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Actually, I think that the problem does not reside in Americans sticking to
their format....If it was really such a concern, we would switch to their
format anyway...The problem only seems to lie in the fact that there isn't
any demand for what you're asking or some enterprising shareware producer
would have made it.  There are plenty of talented developers in australia
and I haven't seen one such program you describe...You could always
commission a developer to make one for you for AU$500-$700 and you get the
source code.  Then you could try and distribute it and get your money
back....I don't think you'd have many takers to be perfectly honest...

As for buying anywhere else on the globe, that is always an option but I
look around the globe and I don't see anyone else making an a4 based
labelling utility...

Don't blame the yanks....blame all those people who are making the software
around the rest of the globe who are trying to sell to the yanks...

Good Luck,
Dennis

Stuart Willis wrote in message <35AB5179.151676ED@uq.net.au>...
>Judith Bassin wrote:
>
>> How about MacLabel from Avery? They have one for the Mac (Version 1.64).
>> I've been using it happily for years now.
>
>Judith,
>
>I have been watching this posted question with considerable interest but
have
>not as yet seen the answers which would satisfy "my" particular
requirements.
>Let me briefly summarise the issue.
>
>Those who require a mass laser-labelling facility can find it integrated
>within ClarisWorks or FileMaker.  But those built-in label formats serve
only
>those markets which use the US Letter page.   The global standard is the
>metricated A4 page - so if you are not in the good ol' US of A,  you are
>burdened with workarounds whereby to compensate for margins and
drop-register
>corruptions. The isolation of USA in clinging to the imperial measurement
>system, has produced nothing but problems in myriad commercial and
industrial
>export markets.  The customer has to decide whether he shall be the loser
or
>whether he shall beat the American tunnel vision by buying from elsewhere
>(which in terms of imperial v metrication, means from anywhere else on the
globe!)
>
>For instance.  In many business presentations it is absolutely necessary to
>deliver unfolded documents.  And yet the infeed width dimensions of all
>personal laser printers such as Apple, Hewlett Packark - et al, are just
1.5mm
>too narrow to accommodate a manilla envelope for A4 pages. So in this
>high-tech' age our options are (i) the quill pen or ballpoint, (ii) an
>expensive commercial laser-printer, or, (iii) use of a laser label.
>
>For the latter requirement one should not have to open a huge Application.
>We need only a Desk Accessory (Apple Menu item) Laser-labelling Utility
which
>works with the current Mac OS and which supports the global metricated page
formats.
>
>Having followed this ng thread,  I emailed Avery, put these criteria, and
>asked the questions. Their prompt and courteous response can be summarised
as
>"No. No. and No"
>
>To any Shareware wizards and software developers who may be reading this, I
>say, "here is market just waiting for your skills and enterprise".
>
>Stuart Willis.
>