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User Guide

Getting started, generation, administration, formulas, command line: the complete ceelab manual.

ceelab produces labels and PDF documents from your own document types. The diagram below sums up how it works; each page of the guide covers one part of the application.

Document typeShipped parcelFieldsRecipient · TextWeight (kg) · NumberFragile · Yes/NoParcel no. · CounterTemplatesParcel label 4 × 6 inLabelDelivery note A4Document (PDF)One copyPrinted labellabel printerSaved PDFoutput foldersame values, same number
A document type brings together its fields and its templates; each copy produces every selected output, with the same values and the same number.
  1. Getting startedInstall ceelab, open it for the first time, set the password and produce a first label.
  2. GenerationEnter values, build a batch, generate and reprint from the Generation window.
  3. AdministrationOpen the administration, read the diagnostics, configure the computer and back up.
  4. Document typesCreate a type, define its fields, its counters and its output files, and attach templates to it.
  5. Templates and the labDesign a label or a document in the visual editor, place variables and expressions in it, import a Word or ODT document.
  6. Formulas and expressionsCalculate a value, set a condition, format a date or a number, in a Formula field or in a template.
  7. History and dataFind, regenerate and export the documents produced; import and export the tables; back up; where the data is stored.
  8. The cee command lineGenerate, print, reprint and correct from a terminal or a script, with the cee command.
  9. TroubleshootingForgotten password, interface error, printer that does not print.