[Bug 290249] New: address label printing on sticky labels

[Simon Oosthoek]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290249

           Summary: address label printing on sticky labels
           Product: kaddressbook
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Ubuntu Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: printing
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: s.oosthoek at xs4all.nl
                CC: tokoe at kde.org


Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.7.3) 
OS:                Linux

In all the time I've used Linux on the desktop (since 1996) I've sometimes
tried to print labels from a linux program and particularly from the
kaddressbook database of addresses, but it's always (on the rare occasions I
need it) so hard to do it becomes an obstacle and the temptation to use a paper
addressbook comes up again. Mostly I have experience with kbarcode to do this,
but it's a horror to use!

Reproducible: Didn't try



Expected Results:  
I would like kaddressbook (because that's where I keep my addresses) to have an
option to print addresses on labels. Apparently this is a feature that is
either hard to implement or no developer has ever stumbled upon the need to get
this done properly ;-)

There are a couple of steps I'd expect:
- selecting which addresses to print
- a way to select which fields to print and approximately where on the label
(order and row in printed form)
- a way to describe the layout of the label paper (nr of rows/columns and
offsets) (I don't believe in kbarcode's method of choosing from a huge set of
predifined label sheets/brands)
- perhaps font settings
- Optionally repeating one address many times or each address once.


I can imagine several ways to implement this, one is to include it into
kaddressbook's print feature.

Another is to create a separate module for kde/qt to print on labels and
kaddressbook to interface with this. This should make it easier to create other
programs to print stuff on labels, but perhaps more work?

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