PDF one time labels
- Melanie Shaw
Printing labels from Adobe PDF documents
Melanie Shaw
3/25/2019-loaded to Confluence 3/18/2024
In MS Word, change text size to 75 (or 60 for longer call numbers); change to regular font to BOLD.
Click on the line spacing options dropdown and select Remove space after paragraph. Then select 1.0 (the smallest) space between lines Type in the correct heading for the item’s location, for example:
MERRILL
GOV DOCS
Insert a line (change font size to 20 or so) between header & call number, then change back to 75 (or 60)
Paste
in the
call number
Tinker with the call number and font size until all parts of the number are on their correct line, making sure the call number fits only on one standard sized page (set to profile view).
Save (as a Word document), then Save as Adobe PDF.
Open the PDF, click on print icon – and make sure * fit to page is selected before printing; when asked, choose one of the small zebra printers (such as CatZD420 Label Printer); and print. If more than one label is needed, you can make a multipage PDF for all of them. Just make sure each label fits on a single standard page. Sample of a single label for the (rarely-added-to) vinyl collection:
