Welcome to Addressix, the fastest way to print envelopes!
This is a time-limited demo, which gives you 30 days to try Addressix. You can purchase a license from inside the application (either from the initial window, or the Purchase… item in the File menu) for only US $13.

Using Addressix
1.	Type an address, return address, and optionally a message for the bottom left.

2.	In the Preferences dialog, choose the button that represents how envelopes feed through your printer. (Depending on your printer, you may also need to specify a margin from one or both edges of the page. For most printers, you should not choose an envelope in the Page Setup dialog.)

3.	Click the Print button.

4.	In the Print dialog’s Paper Feed section, make sure to choose Manual Feed, Multipurpose Tray, or the equivalent that your printer needs in order for you to feed an envelope.

The next time will be much simpler:

5.	Addressix remembers what you’ve used before, so you probably don’t need to enter a return address again. And you can select an address simply by typing the first few letters. (If there are several matches for what you’ve typed, you can choose between them by using Next Match or Previous Match from the Edit menu.)

6.	Click the Print button, which will use the settings from the Print dialog.

Other Features
Addressix can print bar codes for 5 digit or 9 digit ZIP codes. This means that your envelope doesn’t have to be read by a machine (or a person), which can improve speed and accuracy of sorting. And the Postal Service says that it helps them hold down their costs.

To speed data entry, Addressix can paste the Clipboard into the address field when you bring its window to the front. This lets you copy an address from another application and print with even fewer keystrokes.

Addressix normally saves the address, return address, and message when you print. You can also choose to save them by using Remember from the Edit menu. You can disable this in Preferences.

To edit or remove saved addresses, return addresses, or messages, click in the appropriate field, then choose Edit… from the Edit menu.

While the Addresses drawer is showing (see below), you can choose Print Group to print envelopes for all names in the currently listed group.

Printer Settings
Depending on your printer, you may need to enter a left or bottom/top margin in the Preferences dialog. This adjusts for unprintable areas of the paper and exactly where an envelope feeds. We list a few settings (in points) below; you might need to tweak these slightly depending on your printer and the sort of envelopes you use. If you need more than a few points of bottom/top margin, you probably won’t be able to print bars at the bottom of the envelope.

		Feed	Left	Bottom/Top
Epson C80		Left	0	150
LaserWriter Select	Center	0	0
Lexmark Z32	Left	16	-20

The icons are drawn showing an envelope on a printed piece of paper. Many inkjet printers feed the envelope to the right, but pages come out upside-down, so you’ll pick the icon with the envelope on the left. (If you’re having trouble visualizing, print some test envelopes on normal paper.)

Pictures
If you like, you can use a graphic as return address. Since you can’t type a graphic for Addressix to auto-complete, click the “Picture” checkbox. Addressix will display a list of all pictures you’ve used. Click on one, or add a new one by copying it to the clipboard and choosing Paste in this dialog. (Addressix recognizes the Macintosh-standard PICT format.)

Currently, you can’t have both a picture and text — but you can create a PICT that includes both (e.g. with Canvas or an AppleWorks draw document).

Address Book & vCards
You can show the Addresses drawer from the View menu or the toolbar. This shows all addresses which Addressix has remembered, as well as addresses in the Address Book. Use the popup menu to pick a source (including Address Book groups), then click on an address.

You can drag a card from the Address Book to the address or return address fields. Addressix will attempt to use the correct address format for the country (for example, many countries place the postal code before the city). Since you might not fill in the country field for people in your own country, you can specify the default country (either by its two-letter ISO 3166 code “fi” or by its name “Finland”) in the Preferences dialog. This will be used to determine the address format when no country is specified.

If you live in the USA, you probably don’t want to include “USA” as the last line of your addresses. If you live outside the USA, you will probably want to turn off the “Omit Country for US address” checkbox in the Preferences dialog.

You can also drag a vCard file (with the extension “.vcf”) to Addressix.

Importing
Addressix can import a tab-delimited text file into its list of saved addresses. From your database (or other application), export the following fields:
	Name  Addr  Addr2  City  State  ZIP.
Then in Addressix, choose Import… from the File menu. You’ll be given a preview window, where you can inspect the file and make sure it’s OK. If your database exported the field names on the first line, turn on the “Ignore first line in file” checkbox.

Note that Addr2 (the second line of an address) is optional, but must be present in the tab-delimited file. Use two tabs in a row to exclude it.

More Info
Addressix has online help, or you can visit
	<http://a-sharp.com/addressix/faq.html>
on the web. If you have additional questions or comments, contact us at 
	addressix@a-sharp.com

System Requirements
This version of Addressix requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later. If you’re using an earlier version, please download version 1.2.3. (This will also run, though we don’t officially support it, under Mac OS 8.6 or Mac OS 9.x.)

Credits
Icon: Elise Bowditch
E++ library: Electric Fish, Inc.
ABalloon: James W. Walker

©2001-2003 A Sharp, LLC			27 May 2003