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Notes on building AlvaSuite products.
- One die, many SKUs Label packs share punches. AlvaLabel catalogs the die — cell, grid, and tab — and treats pack numbers as search aliases.
- Asking Windows what the printer will actually print GDI origin is the printable rectangle, not the sheet. AlvaLabel asks GetDeviceCaps for the hardware margins and paints the rest of the job in millimetres.
- Launching a Microsoft Store app from the command line Store and MSIX installs hide the real executable. An app execution alias in Package.appxmanifest puts AlvaStamp.exe back on PATH.
- Reading page labels and /PieceInfo from AlvaStamp PDFs Acrobat shows page labels. /PieceInfo is private page data — here are Python and Node scripts that print both.
- Localizing AlvaBars with Paraglide (en / de / fr / es) Wiring Paraglide into a Tauri SPA so the UI follows the OS or an explicit language choice.
- Bringing Fluent Design to a Tauri App on Windows 11 How we adapted AlvaBars for Windows 11 Fluent styling without forking the codebase.