Existing users, 
 iLabel - 1.7.1automates repetitive printing tasks like cards and labels |
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Feedback Summary:
| This Version: | |||||
| Overall Rating: |   (3.8) |
Features: | (3.3) |
Support: | (3.5) |
| Ease of Use: | (3.3) |
Quality / Stability: | (4.5) |
Price: | (3.3) |
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iLabel - Version: 1.7.1, 1/11/2005 03:12PM PST
flimfrik@aol.com
I was a big fan of MacLabel Pro, which I used for everything (address labels, files, stickers, repetitive text) until I switched into OS X over a year ago. Since then, I've been struggling w/the label feature of MS Word, which couldn't be less intuitive or sensible if someone had tried to make it that way! Yesterday, after about two hours of trying to get it to reformat the same file folder labels I made and saved last year at this time (with a new date) I got fed up and decided to try to replace my old easy program. I found iLabel and about twenty minutes later I had remade my complicated labels from scratch and they were ready to merge and print. I didn't even have the right Avery preset and I could do it with no problem. I got my registration code this morning and my labels are all done. I'm not going back. Thanks for a great program.
Can't Print - Version: 1.7.1, 12/17/2003 08:30PM PST
Whitefen
This would be a great program if I could print. When I first got the application it printed fine. Then, when I upgraded to OS X 10.1 my margins started printing incorrectly on my DeskJet 842c. I e-mailed the author and he gave me a list of things to try and none of them worked. The software was useless. So I bought a new printer (Canon i850) and I was back in business. Printed fine. Then, when I upgraded to OS X 10.3.1 it just stopped printing. Print dialog comes up fine and even looks like it spools then print center does not open (OS X 10.3.0 was fine). I e-mailed the author and was just told that I must have some sort of corrupt file somewhere. No help. This application is pretty good when it is printing but in over a year that has only been about 2 months. Unfortunately, I am having trouble finding an alternative and I feel ripped off for ever paying for iLabel in the first place.
The main thing that needs to be improved is the label editing, which is very primitive. The limitations of the editor are compounded because you don't appear to be able to zoom the working preview of the label. Placing things accurately in the small 1:1 representation of the label is rather trying, to say the least.
Also, it is not possible to see accurately where the end of lines comes because of the imprecise way in which the handles are displayed.
Other shortcomings of the editor include poor display of type (I don't believe it renders on-screen from the font outline, but using the obsolete screen font approach), no ability to directly edit text, and no ability to 'draw' graphics primitives on screen (you click on the tool and a box, line, circle etc pops up on the label, which you then drag to position and then resize).
If updated somewhat this would be a great tool for its purpose. As it is, it's only average. But it does get the job done!