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Hi,

Sometimes you want to print mailing labels but you don't actually want to print conventional 'mailing label' data. Instead, maybe you want to print some name badges or something like that. If I go to the address settings screen, I can set whatever tokens I want in the mailing label format field. If I have the mailing label format simply contain '{contact.display_name}', then mailing labels will be correctly produced, with each contact's display name listed. However, if I change the label format to '{contact.addressee}', then I get a completely blank PDF. It seems that certain tokens have to be present in the label format field in order for the contact's data to be correctly pulled in, if those tokens are not present, then no tokens work because there is no data for any contacts. I have tested this with a production 4.3.0 install, as well as on the demo 4.3 site at http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org. Both have this problem.

I have also defined some custom tokens in a module, and if I set the mailing label format to contain just one of my custom tokens, I get the same results, a blank PDF file.

Unless I'm missing something, this looks like a bug. I can enter it into the tracker, if need be.

Best wishes,
-Ian