Re: CD Label Software

From: Ed Skinner (Ed_at_REMOVETHIS.flat5.net)
Date: 01/05/04 

Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 11:25:24 -0700

On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 19:53:42 +0000, Les B. Labbauf wrote:

> On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 09:04:41 -0700, Ed Skinner wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 16:13:59 +0000, Les B. Labbauf wrote:
>>
>>> Is there any software or templates available for the creation of CD
>>> labels. Not the inserts, I have cdlabelgen. But for use with the
>>> AVERY 8692 CD Labels.
>>>
>>> I tried googling, but no luck so far. It seems interesting that there
>>> is a lot of tools available for burning CDs, but not making labels for
>>> them. I hate having to boot into Windows just to make labels.
>>>
>>> Les
>>
>> Yes, get "glabels" -- I use it with the AVERY 8692 labels (and MANY
>> others) and it works great.
>
> Thanks to all who replied. I downloaded and installed glabels, and it
> looks like I might be able to get this to work. Still not quite like as
> user friendly as some of the Windblows packages.

     I am particularly happy with glabels because the save-file format is
XML and, over and above the GUI tools that come with the glabels program,
it is very easy to generate my own save-files (in XML) from database and
other programs and then use the batch version to print them.

     glabels-batch -o chanteuse.ps -s 2 chanteuse.glabels

     The above shell command will read the previously generated (such as
from a database or other program) glabels save-file (chanteuse.glabels)
and generate a two-page postscript output file (chanteuse.ps).
     Similarly, the master template file is also in XML. This makes it
easy when I want to add my own templates.
     See: /usr/local/share/glabels/predefined-labels.template

     And, of course, glabels is "open source".
     And, oh yeah, it's free.