Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!csrd.uiuc.edu!s41.csrd.uiuc.edu!eijkhout From: eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Third call for help!! Overprinting Forms. Keywords: tex, latex, forms Message-ID: <1990Oct14.224102.20707@csrd.uiuc.edu> Date: 14 Oct 90 22:41:02 GMT References: Sender: news@csrd.uiuc.edu (news) Organization: UIUC Center for Supercomputing Research and Development Lines: 28 jlong@radc.af.mil (Jeff Long) writes: >Can LaTeX be made to properly position text to overprint it on a >preexisting form that I could hand feed into my laser-printer? Sure. Up to your printers accuracy, of course. >Is the picture environment the place to start? No. A form typically consists of a number of columns an items at a regular distance. I suggest that you try something with a table. You can insert horizontal skips to get the place of the columns right, and there is a parameter to stretch the baseline distance. But your posting is far from specific, so answering is pretty hard. For instance: do you have to fill in dates with all digits in preprinted boxes? Are all items one-liners, or is there a need for paragraphs of text at certain places? Really, this is not a problem that can very well be solved in the abstract on the net. For any given form it is merely a tedious amount of tinkering with parameters. But it may pay of: I had macros to fill in the complaint sheet of my computer centre (at my former employer, that is!). Saved hours of time. Per month. Victor.