The Label Printing Utility (LPU) is a tool for creation of forms, labels and so on.
In the beginning, LPU was developed on a Atari ST with a K&R-C-Compiler. Later, it was ported to ANSI-C under QNX, then to Linux.
Current development takes place under Linux.
Written in pure ANSI-C, it should compile without problems on almost all flavors of UNIX, and - with a minimum of changes - many other systems too. LPU is known to build under Linux and QNX.
Currently, the primary use of LPU is the creation of simple labels and forms using mainly text information.
LPU is able to create single labels, a number of identical labels (visiting cards etc.), or a number of similar, but slightly differing labels (video cassette labels etc.). The third kind of labels can be created using an import interface for structured text information.