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Hello and welcome to a suplmentry tutorial for Maling Addresses, on how to print direcetly to envelopes!
For now, just follow along like with the mailing address toutroial, serching your contacts and choseing which ones you want to print out for mailing.
The diffrence here is we'll be printing pdf letters this time. Don't worry we'll still be printing the contact information for mailing.
as you can see, there are many formats for printing a pdf for diffrent paper sizes, but for now we'll select a evelop template
note that bellow 'unit of mesurement' it tells you the size of the template. this is important for finding which templete to use.
Now I'll begin to make the info that will be printed, starting with the info that will stay the same regardless of different contacts. Ex. The address I would send the mailings from.
A small tip, if you only want to skip one line, press *** Enter.
Now, I will easily make a command for Civivcrm to make the address information for each contact on the enevelope Via the 'Insert Token" feature, near the top right of the screen.
"By inserting the tokens for first name, last name, street adress, ect. ect.
From this point on, I will be adjusting where I want the information, checking how it looks in pdf form. Which I will show how to do shortly. But for now I am pressing 'increase indent' button, to move the information to the right.
Now I'm giving the template a name and saving it, so I don't have to configure it again once I'm done.
at this pount, you can click 'make pdf letters' to have CiviCRM make a pdf with the information you supplied. I'll breifly show it on screen, before going back to edit the layout more.
After this, i'm sastified with the results, save the template and finish my work. And thats it for the tutorial for makiing a template to print address information directly onto envelopes.
Note, please don't copy directly what I did to adjust my information on the video, each envelope size is diffrent and I impore you to cutomize your information the way you want and or need it yourself.