On Tue, 14 Jun 2022 11:15:47 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> declaimed the following:
>On Tue, 14 Jun 2022 00:41:07 +0200, jak <nos...@please.ty> declaimed the >following: > <SNIP> >> >>https://www.guardiacostiera.gov.it/venezia/Documents/Bollettino%20MOD.%20TD123.pdf > <SNIP> > In either case -- they should be manageable spending some time laying >out the "form" in any decent word processor, and developing the suitable >mail-merge definitions and database. Or even a decent report-writer with a >relational database. Note: if it is the "individual/one-letter-per-box" areas that are making it seem so difficult for mail-merge... Don't do it that way! Use one mail-merge field for the entire data item, use a monospace (fixed width) font (Courier, Lucida Console, etc.), and adjust the character spacing using the word-processor formatting operation (in Word this is under the Font pop-up dialog, "advanced" tab). Set it to "expanded" spacing and adjust the amount of expansion until your chosen font is spaced properly to appear as one character per form box. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-the-spaces-between-text-e9b96011-1c42-45c0-ad8f-e8a6e4a33462 (On LibreOffice Writer, it is under Format/Character..., Position tab on the dialog. At least, it is on the version I have on Debian in VirtualBox.) -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfr...@ix.netcom.com http://wlfraed.microdiversity.freeddns.org/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list