Using Perl to print on Avery laser labels

Popcorn Dave has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Fellow monks,

I've got some data I've parsed and want to dump this on to mailing labels. I'd like to shoot them off my laser printer on to some Avery precut labels. I tried searching here, but to no avail.

Has anyone done this just using Perl and not using a mail-merge in another program?

Thanks in advance!

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Re: Using Perl to print on Avery laser labels by vroom (His Eminence) on Aug 29, 2002 at 20:22 UTC
Check out PDF::Labels I've been using that with good success in a mapping program at work. You graphically select the properties you want to mail something to, optionally add a buffer and then generate the PDF of labels. One note, in Acrobat Reader you want to uncheck shrink to fit page or anything similar in the print options. This seems to screw up the alignment. When that option is unchecked it seems to work fine on all printers. It comes with a number of predefined formats the first one matches Avery 5160 and 5260 I think. If you look at the source to the module it'll give you descriptions of each format. There are also some modules for doing this with PostScript I believe.	[reply]
Re: Using Perl to print on Avery laser labels by RMGir (Prior) on Aug 29, 2002 at 20:14 UTC
CPAN's search is a great tool. PostScript::MailLabels was the first result of my search, and a lot of the others also look very promising. -- Mike	[reply]
Re: Using Perl to print on Avery laser labels by Popcorn Dave (Abbot) on Aug 29, 2002 at 22:32 UTC
Thanks for the suggestions! I'd rather not deal with the postscript side of it as this may be a one off run, but the PDF module sounds like the ticket. Some people fall from grace. I prefer a running start...	[reply]
Re^2: Using Perl to print on Avery laser labels by djlerman (Beadle) on Nov 17, 2014 at 22:12 UTC
Did you ever figure this out? I need to print Avery labels and include images that span rows. Thank You.	[reply]