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December 06, 2002

Printing labels from Address Book

Incarna: Software & Services for Mac OS X

iDress offers to print labels from Address Book in all sorts of pre-formatted outputs (Avery, Dymo, envelopes, etc.)

We'll have to give this one a try ..

iDress

02:12 PM in FYI | Permalink

Comments

Picked this up on Apple Discussions:

http://discussions.info.apple.com/WebX?14@@.3bba7a2a/1

Original Message

(Posted Sep 23, 02 11:34 pm)

The inability of AppleWorks to do a mail merge with the Address Book in X 10.2 is a major downfall. Until Apple comes up with a fix in an updated AppleWorks, I'm using AppleScript.

I've created a simple script to get names and addresses from a group in Address Book and copy them to an AppleWorks database. From this database you can use the usual mail merge funtion.

It's a bit of a kluge solution but it works and still allows you to use Address Book as your contacts database.

You can download the example script from my idisk:

Finder->Go->Connect to Server: http://idisk.mac.com/haroldshields/Public

The example uses a Xmas Card Recipients group. You can change the name of the group in the script to suit your purposes.

Cheers!

Harold Shields

Posted by: davo39 at December 6, 2002 02:16 PM

I tried to download your script but the site is pass protected.

Posted by: Jerry Watson at December 9, 2003 06:19 PM