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From: barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman)
Subject: Re: any luck with envelopes
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 91 20:20:18 GMT

In article <2068@pdxgate.UUCP> marcus@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Marcus Daniels) writes:
>
>so frustrating...
>

Actually, I found it to be pretty simple to make envelopes.
Here's how I do it: I use WriteNow to typset the  envelope:

(0) open WriteNow.

(1) In WN, use the Page menu button, and then use the Page layout submenu.
 choose the Paper Size to be ``other'', Choose Landscape mode, and enter the
desired Width (9, e.g.) and Heigth (5, e.g.) for your envelope.

(2) use the menu item Page, subitem  Insert header/Footer to go into 
   the header and 
   footer and delete all the blank space there. 
    (you don't want substantial header/footers on envelopes)

(3) design your envelope text as desired in WriteNow,
which will display a page the size of your envelope.
(I like to past in a graphic of a tesellated dodecahedron from Mathematica,
using the polyhedra.m mathematica Package :-).

(5) In your NeXT laser, slide the manual feed guides to fit
    your envelope, in put it in place. 

(4) select Print.. from the WN menu; on the print panel, select 
    manual feed for the paper feed, and 400dpi resolution (for
    that special touch :-)

Thats it----works great for me.
Now if it could just dispense stamps...(Hmmm---does anyone
has a good .tiff of a postage stamp? :-)
--
Barry Merriman
UCLA Dept. of Math
UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research
barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)