CircularLabels 1.0.0

CircularLabels

This is a simple console application that supports A4 sheets of 7 by 10 circular self adhesive labels like the ones you can buy here.

Backgroud

As a homebrewer I always intend to put fancy labels on my bottles, that holds details about the brew, links to Untappd and what have we...

In reality, I often find my refrigerator full of unlabeled bottles perhaps with different color lids, but often only with a different shade of content to identify my homebrews.

Then I learned about the little round labels that fit on the lid and was no big deal to apply when bottling day was up.

Obviusly I could just put a few letters on the label with a pen, but being a passionate programmer, I had to come up with a solution to use my laser printer to put something on my labels.

Installation

Install the application with this command:

dotnet tool install CircularLabels --global

This requires that you have dotnet 6 or later installed.

Usage

From a command line, simply type:

CircularLabels.exe --help

and the following help-screen will be displayed:

CircularLabels v.1.0.0.0
Usage: CircularLabels.exe [OPTIONS]
Builds a PDF with circular labels on an A4 sheet with 7 x 10 labels.

Options:
  -i, --image=VALUE          Path to .png .jpeg or .bmp image to put on labels.
  -t, --text=VALUE           Text to put on labels. (lines can be separated by
                               pipe | character)
  -s, --skip=VALUE           Number of labels to skip.
  -n, --number=VALUE         Number of labels to print.
  -o, --output=VALUE         Output filename.
  -p, --placeholder          Show adjustment placeholders.
  -h, --help                 show this message and exit

So if you have an image called BeerSanta.png in the Images directory, you cold type:

CircularLabels.exe -i ".\Images\BeerSanta.png" -t "My Beer|Christmas|2022" -o Labels.pdf

which would produce a pdf using 20 labels and skipping the first 12:

Big kudos to Marcin Ziąbek for his excelent work with QuestPDF and the folks behind SkiaSharp