PRINTING ENVELOPES SIDEWAYS

Printing an address on an envelope in an injet printer requires that the address be printed sideways. The following example illustrates the use and setup of the file to print on an Epson Stylus 600. It is important to adjust the spacing to print properly on your inkjet printer.

The sideways printing is accomplished using the style file rotate.sty including in the standard Latex2E distribution. You can use the style file to rotate other text in your LateX documents.

Obtaining the files
This provides and example of printing sideways on an envelope using the file env.tex and env_nameonly.tex in LaTeX.

Processing the files
To process the file env.tex, execute

  latex env

then process for printing using

  dvips env

To preview the file use

  gv env.ps

Previewing the files
The file will not display properly using the xdvi command, however using ghostview, or gv, the sideways printing is correctly displayed.

To preview the file env.tex using postscript: env.ps select the file with your browser.

To preview the file env_nameonley.tex using postscript: env_nameonly.ps select the file with your browser.

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