Making Labels from python
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Sun Mar 9 18:53:41 EDT 2014
On 3/9/2014 5:29 PM, Ulrich Goebel wrote:
> 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?
Get a label printing program that you can call from python with
subprocess. Or look at the following
https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=label+printing&submit=search
The top hit is pylabels, which uses ReportLab.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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