banjo Posted December 10, 2004 Report Share Posted December 10, 2004 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 (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxbeanxx Posted December 10, 2004 Report Share Posted December 10, 2004 cdlabelgen and kover .. you can urpmi both Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted December 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2004 Thanks for the pointers. I will go check them out. Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted December 11, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 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 (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted December 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2004 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 (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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