Print customized envelopes with Address Book

#1 Macworld

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 05:00 AM

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#2 monte

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 05:38 AM

Nicely done. Thanks, Chris.

#3 andrewrodney

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 05:39 AM

Great tips, thanks! I still have to wonder however if it isn’t easier to use Ambrosia’s free EasyEnvelopes (http://www.ambrosias.../easyenvelopes/) which gets its data from Address Book and runs as a Widget.

#4 brobdingnagian

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 05:39 AM

Address Books is pedestrian, and it doesn't print barcodes. Ambrosia Software's EasyEnvelopes improves things some, and it is free.

#5 randyg

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 06:33 AM

This was actually the easy part! Now what do you do if "Kerry Patterson" has a spouse? How do you address it to "Kerry & John Patterson"? What if Kerry and John have children? How do you address it to "Kerry, John, Peter & Mary Patterson"? This is the million dollar question. I ran into this at christmas this year and had to find another program to print my envelopes. I know there are supposed to be some workarounds for this, but all the ones I've seen so far do not work. Before you post a helpful reply to this, make sure to try it for yourself first.

#6 Mississauga

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 08:43 AM

randyg, on 29 March 2010 - 06:33 AM, said:

If you spend a little time populating the "First Name" field with your required names, you'll sort this out. I created a Christmas Card group and edited the fields to suit.

#7 Charles_Martel

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Posted 29 March 2010 - 02:12 PM

I wish Address Book printed postal bar coded like Word does, then I could use Pages exclusively and drop Word.

#8 RayJ

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Posted 05 April 2010 - 05:19 AM

I want to print his but each time my browser crashes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What to do??

#9 digitaflack

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Posted 05 April 2010 - 06:52 AM

After selecting the envelope size, changing the font, the font size, adding an icon, resizing it, selecting fields you want on the envelope, work address or home, print country...

Then print a test envelope.

Looks good? Then do it all again because the AB app does not let you save your settings for the next envelope!

What were they thinking?

AB is the worst app on the Mac that you can't do without... everything syncs with it, but except for minor tweaks its as brain dead as it was in 2002.

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#10 dsimmonsusc

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Posted 05 April 2010 - 09:50 AM

Try, in the print dialog box, choose save as pdf (button next to preview on my Mac). Save it to your desktop or where ever, and then print the pdf file. This may give a slightly different result, depending on your web browser.
Another option, take screenshots [shift + apple/command + 4, then select the area you want] of the relevant parts of the webpage you want to save. It/they will appear as image files on your desktop, which you can later print... Good luck!

RayJ, on 05 April 2010 - 05:19 AM, said:

I want to print his but each time my browser crashes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What to do??

#11 DomComm

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Posted 05 April 2010 - 06:46 PM

I find Address Book to be VERY limiting. Back in the early '90s there as a $15 shareware app, also called Address Book, that was far superior in capabilities. It would not only address envelopes, but would make address labels to any of the standard Avery sizes, and make phone books from your addresses in various styles. You could use any font, and it would automatically condense the type to fit on labels if the names were too long to fit. It had far more functionality than apple's Address Book.