Easy labels on Ubuntu Linux with Glabels

Yesterday I had a more challenging tasks for Glabels. The labels we had from the store weren't known to Glabels, and had rather odd dimensions. The sheet itself was only half the width of a standard page. Further, their was a gap in the middle each page with no labels on it!

Glabels was ready for this. It lead me through a graphical wizard, asking me various dimensions of the custom label sheet I had. As I entered the numbers, it updated a graphical sketch representing the page. This allowed me to instantly reality-check my work.

A few minutes later, the test print was complete. The output had lined up perfectly on the sheet! Glabels saved the custom template I'd just created so it would be easy to select it as an option in the future.

My next challenge was to merge the design with a data set, so each label would be different. Since I can't remember the last time I did a mail-merge, I was afraid this would be hard.

Glabels had clear buttons and icons that made it simple to insert merge fields into the design and select a data file to use. It's hard to imagine how it could have been much easier.

As a one-time independent book publisher, I appreciate that Glabel can also create bar codes. At that time, there was no viable software to create the ISBN barcode I needed for the back of the book. I had to have a friend-of-a-friend make one in exchange for a copy of the book! Now Glabels would do that for free.

Glabels is a pleasure to use, and I heartily recommend it for your LInux label making needs.