QLabels: Qt4-based Label editor for pup4.

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muggins · #1 Post by **muggins** » Sat 02 Aug 2008, 23:46

http://qlabels.p34.net/

qLabels is a labels and business cards creating and printing software written in Qt4. It works both under Microsoft Windows and linux operating systems. qLabels able to print labels on many printers.

N.B.Requires Qt4 libraries installed->qt4-4.3.2.pet.

Run via Menu->Graphic->QLabels.

edoc · #2 Post by **edoc** » Sun 03 Aug 2008, 20:19

Is Qlabels similiar to Glabels just using different dependencies or are they radically different?

I am looking at CSV import and export from crqlog. The crqlog folks are looking at Glabels and I wondered if their instructions would be likely to work closely to Qlabels as well.

edoc · #3 Post by **edoc** » Sun 03 Aug 2008, 22:50

qlabels will not load from the menu and when called from rxtv I am getting a libqtxml.so.4 error - this is under Puppy 4.0 same as 3.01

muggins · #4 Post by **muggins** » Sun 03 Aug 2008, 23:53

edoc,

check the first post again, as I've bolded a comment, and even added the link for the qt4 .pet for you.

edoc · #5 Post by **edoc** » Mon 04 Aug 2008, 00:20

muggins wrote:edoc,

check the first post again, as I've bolded a comment, and even added the link for the qt4 .pet for you.

Grrr, helps to have ones eyes open when doing this stuff!

I did discover that if I just clicked the qt4 PET it loaded my screen with junk and I had to stop the download, right click, and "save link as".

Why do some PETs do that and others don't?

Anyhow, it works great, thanks!

Now to see if I can find some interesting templates to import and modify.

edoc · #6 Post by **edoc** » Mon 04 Aug 2008, 02:08

I searched for business card, postcard, and other templates and found none - it appears that development of qlabels stalled in 2007.

glabels appears to be in active development:

http://glabels.sourceforge.net/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/glabels/? ... _id=146844

I did not, however, find a reference to a repository anywhere for templates other than mailing label templates posted to the freshmeat and sourceforge sites.

muggins · #7 Post by **muggins** » Mon 04 Aug 2008, 03:31

Hello Edoc,

I actually haven't used the app myself! I just uploaded it as I
saw your query. The problem with glabels is that it needs gnome
libraries to compile.

Regarding templates, I'm not at my computer at moment, but aren't
there any under /usr/share/qlabels directory? Also, I wonder if it would
be able to use templates from glabels?

edoc · #8 Post by **edoc** » Mon 04 Aug 2008, 12:56

I really appreciate you posting it as a PET!

I looked and all of the templates I see are for mailing labels and CD's, nothing for postcards.

I will try to figure out how to create 4 postcards per sheet of paper and to fix on them an image (or images) and text then flip the page and add some additional text and perhaps a second image but I am not much of an artist (digital or otherwise) so it sure would be good to find something already done that I may modify!

I looked in the files and all I see are mailing labels and CD labels.

muggins · #9 Post by **muggins** » Tue 05 Aug 2008, 00:58

Yes,

as you say, it looks like the templates are for CDs & business cards. So do you have any of the Kde .sfs files? If you did, then you could try Sage's suggestion of kreetingkard.

Or you might be able to create your own:

http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/ ... tcard.html
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/col ... cards_gimp

edoc · #10 Post by **edoc** » Tue 05 Aug 2008, 02:32

I am confused ... not unusual ...

I am uncertain how kreetingkard helps. I need a double-sided postcard, his look like fold-over cards. Also, I need to be able to interface with cqrlog and so far they have only tested interfacing with glabels.

I will have a look at the other links to see if something may be created there and imported to glabels and/or qlabels.

I am uncertain how much of gnome would have to be added to 4.00 for glabels to work correctly. Any idea, please?

muggins · #11 Post by **muggins** » Tue 05 Aug 2008, 03:03

Edoc,

from the glabels website:

System Requirements

gLabels is designed to run on GNOME 2.16+, but more specifically it requires the following libraries or newer.

* GTK+-2.10.x
* LIBGNOME[UI]-2.16.x
* LIBXML-2.6.x
* LIBGLADE-2.6.x

So, AFAIK, your options are:

1) Trying to somehow get qlabels to meet your specs
2) Download a kde .sfs & trying kreetingkards
3) Download a gnome .sfs & try glabels
4) Find a freeware windows program, and seeing whether it would work via wine
5) Either download teenpup, and use the glabels that comes with that, or look for a pupversion that has gnome libraries...muppy?
6) Try creating your own postcards using gimp/ooffice as mentioned in the last two links.

edoc · #12 Post by **edoc** » Tue 05 Aug 2008, 20:42

muggins wrote:edoc, from the glabels website:

System Requirements

gLabels is designed to run on GNOME 2.16+, but more specifically it requires the following libraries or newer.

* GTK+-2.10.x
* LIBGNOME[UI]-2.16.x
* LIBXML-2.6.x
* LIBGLADE-2.6.x

Are these huge files or might they create a conflict with existing 4.0 or 4.1 files, please?

Might there be dependencies for these dependencies? (Yes, I have wrestled with Debian and several other distros in the past and been lost in the dependency maze.)

muggins · #13 Post by **muggins** » Wed 06 Aug 2008, 01:04

See this post here, and in particular Mu's response.

Gnome is a dependency-hell

The simplest way to try glabels, would be to download Wow's gnome .sfs, from this thread (85Mbytes), follow his steps, then download a slackware compiled glabels from glabels-2.2.2-i686-1as.tgz, and extract this archive & copy everything to it's proper location.

But, since I'm only on miserable dialup, and not particularly interested in gnome anyway, I can't be your tester.

What about investigating some of the other options I mentioned? Do you have a functional wine? If you did, I'm sure a quick google would find some freeware postcard programs for you to test.

edoc · #14 Post by **edoc** » Wed 06 Aug 2008, 02:32

Wow, just read WOW's thread - sound like a BIG undertaking.

I am not where I am willing to trash my 4.0 install to get Gnome running but it sounds as though someone has succeeded without doing that.

Perhaps WOW can post a PET to add Gnome for Puppy folks who already have working 4.0 installs.

Right now it is way to big of a project merely to allow the use of glabels.

The advantage of glabels with cqrlog is that cqrlog will output a bunch of data which is then imported into glabels and printed to a variety of fields - saves a lot of time!

Thanks for your assistance - guess I will try some of the other options you suggested and just manually record the data on the cards.

jockjunior · #15 Post by **jockjunior** » Thu 18 Mar 2010, 17:09

Thanks Muggins,
just what I needed to replace glabels under ubuntu. Now the missus can have her jam labels printed again

Jock

Dromeno · #16 Post by **Dromeno** » Fri 15 Oct 2010, 11:25

Qlabels looks as a good alternative to gLabels but it has a flaw: the pixel size of the fonts is way too big when the labels are sent to the printer (real printer or PDF does not matter). The labels look crappy.

I have emailed the creator of the program, he says he is aware of the probem but unable to fix it.

It is a pity since qLabels works in both Windows and Puppy. gLabels is strictly Ubuntu.

So - I do know that this may be the wrong forum to ask this but is there anybody here who knows someone who can fix qLabels (or make gLabels usable under Puppy)?

A program like this is just too good to do without, it is so much easier to use for all kinds of labels and cards compared to OpenOffice/Scribus etc...

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QLabels: Qt4-based Label editor for pup4.

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QLabels is almost unusable