Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Date: 2003-05-12 20:00:17 PST

I'm trying to create mailing labels using envlab, but the top margin keeps getting cut out. Here's an example:

\documentclass[letterpaper]{letter}
\usepackage[avery5160label,noprintbarcodes,nocapaddress]{envlab}
\makelabels
\begin{document}
\startlabels
\mlabel{}{John Doe\\100 Main St.\\Springfield, IL 12345}
\end{document}

When I view it as a .dvi, it looks fine. But when I convert it to a pdf file with dvipdf, the top margin disappears, and everything shifts up, with disasterous results.

Alternately, if no one can figure out that problem, maybe you can help me with labels.sty, which has likewise been giving me grief. Since it doesn't seem as though it supports Avery 5160 out of the box, I had to use the [newdimens] option, but it too crops out the top margin. For reference, here's the measurements I came up with for a sheet of 5160 labels:

\LabelCols=3
\LabelRows=10
\LeftPageMargin=5mm
\RightPageMargin=5mm
\TopPageMargin=12mm
\BottomPageMargin=13mm
\InterLabelColumn=3mm
\InterLabelRow=0mm
\LeftLabelBorder=5mm
\RightLabelBorder=5mm
\TopLabelBorder=5mm
\BottomLabelBorder=5mm

Any help or advice would be appreciated.

Peter Clark