Shelf or Mail Labels

sir.wally.lewis · Post by **sir.wally.lewis** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 4:16 am

Hi I am evaluating trichedit for our company. the thing we are most interested in is the mailmerge in combination with label making so that we could use your product in Delphi XE to create labels to be placed on supermarket shelf faces.

I cannot find any examples of your product that gives me the idea, that trichedit can actually do this.

- Can your product create labels and merge data at same time.
- Are there any examples?

Please respond urgently. I have only a short time to evaluate this product before we look elsewhere.

Post by **Sergey Tkachenko** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 7:11 pm

Sorry, I am not sure that do you mean by creating labels. What's the difference between a label and a normal document?

As for mail merging demos, they are here: http://www.trichview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8
There are many different demos, depending on how fields codes are defined, and which kind of field values can be (plain text line, or multiline text, or rich text, or picture, etc.)

sir.wally.lewis · Post by **sir.wally.lewis** » Wed Mar 09, 2011 10:31 pm

A Document is like a letter( usually on 21 cm by 28 cm sheet ), or similar.

A Label is usually recursive sized canvas on a letter usually in 2 columns by 6 or 7 rows. Labels are used for envelopes or supermarket shelfs.

This is a standard definition. Is there an english problem here?

Kind Regards,

Robert.

Post by **Sergey Tkachenko** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 10:12 am

Well, one label can be treated as a small document.
So I can see two questions here:

1) Can TRichView print these labels in 2x6 (2x7) grid?
It is possible, of course, you have two options:
- placing them in a table, each label is in one cell
- using TRVReportHelper component; this component can print a document at the specified rectangular area on the paper, so you can create as complex layout as you need.

2) Can a label be created in TRichViewEdit?
Yes, if it does not contain floating objects (images or text boxes), positioned at the specified coordinates. TRichViewEdit supports only objects aligned within a text flow, or using tables.
And we do not have a component for printing barcodes, you need to insert a barcode image (or component drawing a barcode) created elsewhere.

sir.wally.lewis · Post by **sir.wally.lewis** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 11:35 pm

Thanks I only realized last night I actually needed something that would print barcodes.

So I was looking at the wrong solutions.

Thanks anyway.