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Walt Mankowski skribis 2006-08-22 10:57 (-0400): > A quick "apt-cache search label" turned up "glabels" and "kbarcode" as > possibilities. I haven't tried either of them, so I don't know how > hateful they are. These are nice for printing any *single* label. When it comes to more than that, it needs to merge data from an external source. Merging is an undescribably complex task for someone who has lived without computers for most of their life. Besides that, these things require designing your own labels. What we need is simply text. We don't need images or barcodes. Heck, any font will do, and any size as long as it fits (automatic scaling would be nice, but I don't want to be too demanding just yet). glabels can use Evolution's address book. Nice, finally some integration. Unfortunately, Evolution won't be anything less than a complete PIM. You can't tell it to hide the unused portions, so this cannot work. Migrating e-mail to another application again is not an option, we like Thunderbird. Oh, and: "We were unable to open this addressbook. Please check that the path /home/juerd/.evolution/addressbook/local/system exists and that you have permission to access it." Very nice: I have to manually create the data directories? Fuck this. kbarcode looks promising. Database management built-in! It needs some QT database drivers. So let's try SQLite: KCrash: Application 'kbarcode' crashing... Okay. I'll install mysql, then. With all its dependencies, this will take 10 minutes. - TO BE CONTINUED -There's stuff above here
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