Creation Envelopes

With Mail Factory, you can print addresses on envelopes and design your own envelopes. The program supports great number of envelopes and postcards - European (ISO), US (Standard), Japanese. Mail Factory also supports most common envelopes with windows, and allows to create custom envelope sizes.

Envelope Types

In Mail Factory, envelopes are divided into European, US (Standard) and Japanese. When choosing the envelope size from the list, it's recommended that you use the "Type" filter to choose the correct envelope type based on the envelopes used in your country.

For your convenience, Mail Factory shows the dimensions of envelopes near to their names.

Some envelopes may have windows. As there is no uniform standard for window size and position, Mail Factory offers just the most common window envelopes. For supported envelopes, tick the Use Window box when choosing the envelope in the Assistant or the Layouts dialog. If you're using envelopes with other window size or position, you can create a custom layout and use it for all such envelopes. For more information about creating custom layouts, see "Editing Custom Layouts".

Creating a New Envelope From Assistant

If you are new to Mail Factory, or want to create your envelope using one of the ready-made designs, start from the Assistant. Follow the 3 easy steps of envelope creation. First, select a envelope layout from the list. Then choose one of the ready-made designs and finally choose the sender's and recipient's addresses which will be printed on the envelope.
Find more details in Assistant.

Your envelope with the selected delivery address, and your address as the return address will appear on the design canvas in the Mail Factory window.

If you're satisfied with the way everything looks, you can print your envelope (see "Printing Labels, Envelopes and Postcards"). Otherwise, you can edit the envelope by customizing and adding address panels, text, graphics, changing fonts, etc.

For more information about editing your envelope, see "Editing Objects".

Creating a New Blank Envelope

To create a new blank envelope, do the following:

1. Choose File/New Envelope or press Cmd+Option+N.
2. A new blank envelope will appear. By default, most recently used envelope will be chosen. You can change the envelope size at any time. To change the envelope, click the Layouts button on the toolbar.
3. In the Layouts dialog, choose one of the predefined envelope sizes from the list. Some envelopes may have a window - you may enable or disable it in the Use Window check box. To modify the window size and position, click the Copy layout button. A window will open where you can modify the dimensions of the envelope and the window and save the layout as a custom one. If you already used this envelope in Mail Factory, click on the Recently Used tab and choose one of the last envelopes you worked with.
4. To set a custom envelope, click the Custom tab at the top of the dialog. If you created custom envelopes before, they will show in the list. To choose an envelope, select it and click OK. To create a new envelope, click the Create New... button. To duplicate or edit an existing envelope, use the Duplicate or Edit... buttons respectively. For more information about custom envelopes, see "Editing Custom Layouts".

Now you can place the address panels, add images, etc. For more information about it, see "Editing Objects".