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glabels: Ready For Prime Time
Joe Barr writes "NewsForge is running a review of glabels. It's still in beta status, but it's ready for prime time now. It knows hundreds of predefined label formats and allows you to design your own templates for custom work. Barcodes, images, just about anything but MP3 tracks can be printed on them. glabels is destined to become one of the most popular native apps for Linux." If you need harder-core barcode support, the excellent kbarcode would probably make a good complement. (NewsForge and Slashdot are both part of OSDN.)
..back in The Day we'd just "cat >
Trolling is a art,
glabels is destined to become one of the most popular native apps for Linux
Oh yes, because I can't make it through the day without printing labels.
Either this is a statement about the status of Linux apps, or a comment on the poster's anal retentivness.
This is newsworthy?
That's what Bart's aunt Selma got him for his birthday. It caused nothing but trouble.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Now I can just print out my own!
+1, Insightful!
-2, Cut and Paste Troll
+3, Agrees with My Post
-10, Thinks Bush is doing Great Things
+1.3, Made an original Joke about Soviet Russia
-4, Rants about the RIAA but still buys CDs
+42, Post by me, explaining the Meaning of Life.
As a geek girl and former clerk I can say that it's really awesome to have software that gives me time to do things other than work. Labels are the most obnoxious thing to make, too. To quote Homer (guess which one): I hate them SO MUCH!
This just in:
Label making fever sweeps the nation
If that's true, I think I see the problem with Linux on the Desktop.
It's a friggin label maker. Jesus. Why is this on NewsForge, much less the front page of Slashdot. Wasn't there a dupe you could have posted instead?
I was so looking forward to dusting off the old CueCat and listening to some tracks with it.
It's still in beta status, but it's ready for prime time
Sorry, you can't have it both ways. Nope.
Think 'Windows'.
I sense great hostility in the crowd...
Quick! Someone post some SCO news.
"Kittens give Morbo gas!"
I don't see how that applies, Windows is neither in beta status nor ready for prime time. ;-)
just about anything but MP3 tracks can be printed on them
So it prints OGG & AVI files then?
Do I use glabels? Yes. Do I like glabels? Do I mention glabels as a Premier Application when I talk about Linux? No.
Yeah, the author really thought that the label making industry is going to take over the world. Must I spell it out? H.U.M.O.R. Sheesh, do you want it more explicit? Next time we'll underline the humorous parts for you. Isn't there a "pun-intended" tag somewhere.
:)
Ok, I'll stop before half of slashdot is my enemy
Tagline seen on the cover of next month's "Linux Today":
Labelling: It's the new 'blog'!
just about anything but MP3 tracks can be printed on them
:-)
Just as well. I wouldn't use it if it supported MP3 and not Ogg Vorbis...
All interpreted languages are abstractions over Lisp
Printing was done at 72dpi. Hello, my printer is 1200 dpi, can you please take advantage of it?
You're getting dpi and dpi confused.
Your 1200dpi printer can only print black (or CMY) dots on a (usually) white background. You see, it needs to use all those 1200 dots per inch to render halftones, so that if you stand back far enough an area will look kind of like the approximated colour and not just a collection of dots.
These labels are formatted at 72 dpi. That's 72 full-colour 24-bit fully-toned dots per inch, not a collection of dots that differ only in size.
There is a formula somewhere that converts perceived dpi to perceived dpi, but I can't recall it...
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
I use linux on a 486 i dug out of the dumpster at food lion! I can't afford a printer you insensitve clod!