[Libreoffice] Fw: [discuss] adding my company's label templates to OO

[Eric Teng]

hi christian,

haha i suppose you have been spammed a couple of times *disclaimer* only 
send you email once.

anyways, i do not fully understand what you mean but i will read the blog to 
explore. thanks and will get back to you.

rgds
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christian Lohmaier" <lohmaier+libreoffice at googlemail.com>
To: "Eric Teng" <eric at felabel.com.sg>
Cc: <libreoffice at lists.freedesktop.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 11:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Libreoffice] Fw: [discuss] adding my company's label templates 
to OO


> Hi Eric, *,
>
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Eric Teng <eric at felabel.com.sg> wrote:
>>>> Ill like to know how to add label templates to libreoffice . we are a
>>>> labels supplier located in singapore.
>
> [snip]
>
> You seem to have a problem with your mailer or with your patience :-)
>
> To add your labels, create appropriate additions to the Labels.xcu
> file. The scheme used for that file is defined in Labels.xcs
>
> Quote: "Contains the measurement data of the label concatenated by a
> colon (;) in the following order: 'C' or 'S';Horizontal
> Distance;Vertical Distance;Width;Height;Left margin;Upper
> margin;Columns;Rows" while 'C' marks a continuous label and 'S' marks
> a sheet."
>
> You can also create an extension with those additions, that way you
> can add the labels also to versions of LO or OOo or Oracle Open Office
> or other variants that don't have the fix in the code.
>
> To do that, you only need to put the added parts of the labels.xcu
> into an extension. Step-by-step instructions on how to build such an
> extension:
> http://blogs.sun.com/kkoll/entry/using_extensions_to_change_openoffice
>
> So once you added the corresponding data for the labels, feel free to
> provide a patch (or even better the extension)
>
> ciao
> Christian