 

[twcman]

a little belated but go to the allaire custom tag section and search on avery. a great label tag will come up that does everythin for you.

 

[dlkraft]

Save yourself much coding pain and integrate Seagate Crystal Reports with the Seagate Page Server.

I just serve up with CF whatever the client wants into a temp table, then call the Crystal Report with the output set to the exact type of labels needed. The report uses the temp table as its data source.

The user gets a virtual Crystal interface in Java or ActiveX and simply presses the print button in the interface. Boom! Web labels!