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<!ENTITY legal SYSTEM "legal.xml">
- <!ENTITY appversion "2.0">
- <!ENTITY manrevision "2.0">
- <!ENTITY date "December 2003">
+ <!ENTITY appversion "2.2">
+ <!ENTITY manrevision "2.2">
+ <!ENTITY date "December 2007">
<!ENTITY app "<application>gLabels</application>">
<!-- Information about the entities
The legal.xml file contains legal information, there is no need to edit the file.
<title>&app; Manual V&manrevision;</title>
<copyright>
- <year>2003</year>
+ <year>2003-2007</year>
<holder>Jim Evins</holder>
</copyright>
<application>&app;</application>. The application creates a separate
application window for each open file.</para>
- <para>The application records the paths and filenames of the four
- most recent files that you edited and displays the files as menu
+ <para>The application records the paths and filenames of the
+ most recent files that you have edited and displays the files as menu
items on the <menuchoice>
<guimenu>File</guimenu><guisubmenu>Recent Files</guisubmenu>
</menuchoice> menu.</para>
following print options:</para>
<sect3 id="print-dialog-job">
- <title>Job Tabbed Section</title>
+ <title>The Labels Tab of the Print Dialog</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Copies (Simple only)</guilabel></term>
+ <term><guilabel>Print control (Simple)</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>For simple labels or cards (no document merge), the job
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><guilabel>Document Merge Control (Document merge only)</guilabel></term>
+ <term><guilabel>Print control (Merge)</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>For labels or cards using the document merge (also known
</variablelist>
</sect3>
- <sect3 id="print-dialog-printer">
- <title>Printer Tabbed Section</title>
- <variablelist>
- <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Printer</guilabel> </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Use this drop-down list box to select the printer to
- which you want to print the file.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Settings</guilabel> </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Use this drop-down list box to select the printer settings.
- To configure the printer, click
- <guibutton>Configure</guibutton>.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Location</guilabel> </term>
- <listitem>
- <para>Use this drop-down list box to select the print
- destination. To print the file to a printer, choose
- <guilabel>lpr</guilabel>. To print the file to a print file,
- choose <guilabel>File</guilabel>. If you select
- <guilabel>File</guilabel>, type the name of the output file
- in the text box provided. To print a file to a location of
- your choice, choose <guilabel>Custom</guilabel>. Type the
- location you want in the <guilabel>Custom</guilabel> text
- box.</para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
- </variablelist>
- </sect3>
-
-
</sect2>
<!-- ============= To Create New Objects ========= -->
</sect3>
+ <sect3 id="object-editor-shadow">
+ <title>Shadow Tabbed Section (All except image and barcode objects)</title>
+
+ <para>This section contains controls to add a shadow to an object.</para>
+
+ </sect3>
+
+
</sect2>
<!-- ============= Other Manipulations of Objects ========= -->
<para>The first step to performing a document merge is to prepare
a source document that contains your merge data. This data could
be mailing addresses or any other data that you wish to create
- unique labels or cards for. Currently only a simple back-end
- for text files exists -- others are planned. The currently
+ unique labels or cards for. Currently back-ends only exist for
+ text files and the evolution data server -- others are planned. The currently
supported text-file format is very simple: each line is a record;
fields are delimited by commas (CSV), tabs, or colons; and newlines
can be embedded into fields by using the "\n" entity. This file
could be created using any text editor or could be created by
- another program or script.</para>
+ another program or script. A common way of creating CSV files is
+ to export them from a spreadsheet program.</para>
<para>A label must then be configured to "point at" this data file.
To configure the merge properties of a document, choose
<!-- ==== Figure ==== -->
<figure id="merge-ex2-3-fig">
- <title>Printing name tags</title>
+ <title>Printing address labels</title>
<screenshot>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject><imagedata
<!-- ==== Figure ==== -->
<figure id="merge-ex2-4-fig">
- <title>Name tags preview</title>
+ <title>Address labels preview</title>
<screenshot>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject><imagedata
<para>The format for these files is defined in the DTD:
<ulink url="http://glabels.sourceforge.net/doc/glabels-2.0.dtd.txt"
- type="http">glabels-2.0.dtd</ulink>. (This DTD also describes other
+ type="http">glabels-2.2.dtd</ulink>. (This DTD also describes other
XML formats used by glabels.)</para>
<sect2 id="template-assumptions">
</thead>
<tbody>
<row valign="top">
- <entry><para>name</para></entry>
+ <entry><para>brand</para></entry>
<entry>
- <para>Name or part # of stationary product.
- E.g. "Avery 8160"</para>
+ <para>Brand or manufacturer of stationary product.
+ E.g. "Avery"</para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row valign="top">
+ <entry><para>part</para></entry>
+ <entry>
+ <para>Part number or name of stationary product.
+ E.g. "8160"</para>
</entry>
</row>
<row valign="top">
</sect2>
+ <sect2 id="template-markup-rect-node">
+ <title>Markup-rect Node</title>
+
+ <para>A <emphasis>Markup-rect</emphasis> describes a markup rectangle.
+ </para>
+
+ <informaltable frame="topbot">
+ <tgroup cols="2">
+ <colspec colname="col1"/>
+ <colspec colname="col2"/>
+ <thead>
+ <row valign="top">
+ <entry colname="col1" colsep="0" valign="top">
+ <para>Property</para>
+ </entry>
+ <entry colname="col2" valign="top">
+ <para>Description</para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ </thead>
+ <tbody>
+ <row valign="top">
+ <entry><para>x1</para></entry>
+ <entry>
+ <para>x coordinate of upper left corner of rectangle.</para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row valign="top">
+ <entry><para>y1</para></entry>
+ <entry>
+ <para>y coordinate of upper left corner of rectangle.</para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row valign="top">
+ <entry><para>w</para></entry>
+ <entry>
+ <para>Width of rectangle.</para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row valign="top">
+ <entry><para>h</para></entry>
+ <entry>
+ <para>Height of rectangle.</para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row valign="top">
+ <entry><para>r</para></entry>
+ <entry><para>Radius of rounded corners of rectangle.</para></entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+
+ </sect2>
+
<sect2 id="template-layout-node">
<title>Layout Node</title>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row valign="top">
- <entry><para>name</para></entry>
+ <entry><para>brand</para></entry>
+ <entry>
+ <para>The brand or manufacturer of the equivalent product.</para>
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row valign="top">
+ <entry><para>part</para></entry>
<entry>
- <para>The name or part # of a product with the same size and
- layout characteristics.</para>
+ <para>The part number or name of the equivalent product.</para>
</entry>
</row>
</tbody>