Making Labels from python

[Ulrich Goebel]

Hallo,

has anybody an idea how to make small formated documents redy to print
with python?

I would like to print address labels as

firstname lastname
street and number
cip and city

The best should be to form a PDF and send it to the label printer. So
the PDF could be given the pagesize (labelsize) and a minimum format
(boldface). But may be there is another light-weight-format besides PDF?

Any idea?

Ulrich

 

[Irmen de Jong]

Hallo,

has anybody an idea how to make small formated documents redy to print with python?

I would like to print address labels as

firstname lastname
street and number
cip and city

The best should be to form a PDF and send it to the label printer. So the PDF could be
given the pagesize (labelsize) and a minimum format (boldface). But may be there is
another light-weight-format besides PDF?

Any idea?

Ulrich

If generating PDF is too heavy for your liking, you could generate some simple HTML
instead and use appropriate CSS (page-break etc) to make it suitable for correct
printing (which you can do from your web browser). I've used this technique rather
successfully myself and generating the HTML for address labels should be fairly trivial.
Getting the css right can be a bit of trial and error depending on the browser you're using.


Irmen