After hearing from me that several users of the Piano Roll Label Maker
(PRBLM) are having issues getting the program to install and run, my
husband created a tool that will let them convert the label templates
from the RBL encoded format to one that can be edited using most image
editing software.

This new program is named rbl2gif, and is available on GitHub, an
archive that many developers use to share their code. The program is
available both as source code and a binary that can be used on current
Windows versions. The address of this project is

  https://github.com/robertjones-x/rbl2gif 

This program is only useful to people that already own the PRBLM
software that includes the encoded label templates. There aren't any
templates included with this program, and we don't have any to share.
Hopefully this will help those that own the program to continue to get
value from the hard work that the program's author invested in creating
these templates.

The recent request to be able to add templates to the ones provided
with PRLBM led him to write a second program that converts a label
background in gif format to the label maker's custom format. Putting
the converted background into the folder on your computer where the
templates live should make it appear on the list.

However, that only makes the label background image readable by PRLBM
and does not tell PRLBM where to put the words so they appear correctly.
That is accomplished in PRBLM by means of .TXC files for each template.
You will have to create a .TXC file for each template you import by
hand. Rob has put an explanation of the .TXC file format in the GitHub
repository as well.

Before you do anything with the converter programs, you must read the
README file in the archive, as it includes important directions. To
run the free version of PRBLM for testing his code, my husband used a
virtual machine running Windows 7 (created by him in the Cloud using
install files he still has). GitHub will keep the work he's done
available forever, or at least the modern tech version of "forever".
With any luck, folks will find one or the other of his converters
useful!

Monica Jones - for Rob Jones, the tech expert in our house
Simi Valley, California