Bug 290249

Summary:	address label printing on sticky labels
Product:	[Applications] kaddressbook	Reporter:	Simon Oosthoek <kdebugs>
Component:	printing	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	martin.tlustos, montel, tokoe
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
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Description Simon Oosthoek 2011-12-31 12:12:25 UTC

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?

Comment 1 Laurent Montel 2013-10-22 12:17:50 UTC

Do you have screenshot that you want that we implement ?

Comment 2 Simon Oosthoek 2013-10-24 21:01:39 UTC

> --- Comment #1 from Laurent Montel <montel@kde.org> ---
> Do you have screenshot that you want that we implement ?
> 

It's been a while since I reported this, I'd have to dig into it again
and at this time I don't have a very high priority to do so (3 children
to take care of as well ;-)

I think it would be a natural addition to an address database tool to be
able to print them onto labels, as that's one of the most useful places
for adresses to be printed on (apart from mail-merge letters and such).

Cheers

Simon

Comment 3 Laurent Montel 2013-10-25 09:34:30 UTC

Hi,
in 4.12 I implemented grantlee printing support.
So it's not very hard to do it.
After it's hard to implement exact size but we can do it.

for me I can create a table (for printing) with "name" + "address"

Ok will try to add this printing theme.

Regards.

Comment 4 Martin Tlustos 2014-05-07 08:40:16 UTC

*** Bug 311507 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Martin Tlustos 2014-05-07 08:51:12 UTC

By the way, it might be a good idea to make these grantlee themes downloadable like in other kde programs. One could put his new theme on kde-looks.org or kde-apps.org

Comment 6 Martin Tlustos 2014-05-07 11:28:34 UTC

I tried to write a simple template with a table, but as I'm a complete noob when it comes to coding, it doesn't work (of course it wouldn't ;-)

Comment 7 Justin Zobel 2021-03-09 02:34:01 UTC

Thank you for the bug report.

As this report hasn't seen any changes in 5 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists.

If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.