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gLabels, as packaged in the Ubuntu repositories, has not worked properly for some time. The accuracy of printing was way out making gLabels a non-starter unless you went to the hassle of manually re-aligning every label on a page to account for the inaccuracies.
However, I have been patiently waiting for a new version of gLables to be
released. The new development branch completely replaces libgnomeprint with
the new GtkPrintOperation and Cairo. The upshot of that is that the printing
accuracy issues are resolved.
GetDeb have released .debs for gLabels 2.2.1
that work with Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10. You can either download the .debs from the
gLabels page at GetDeb and let gdebi do its thing or do the following from the
shell…
wget -c ftp://cesium.di.uminho.pt/pub/getdeb/gl/glabels_2.2.1-1~getdeb1_i386.deb
wget -c ftp://cesium.di.uminho.pt/pub/getdeb/gl/glabels-data_2.2.1-1~getdeb1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i glabels*.deb
We print a lot of labels at work to identify media for flight recorders, that job just got a whole lot easier. More importantly, I now have a viable address label printing solution for my wife.