hard copy posting

blotch · 08-15-2005, 08:16 PM

Hi,

I want to send a monthly mail posting to my group members. This basically means that I need to print out envelopes with their individual addresses on, or individual sticky labels for their envelopes. A few questions, please:

1. What's the best program to use?

2.. What do I type their names and addresses into as a source - a database or a table?

3. Do I use the Linux equivalent of Windows mail merge? If so, what is it?

Any advice on this subject would be welcome.

Thanks,

pnellesen · 08-15-2005, 10:00 PM

Just pure guessing here, but OpenOffice might have most of that kind of functionality (at least as far as printing envelopes/sticky labels). Not sure about getting the addresses into it, though. Might depend on what mail system you use... Again, this is all guesswork, based upon past experience with various other Word processing programs, but it might get you started (and OpenOffice is free!

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blotch · 08-16-2005, 08:05 AM

Hello Pnellesen,

Thanks! I'll give Open Office a try.

Cheers,

PeterRJG · 08-16-2005, 08:31 AM

Abiword can do mail-merging and label printing too, without anywhere near the overhead OO has.
Yes, it has nowhere near the features, but then again, it has nowhere near the bloat either.

blotch · 08-17-2005, 04:38 AM

Hi Johnycab,

I've found that I have Abiword buried in the programs in Libranet. I'll get on to it. Many thanks for your input.

Best wishes,