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From: Rick_McCormack@mindlink.UUCP (Rick McCormack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: space between fields on printed labels
Message-ID: <4828@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 91 11:55:27 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In an article, David Kaufmann <david@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu> writes about the
following problem:

David: >   I've got an address stack that has each item (title,
David: >   firstname, lastname, street, city, state, zip) in a separate
David: >   field. When I print labels (finally got that to work, thanks
David: >   to Michale Freedburg), there's a lot of empty space between
David: >   fields. I'd like to get a more polished, letter-like look.
David: >   Since the purpose of the separate fields was for sorting and
David: >   selecting, and I can now do that with mark, I'd like to
David: >   either a) combine all the field data into one field (with 3
David: >   lines in the field for when labels are printed) or print
David: >   labels as they are with spaces between eliminated during
David: >   printing.


With all items in separate fields, you may want to look at the font-settings
screen, and change the "leading" downward in size about 2 points. I.E. for
12-point text, normal leading is 13 (?) -- set it to 11.  I have used a
variation of this trick in HC 1.2.5 to accommodate some spacing problems and
have not encountered any bad side effects.

Luck.

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