Editing Burn covers in Labels by Zaweba
With Labels by Zaweba installed, Burn by Zaweba saves its disc label and insert as .ozl designs and opens the label in Labels for editing.
The covers Burn makes are ready to print as they are. When you want to make a label truly your own, with pictures, shapes or text of your own, the Open in Labels by Zaweba button hands the design over to Labels, a full label editor.
It is a hand-off between two Zaweba apps, and it takes one click.
This option appears when Labels by Zaweba is installed on the same PC. Burn by Zaweba makes the covers, and Labels does the editing, so you need both.
What the button does
When you choose Open in Labels by Zaweba from Labels and covers, Burn writes the designs as .ozl files, which is Labels' own format. It saves a round 118 mm disc label and a 120 mm insert, each set up as a custom single-label page. They go into a folder called Burn covers inside your Documents folder.
Then Burn opens the disc label in Labels, ready to edit.
Why only the label opens
Labels takes one file at a time, so Burn opens the disc label and saves the front insert design beside it in the same folder. When you have finished with the label, open the insert from Documents, Burn covers, and carry on with that.
This is worth knowing so you don't think the insert has gone missing. It is there, next to the label.
A typical workflow
Make your disc as usual, say an audio CD for a birthday. When Burn offers covers, open Labels and covers, then choose Open in Labels by Zaweba. In Labels, change the design however you like: a picture in the middle, a few shapes, a message of your own. Save and print from Labels.
Then open the insert from the Burn covers folder and give it the same look, so the case and disc match.
For a backup set, the same route lets you add your own style to the disc labels, while the set and disc number from Burn keep the order clear.
Why .ozl files
Because Burn saves the designs as .ozl files rather than only as a finished PDF, they stay editable. You can come back to them in Labels later, change a line of text, and print again, which suits a design you reuse, such as a family photo disc you make every year.
Keeping designs in order
Keep the Burn covers folder tidy. Each time you open a design in Labels, new files are written there, so rename the ones you want to keep with something meaningful, such as the album or the backup set's name.
Check the size before printing. The designs are made at the disc and insert sizes, so printing them at actual size from Labels keeps everything fitting.
If you don't need custom editing, stay in Burn. The PDFs from Labels and covers are quicker when the standard design does the job.
One of several hand-offs
This hand-off is one of several between Zaweba apps. Play by Zaweba can send a playlist to Burn, Disk Sort can send files to burn, and Burn in turn sends covers on to Labels. Each app does its own part, and Burn by Zaweba sits in the middle of the disc jobs.
