Jaye Evins
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This commit partially addresses issues in #296. Due to the fact that glabels-3 and glabels-4 use different underlying technologies for rendering text, a pixel-perfect import can probably never be fully achieved. This commit focuses on small adjustments to imported text objects to approximate the visual appearance of these objects. - glabels-3 rendered text at 75% of stated font size, compensate by adjusting font size of imported object. - Text boxes behave differently in glabels-4 than in glabels-3. In glabels-4, text boxes must be of a fixed size, so compensate when a variable sized box (when w=0 and/or h=0) is detected and fix the size to the natural text size. - In glabels-3, the fixed margin size (3pt) was not used in the text baseline calculations. Compensate by adjusting vertical position of imported text object.
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This repo is for glabels-qt, NOT the legacy glabels-3 version (which I have not maintained since 2018).
What is gLabels-qt?
gLabels-qt is the development version of the next major version of gLabels (a.k.a. glabels-4).
What's new in gLabels 4?
- A complete rewrite, based on the Qt6 framework.
- A new UI layout based on common activities.
- Cross-platform support
- User-defined variables
- Support for continuous-roll labels
- Many new product templates
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| Platform | Files | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Archlinux | Archlinux User Repository Page | Maintained by Maud Spierings |
| Ubuntu | PPA Page | Maintained by Kristopher Ives |
| Fedora | Copr Repository Page | Maintained by Mario Blättermann |
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Glbarcode
gLabels-qt currently includes a version of the glbarcode++ library, located in the "glbarcode/" subdirectory. It is licensed under the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (LGPL); either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. See glbarcode/LICENSE.
Template Database
The XML files in the "templates/" subdirectory constitute the glabels label database. No copyright is claimed on the facts contained within the database and can be used for any purpose. The files themselves are licensed using the MIT/X license. See templates/LICENSE.