An image object lets you put on the label a bitmap image like a PNG or JPEG or a vector image in SVG format. GLabels supports text, box, line, ellipse, image, and barcode objects. Among the properties for a text object you can set are the style, which includes the font, size, color, alignment, and spacing the size and position of the object and whether the text should have a shadow effect applied. Here, I have added text to the top of my DVD label and a barcode to the bottom. Once you select your media type you are taken back to the initial window, only now your current label is shown in the left side of the window with the selected object’s properties shown on the right, as in the screenshot below. To use a new media type when you create a new label, set the category to User Defined, and gLabels will show all your custom templates. After the layout page you can apply the wizard and your new template is saved. This final layout screen, shown in the second screenshot below, is the most complex, because you have to move the individual objects (DVD labels in this case) into the precise positions where they should appear on the printed page. For some media you might need two, if for instance you have a left and right page design for special labels. Most of the time you will only need one layout - for example, when printing DVD labels. Finally you are asked how many layouts this media type needs (one or two), then asked to position the individual label objects on the paper. Depending on that selection, you will then be shown a page letting you fine-tune the label, as in the first screenshot below.
The second page asks you for the page size of the label the third page lets you select between rectangular, round, or CD/DVD labels. On the first page it asks you to enter the brand, part number, and a description for the new media type. If gLabels doesn’t know about your media type, you can tell the program about it by selecting File -> Template Designer to invoke a new media type wizard. By far the quickest way to filter is by selecting the brand of paper you have, because this greatly limits the selection shown in most cases. For example, selecting business cards from the Category combo box will cause CD/DVD media not to be shown in the list. The three combo boxes toward the top of the window let you filter the media shown in the list to help you find the media that you have. Selecting File -> New from the menu or clicking on New in the toolbar brings up the media type selection dialog, which lets you choose which paper you are printing onto. If your paper is not already supported, the application provides a template designer to help you set up gLabels once for your desired paper and reuse your new formatting template for future projects. gLabels includes templates for many paper types, so you don’t have to worry about offsets and formatting and can concentrate on the content of the labels.
GLabels is a GNOME application that’s designed to let you quickly print business cards and other labels, including those for CD-ROMs and DVDs. CDDB lets you enter a disc ID from an audio CD and find out the names of the tracks on the disc and other metadata. All of these programs include settings for which device you are using as your CD-ROM device, which Compact Disc Database ( CDDB) server to contact for lookups, and proxy settings. I used the packages for the first two projects and built cdlabelgen from source on a 64-bit Fedora 9 machine.īoth kover and GTKcdlabel support looking up the titles of songs on audio CDs. But there are some fine open source applications available for creating labels for CD-ROM and DVD disks and printing jewel case inserts, including gLabels, kover, and cdlabelgen.įedora 9, Ubuntu Intrepid, and openSUSE 11 all provide packages for gLabels 2.2.3 and kover 3, but cdlabelgen 4.1.0 is left out in the cold by all three distributions. Many discs are lucky to have some terse information quickly scrawled on them after burning. Making labels for DVDs and their cases is an often overlooked task.
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