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How To Design Business Cards and Labels With Glabels

This document provides instructions for creating custom business cards and labels using the gLabels desktop program in Linux. gLabels offers predefined templates for business cards and labels that work with common label and business card sheets. It allows designing a business card with an integrated GUI editor. For name labels, gLabels supports mail merge functionality to populate label templates with data from an external text file, allowing the creation of multiple customized labels at once. The document demonstrates how to design a business card and name labels using gLabels on Linux.

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How To Design Business Cards and Labels With Glabels

This document provides instructions for creating custom business cards and labels using the gLabels desktop program in Linux. gLabels offers predefined templates for business cards and labels that work with common label and business card sheets. It allows designing a business card with an integrated GUI editor. For name labels, gLabels supports mail merge functionality to populate label templates with data from an external text file, allowing the creation of multiple customized labels at once. The document demonstrates how to design a business card and name labels using gLabels on Linux.

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How to create custom business cards or labels in Linux

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Dan Nanni 3 Comments A savvy business person may believe that a lasting impression starts with a good looking business card. That doesnt necessarily mean that you need to order expensive business cards from somewhere. There are plenty of image editor software that can be used to create DIY great looking business cards or name labels. In inux! there is a "#$%& desktop program called gLabels which is designed to create labels or business cards. As a hassle free label creator! g abels offers various predefined templates for labels and business cards! and works with peel'off labels and business card sheets of various si(es! which are commonly found at office supply stores. In this tutorial! I describe how to design business cards and labels with gLabels. Install gLabels on Linux Desktop

To install g abels on Debian! )buntu or inux %int*


$ sudo apt-get install glabels

To install g abels on +edora*

$ sudo yum install glabels

#ote that g abels is designed for "#$%& ,.-.! and therefore is not compatible with /ent$0 orRHEL 1 which comes with "#$%& 2. Design a Business Card with gLabels 3ith its built'in ")I editor! designing a business card on g abels is pretty easy. To launch g abels on inux! simply run*
$ glabels-3

You can create a new design by clicking on 4#ew +ile5 icon on the top. Then choose one of several predefined business card templates.

Add images! texts! lines or shapes to customi(e your business card.

/heck the print preview of the design before finali(ing.

Design Name Labels with gLabels 3hen it comes to creating name labels! the most useful feature of g abel is 4mail merge5 feature. This feature allows you to design a generic label template! while filling in user'defined areas 6e.g.! name! address fields7 of each label with a uni8ue text! imported from external data files. g abels supports importing data from text files! &volution Addressbook and v/ards. In the following! I will demonstrate how to create multiple name labels whose data is pulled from an external text file. +irst! you have to prepare a separate text file as shown below. It has four column data 6first9last name! division! company7! and each column is delimited by tab character. There are as many rows of data as name labels needed.

#ow choose one of those ready'made label template on g abels. :ere I choose Avery ;-<; name badge labels. Then! click on 4%erge properties5 under 4$b=ects5 menu.

#ext specify the source of data* data file format 6tab separated value7 and location of data file. $nce the file is loaded successfully! you should see data values contained in the file as follows. /lick on 4$>5.

You can include data values from the file by using control code! formatted as ?@columnAnumberB ?. That is! ?@CB? is from the first column! ?@2B? is from the second column! etc. Delow see how I include four control codes as text ob=ects in the template.

$nce you are done with the design! check the print view of individuali(ed name labels.

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