Bjorn's Label Studio

Say you want to print 4 rows and 3 columns of labels per sheet of paper and you want to cut the sheets yourself so there is no need for any space between the labels.

This can be done with the original sheet designer but it's not really straight forward. The new simplified designer solves this problem. Just select the paper (Letter, A4...) size, a row and column count and you are done.

Generate number data feature

On customer request the app now supports generating number data - great for printing sheets of stickers with a just a number.

(YT video)

List support

On customer request the app now supports lists.

A data column can now contain list data, e.g. Red;Yellow;Blue. You define the separator (; is the default). You can turn any text box into a list by using the new "List" property section in the side bar. Just enable the "list option". You can select which marker you want, "bullet" is the default and numbered lists are supported, both decimal, alpha and roman.

(YT video)

Preview row 1 in the designer

On customer request the app now supports previewing data from row 1 in the designer. The default (old) behavior is to show the column name in text boxes bound to data columns, which can be very annoying, especially when column names are long - there is now an option in the Options drop down to enable using the actual data from row 1.

(demo video)

Textbox edge painting improved

New Years Eve 2024 - you can now set which of the edges of a textbox to be painted (quite often you just want the bottom border). See video below for more details.

(demo video)

This feature is of course available in all apps using the same SVG drawing module, see for example Bjorn's Text Flow and Bjorn's Form Studio.

New line drawing mode

Dec 2024 - on customer request, the app has a new design feature (which of course should have been added long time ago) - a line drawing mode. See video below for more details.

(demo video)

This feature is of course available in all apps using the same SVG drawing module (e.g. Bjorn's Text Flow, Bjorn's Form Studio etc)

NEWS: Dec 2024 - your personal cloud folder

You can now store your Bjorn's Label Studio documents in a personal cloud storage folder, a.k.a your Bjorn's Cloud folder.

The File drop-down menu has an option to save documents to your cloud folder, and of course, you can open documents from the cloud with another option in the same menu.

New bindable checkbox elements

Nov 2024 - app now supports bindable checkbox elements. The state of a checkbox can be can be bound to a data column in your merge data source.

Values turning on a checkbox: true; yes; on; any number other than 0.
Values turning off a checkbox: false; no; off; 0.
Values setting the checkbox unset or intermediate state: null, undefined, notset, not-set.

See this Sheet for a sample data sheet using a column with checkbox states.

Checkboxes have quite a few formatting properties, see video for a demo of some of them. Worth noting is that you can use different fill colors for the three different states - perhaps useful as indicators on a badge?

A new checkbox palette has been added to the sidebars.

Make sure to checkout the video below.

(demo video)

Individual images for each label

Oct 2024 (4) - merge data and design and create individual images for each label/badge.

Save images to a local file system folder or upload to Google Drive or Google Photos.

(demo video)

Two-sided printing

Oct 2024 (3) - app has now support for two-sided printing.

(demo video)

Multi-column placeholder UI

Oct 2024 (2) - app has a new UI to make it more obvious how to create placeholders that fetch data from more than one data column - the "insert multi-column placeholder" dialog.

(short demo here)

Auto-adjust font size for placeholders

Oct 2024 (1) - auto-adjust font sizes: when turned on the app will decrease the font size of a placeholder until the text fits on one line in the generated labels.

(short demo here)

New handy?? context menus

Oct 14 2023. New context menus available in the rotate and resize handles of selected shapes.

(short YT video)

Quick print labels for temp data

Sep 3 2023. App has a new feature to print labels for a temp row of data. Assume you have created a great label design and you just want to re-use it from time to time to print a sheet of labels for some new data, then this is a feature for you. Open your great design and use the "Print a temp row..." option in the main toolbar. This option will open a UX in which you can quickly enter data for all data columns used in the design and then print using the current design.

Print selected row feature'

Sep 2023 - App has a new nifty feature (requested by customers) that allows you to generate multiple copies of the same label for a selected row of data.

You find the feature in the Data dropdown and in the on-hover menu to the left of a row in the Data tab.

(check out short YT video)

Template support

June 2023 - you can now use template files to save or load commonly used designs.

A template specifies the selected sheet definition and the label design but no data.

You an apply a template when you create a new project or later.

You can save any project as a template for future use.

Applying a template on a project replaces the selected sheet definition as well as the current label design.

Note: you will have to re-assign columns to items in the design if the columns used in the template don't match the columns used in the current design.

You assign columns using the 'Assign column...' in the right mouse button menu, aka. the context menu.

This short video shows how to apply a template as well as how to create a new one.

Templates are stored on your local hard drive with the .labeltemplate extension.

(check out short YT video)

Formatting columns

May 2019 - you can now use formatting columns to custom format some barcode labels.

A column named 'Color' sets the color for each field in a label.

A column named '[datacolumn] Color' sets the color for the field [datacolumn], e.g. if you have a data column 'FirstName', use a column with header 'FirstName Color' to set the color.

You can use CSS color names or CSS #RRRGGBB color values - read more here: w3school.com

In addition to Color you can use FontSize columns to set label specific font sizes.

See a sample Google Sheet using formatting columns here