On Wednesday 27 March 2002 09:52 pm, David Johanson wrote:

Anyone recommend a program that actually can write a CD label that prints correctly? Sure would like to find one.

Here's a LaTeX program that generates a nice package label (for me at least). Paul -------------------------- \documentclass{article} \usepackage{rotating,helvet} \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault} \font \coverfont = phvr at 40pt \font \sidefont = phvr at 12pt \newlength{\panelheight} \newlength{\panelwidth} \newlength{\sidewidth} \setlength{\panelheight}{4.625in} \setlength{\panelwidth}{5.375in} \setlength{\sidewidth}{0.25in} \begin{document} % Ask for the side panel and center panel text \typein [\sidetext] {Type the side text now.} \typein [\centertext] {Type the center text now, with \\ for line breaks.} \setbox0=\hbox to \panelheight {\hfill \sidefont \sidetext \hfill} \setbox0=\vbox to \sidewidth{\hrule \vfill \box0 \vfill \hrule} % box0 is now the side panel, but horizontal \setbox1=\vbox to \panelheight{% \vfill \hbox to \panelwidth{\hfill\vbox{ \begin{center}\coverfont \baselineskip 55pt \centertext \end{center}}\hfill}% \vfill } % box1 is now the center panel \setbox0=\hbox{% \begin{sideways}\copy0\end{sideways}% \box1 \raise 4.625in \hbox{\begin{turn}{-90}\box0\end{turn}}% } % box0 is now the cover but without the top and bottom hrules \vbox{\hrule\box0\hrule} \end{document}