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Open Source Workflows and Printing Barcodes with Zebra Technologies

  • Labelsontime.com; By Terry Hancock (Posted by rossendryv on Oct 12, 2018 11:08 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Lots more people are having to print barcode labels for themselves these days while running an ecommerce businesses Sometimes, the right solution is to let someone else handle it for you—but not always, and even if you do, there’s good chance you will still have to fill some orders yourself.

Adding Graphics To LibreOffice when making labels

  • blog.worldlabel.com; By Bruce Byfield (Posted by rossendryv on Oct 9, 2018 11:13 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: ; Groups: OpenOffice.org
When people think of labels, the first thing that comes to mind is lines of text like addresses or tab markers. But these are just the simplest uses for labels. Photos, greeting cards, business cards, inserts for CD jewel cases

How To Prepare Labels With LibreOffice.org (Video)

This tutorial covers using templates, how to import images and use and insert text, in-depth instructions on using spreadsheets and mailmerge and more.

Creating and Using Barcodes with Free Software & Inkscape

Barcodes provide a simple, reliable, machine-readable way to read numbers or addresses into your computer (or smartphone or tablet) so that information can be looked up online or in a database. There are a number of different standards for barcodes, and the most-commonly used ones are quite easy to use and create with simple free software applications,

Seven Reasons for Choosing LibreOffice over Microsoft Office

  • Blog.Worldlabel.com; By Bruce Byfield (Posted by rossendryv on Aug 29, 2012 3:29 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: ; Groups: Community
OK, LibreOffice is free for the download, and you can install it on as many different machines as you choose. But a free price and a free license aren’t much good if the software doesn’t have the features you want. Happily, that’s usually not a concern with LibreOffice or its predecessor, OpenOffice.

Open Source Desktop Publishing 2011

  • blog.worldlabel.com; By Nathan Willis (Posted by rossendryv on Sep 29, 2011 6:19 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups
The free software world moves rapidly, but every individual project also moves at its own pace and rhythm. Consequently, it is easy to get behind on the news. Here is a look at the state of the art in the open source desktop publishing (DTP) arena for fall 2011.

Winners of the Tux Paint summer 2011 drawing contest

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2011 Tux Paint Summer Contest. We thank all the participants for thier entries. We must admit, judging was extremely difficult so we decided to add an additional 10 winners who will each get a Tux Paint t-shirt.

Tux Paint Kids Summer Drawing Contest

  • blog.worldlabel.com; By WLmanager (Posted by rossendryv on Jun 30, 2011 2:44 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Grab Tux Paint, make a cool drawing, win one of 3 OLPC laptops, one of 10 Sugar-on-a-stick and other awesome prizes! The 2011 Tux Paint Summer Drawing Contest is sponsored by Worldlabel.com and is open to all children aged 3 to 12 who live anywhere in the World!



Inkscape resources to take you from newbie to power user

  • blog.worldlabel.com; By Nathan Willis (Posted by rossendryv on Mar 15, 2011 11:39 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The vector editor Inkscape is what some might call a best-kept-secret among open source projects — in part, because few people outside the graphic design community have any experience working with vector artwork; also, in part, because it’s so powerful that it can seem intimidating at first blush. Here are a collection of Inkscape resources you may find helpful in learning Inkscape and in expanding your skill set.

Label & Card Printing Resources with Tex and Latex

  • Worldlabel.com; By Nathan Willis (Posted by rossendryv on Dec 8, 2010 11:05 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Although TeX is most often used to create structured documents like research papers, it can be used to generate any document type — including specialty items. For the unfamiliar, here are some resources for using TeX to print envelopes, labels, badges, and cards.

Quality Printing with GIMP

  • blog.worldlabel.com; By Nathan Willis (Posted by rossendryv on Oct 18, 2010 7:05 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
On a free software desktop, printing is rarely a problem, because significant work has gone into making CUPS, Foomatic, and other parts of the printing tool chain work well. There are still a few things the average user can do to enhance the quality of prints from graphics applications like GIMP.

10 Young Open Source Projects to Watch

  • blog.worldlabel.com; By Lisa Hoover (Posted by rossendryv on Oct 14, 2010 10:07 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
New open source projects launch all the time and there’s so many great ones out there it’s hard to find the diamonds in the rough. Here are 10 promising young FOSS projects to keep an eye on as their development grows. Download or use them in the meantime as they develop, they are awesome!

Tuxpaint: hook ‘em on open source graphics while they’re young

Tuxpaint is an open source graphics program that occupies a special niche: it is designed for children. This makes it a rarity in the software community known for every developer scratching his or her own itch. Tuxpaint has just six tools: paintbrush, rubber stamp, line tool, text tool, polygon tool, and eraser.

Photography with Open Source and Linux

  • blog.worldlabel.com; By Nathan Willis (Posted by rossendryv on Sep 1, 2010 6:04 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
All desktop environments support camera import, image management and editing applications. But the desktop defaults are really geared towards casual users. Don’t be fooled by that, though; open source can and does offer the tools to support professional photographers and high-end enthusiasts.

Generating labels and business cards in OpenOffice.org

  • blog.worldlabel.com; By Nathan Willis (Posted by rossendryv on Aug 20, 2010 3:48 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: ; Groups: OpenOffice.org
Despite the fact that open source has specialty label-and-business-card programs, most users are going to continue to create their documents in the word processor they feel most comfortable with like OpenOffice.org Writer. It is a good choice; it provides design wizards that simplify creating print-ready documents for standard label templates, and OpenOffice’s mail merge backend is quite powerful

Sketching and Prototyping with Pencil (FireFox add-on)

User interface prototyping is supposed to be a creative discipline, where the tools don’t get in the way, so you can place your ideas on the screen just like you would draw them freehand on the back of a napkin. Up until recently, however, there was not a high quality open source UI prototyper. Those days are in the past, though, thanks to Pencil.

Labels and Cards with gLabels from beginner to advanced

  • blog.worldlabel.com; By Nathan Willis (Posted by rossendryv on Aug 7, 2010 6:43 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
A two part article: In the world of label creation software for Linux, gLabels is the long-standing market leader. It offers a convenient graphical interface in which you can design labels with the same tools you are used to finding in image editing software, but it also supports business-friendly advanced features like “mail merge” and barcode generation.

Periodic table of the open source graphics and design apps

Are you ever overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of open source software projects produced by the community? Even when looking at just a subset — such as graphics applications. Let’s examine each design field in turn. We’ll start by describing the leading program or programs in each, followed by the smaller or younger projects, and end with the special-purpose tools.

Open Source painting with MyPaint

  • blog.worldlabel.com; By Nathan Willis (Posted by rossendryv on Apr 2, 2010 6:28 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
MyPaint is a lightweight, easy-to-use open source painting application that you might not have heard of before. It’s not a photo editor, it doesn’t bother with paths, geometric shapes, text manipulation, or fancy masking options. Instead, it focuses on one and only one use: painting.

OpenOffice.org: The Need for Style

Styles is one of OpenOffice.org's most powerful yet underused features. A style is a collection of formatting instructions that you set once and then apply as needed throughout a document. This articles provides a hands-on guide to using styles.

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