This small piece of code will create an envelope from commandline…

#!/bin/zsh

MYADDRESS = “Mr X // Street 1 // ZIP”

usage() {    echo “$0 - print envelopes using LaTeX”    echo “   address:   Mr. A // Street 123 // ZIP City, State // Country”    echo “   -f <a4,c4,c5,c6,dl> default: $fomat”    echo “         a4: a4              ”    echo “         c4: a4              ”    echo “         c5: a4 folded in 1/2”    echo “         c6: a4 folded in 1/4”    echo “         dl: a4 folded in 1/3”    exit 0 }

while getopts “f:h” opt; do    case $opt in       f) format=$OPTARG; ;;       h) usage; ;;    esac done shift $(($OPTIND -1))

if [[ $format == c6 ]]; then    lx=114mm    ly=162mm elif [[ $format == c5 ]]; then    lx=162mm    ly=229mm elif [[ $format == a4 ]]; then    lx=210mm    ly=397mm elif [[ $format == c4 ]]; then    lx=229mm    ly=324mm elif [[ $format == dl ]]; then    lx=100mm    ly=210mm else    exit 1 fi

ADDRESS=${@//\/\//\newline} MYADDRESS=${MYADDRESS//\/\//\/}

[[ -z $ADDRESS ]] && usage

TMP=$(mktemp -d /tmp/envelope-XXXXXX) cd $TMP

cat « eof > envelope.tex \documentclass{article} \usepackage[margin=0.2cm,top=0.7cm,papersize={$lx,$ly},landscape,twoside=false]{geometry} \usepackage{oldgerm} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

\setlength\parskip{0pt} \pagestyle{empty}

\def\myaddress{$MYADDRESS} \def\address{$ADDRESS}

\begin{document}

\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}

{\fontencoding{U}\fontfamily{yswab}\fontseries{m}\fontshape{n}\selectfont

\myaddress 

}

\end{minipage} 

\Large

\vspace{$((${lx/mm/}-60))mm}

\setlength\parindent{$((${ly/mm/}/2))mm}

\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}

\address

\end{minipage}

\end{document}

eof

pdflatex envelope.tex

lpr -o Duplex=None -o Manualfeed=On -o InputSlot=Envelope -o PageSize=Custom.${lx/mm/}x${ly} -o PageRegion=Custom.${lx/mm/}x${ly} -Penvelope envelope.pdf

rm -rf $TMP