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gLabels: Ready for prime time (NewsForge)

NewsForge reviews gLabels v1.93.3. "gLabels is a feature-packed label-printing application that's easy to use. It comes with an online manual that is current as of version 1.93.2. The manual is well laid out and seems to be nearly complete. For a beta (or developer version, if you prefer), gLabels is in great shape. I'm recommending it for usage today to friends and strangers alike. There are bugs to be squashed, I'm sure, but only a few, and I'm looking forward to the 2.0 release in the near future. Kudos to Jim Evins and the rest of the development crew for a job well done."
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gLabels: Ready for prime time (NewsForge)

Posted Jun 28, 2004 21:49 UTC (Mon) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

Hmm, I guess my custom PostScript program for printing my return address
labels is nearly obsolete now.

gLabels: Ready for prime time (NewsForge)

Posted Jun 28, 2004 22:23 UTC (Mon) by s_cargo (guest, #10473) [Link]

Hmm, I guess my custom PostScript program for printing my return address labels is nearly obsolete now.
I have one of those, too! Take solace in knowing that ours are surely more compact postscript. :)

gLabels: Ready for prime time (NewsForge)

Posted Jun 29, 2004 8:34 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Likewise my pile of shell script and TeX for printing CD labels.

(Does anyone not. have one of these? :) )

gLabels: Ready for prime time (NewsForge)

Posted Jun 29, 2004 9:12 UTC (Tue) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]

There are not. It is GUI tools that are obsolete.

gLabels: Ready for prime time (NewsForge)

Posted Jun 29, 2004 16:46 UTC (Tue) by malex (subscriber, #15692) [Link]

A chain of a python script to prepare an input file, then LabelNation (perl script from http://www.red-bean.com/labelnation/) produced postscript file piped to ps2pdf still works better for pinting of thousands of custom size labels for my lab's work, but gLabels surely has come a long way since the last time I evaluated it. Kudos to the developers and contributors!

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