on Tue, 11 Feb 2003 06:37:53PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 04:10:48PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> | i'm starting to send out resumes and cover letters &c., and want to
> | print pretty envelopes in TeX. should i not bother, and just do it on
> | a public printer running windoze on campus? or is there a package i
> | can easily use to print my envelopes to match my letters?
>
> I'm certain it can be done, but I don't know how easily. Thus far I
> have used xfig to position the address on the envelope. (I print on
> "letter" paper, but just put an envelope in the printer instead)
> With fig files or the generated PS, you can update the address with
> a text editor. I'll have to check out the envlab package, though.
yeah, do it -- it's beautiful. like all good tex things, it takes a
small amount of tweaking, but i just spend 20 minutes with it and now
have a template i'll use for every future envelope.
speaking of configuring -- where should the .sty file go? i tried
just putting the whole envlab directory in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/
-- and i made all the permissions world-readable and all that -- but
the latex compiler doesn't like it unless i put the .sty file in the
current directory.
> However, the real reason I am posting is to suggest that you can use
> the public printer anyways. Use your unix tools at home to generate
> a PDF document for the envelope. Then take the pdf to the windoze
> machine and send it to the printer.
turns out, the CS lab at school has two laser printers hooked up to
all their lovely UNIX machines -- no need to export farther than ps :)
thanks for all the advice! my envelopes look beautiful. now i just
need a job ... :)
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