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glabels: Ready For Prime Time

Posted by timothy on from the small-business dept.

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.)

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  1. "beta" or "ready"? by mi · · Score: 5, Insightful
    It's still in beta status, but it's ready for prime time

    Sorry, you can't have it both ways. Nope.

    --
    In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
  2. Re:Destined to be the most popular native app? by underpar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You've never had a mindlessly boring desk job have you? It may not be cool, but it may be very popular with those assigned the most tedious tasks in the office. That's normally a girl, by the way. Anyway, it is a dull story. It still makes me happy, though.

  3. Very useful to the right people by strider3700 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I see lots of jokes about barcodes software and how ground breaking it is being made here. It's obvious that the people making those jokes don't work in retail software.
    I write Point of sale and inventory management software and good easy handling of barcodes is a huge thing with customers, even if it is relatively boring software wise. Programs like this may seem like nothing but they will go a long way towards linux acceptance in key non server locations.

    RFID may be the new hotness but barcodes still rule the retail world.

  4. You don't get it. by iantri · · Score: 4, Insightful
    For those who are saying "Bah! What good is this? Just use OpenOffice," you don't get it.

    OpenOffice (nor Corel Wordperfect or MS Word) are acceptable substitues for a real label making program -- have many Slashdotters ever bothered to try and print out CD labels or covers/trays to pre-scored stock (like the Avery media available)? Futzing around with templates in Word Processors sucks -- they are designed for linear text. Publishing apps are a little better, but there is nothing like the right tool for the job.

    A program like Avery DesignPro or Surething CD Labeller for Windows makes producing such things very quick and painless.. it is good that this sort of thing is now available under Linux.

    The reason (well, one of them at least), that Linux lacks as a desktop is BECAUSE of the lack of useful tools like this; answers like "You don't really need a (label-making program, greeting card maker, etc.), just use OOo" or "You don't need a WYSIWYG HTML editor, just use vi" completely miss the point.

    BTW, I, for one, could really use a good greeting card program, like Sierra Print Artist. Does any such thing exist?