[Build] Full-page labels for the workshop

[Henner Zeller]

I made a dozen or so labels, printed on letter and laminated  in 3mil
lamination pouches.
Laser printed, so should be fairly fade resistant; the plastic pouches
make it resilient to water sprinkles.

The labels are a set of texts I think we might need (and probably some
that we end up not needing); if you print more using the PostScript
hack from above, I can laminate them - I still have a bunch of
pouches.

--
Glue
--
Sticky
Tape
--
Hammer
--
Paint
--
Screw-
driver
--
Drills
Mills
--
Goggles
Gloves
--
Measuring
Tape, Ruler,
Caliper
--
Pliers/
Gripper
--
Clamps
--
Thread
Cutter
--
Ratchet &
Sockets
--

Will bring them tomorrow.
-h

On 3 November 2014 21:21, Henner Zeller <h.zeller at acm.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> I was thinking about the labeling-situation for boxes and shelves in
> the workshop and how to minimize the hassle creating them. Ideally, we
> want some laminated labels and font should be as large as possible to
> be able to quickly see things even from afar.
>
> So I wrote  a little postscript-program to create full-page labels
> without much effort. Just given a word (or words, possibly separated
> by newline), it maximizes the font-size to fit into that page, so no
> manual fiddling needed.
>
> Looks a bit like this:
>
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hzeller/postscript-hacks/master/img/page-label.png
>
> Code is here:
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hzeller/postscript-hacks/master/page-label.ps
>
> Pretty self-explanatory: Just download and at the end of the file,
> just add new words for which to print labels, send to the printer and
> done (You can watch how it looks by for instance using okular as a
> viewer).
>
> Say we want to print a page with 'Paint' printed on it; just append
> the following:
>
> %%Page:
> (Paint) show-max
>
> This can be good for the workshop, room-labels, warning labels,
> project name labels etc.
>
> I have a lamination machine at home, so if anyone prints some labels
> for the workshop on letter paper, I'll take them home and laminate
> them, so that we have nice, sturdy, permanent-ish labels that we can
> stick to boxes and shelves.
>
> Cheers,
>   Henner.