Types not listed above are still supported — you just have to tell LabelNation what sizes the labels are, and how many per page vertically and horizontally. (And then please send in your parameters, so there will be built-in support for those labels in future releases.) This chart of common label dimensions may help.
Reporting Bugs / Contributing New Label Types / Etc
If you have a bug to report, or would like to send in parameters for a new label type, please send email to:
labelnation {HYPHEN} dev {AT} red {HYPHEN} bean {DOT} com
Sorry for the obscured address; it's necessary to avoid spam. Remember that hyphen is "-", not underscore ("_").
Other Programs That Do Similar Things
There seem to be a lot of open source programs that perform a similar function.
LabelGrid is an open source project to do label printing purely through web-based technologies. I haven't tried it.
GLabels "is a program for creating labels and business cards for the GNOME desktop environment. It is designed to work with various laser/ink-jet peel-off label and business card sheets that you'll find at most office supply stores." Again, haven't used it myself.
Worldlabel.com offers free templates for making labels using OpenOffice.org, the open source office suite.
You might also want to try the PostScript::MailLabel Perl module. I've never used it, but it looks like it does basically the same thing. I think it can handle bar-codes too.
(This isn't open source, but: there seem to be a number of templates at Google Docs that offer label formatting essentially as an online service.)
Barcodes
LabelNation does not natively generate barcodes. However, the postscriptbarcode program can generate a wide variety of PostScript barcodes, and you could use it together with LabelNation (see the latter's --code-input option) to create labels with barcodes. The PostScript::MailLabel Perl module described above also apparently does barcodes.
I would welcome patches to give LabelNation native barcode support.
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