CD Jewel Case Creator

[banjo]

I am looking for some open source software that will

run on my Mandy 9.1 to create and print inserts for

Audio CD's in jewel cases.

 

Google has not turned up anything so far.

 

Anybody have any favorites?

 

Has anybody used The GIMP for this?

 

Templates for OpenOffice?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Banjo

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[xxbeanxx]

cdlabelgen and kover .. you can urpmi both

[banjo]

Thanks for the pointers.

 

I will go check them out.

 

Banjo

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[banjo]

Just a quick followup for anyone who may be watching this topic.

 

I found kover on the Mandy 9.1 distro CD's and installed it.

 

It appears to do what I need. I can even put a picture on the

front cover.

 

I have not tried to print yet since my printer is out of toner

right now, but I will give it a go later.

 

Thanks to all for the help.

 

Linux rocks!

 

Banjo

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[banjo]

I thought that I would add a followup message

to this topic in case anybody is interested in the

results I have had. Is anybody else trying to do this?

 

I installed Kover, and it seemed to do what I wanted,

but when I tried to print the insert, I ran into problems.

As long as it had no images it would print OK, but as

soon as I put an image on the page, the program would

just hang, and the printer flashed its error light and quit.

I need to be able to print images.

 

I tried to make a template in OpenOffice to make the

booklet, and that worked OK except for the images.

Evidently, it is not possible to drop an image into a

drawing in OOo...?? At least I could not figure out a

way to do it. So that didn't work.

 

I finally just made a graphical template using The

GIMP. I set it up with a dot pitch of 144 dpi and a size

of 1368 X 684 so that it would print in the correct

size of 9.5 X 4.75 inches. Since this is The GIMP, I

am able to have my way with the images and text,

so the sky is the limit. I really need that flexibility to

make creative covers. This method has worked out

really well so far.

 

Creating the tray-card is a bit more difficult though,

and adding the text to it using The GIMP would be

tedious.

 

I looked at cdlabelgen, but the output of it seems

a bit restrictive in the formatting department. So I

kept looking.

 

I found another perl script, called "splice" which

I got from here:

 

http://www.scholnick.net/splice/

 

That seems to work OK, and it has a nice output.

It doesn't put any boxes or titles on the traycard,

and it prints nicely on the spines. I have used that

program with good effect.

 

So I am going to make the booklet inserts using my

GIMP template, but I may keep looking at alternatives

for the traycard piece.

 

That is all so far.

 

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

 

Banjo

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