fill out bulletins

[jak]

Il 13/06/2022 23:58, Mats Wichmann ha scritto:
> On 6/13/22 11:11, Michael F. Stemper wrote:
>> On 13/06/2022 08.49, jak wrote:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> I would like to write a tool to compile post office bulletins because
>>> here, unfortunately, they are still the most convenient way to interface
>>> the public administration. I don't want to create a UI to edit the
>>> bulletin, I will take the data from some file or database but I'd like
>>> to print or save the bulletin to the file with all the fields filled in.
>>> To accomplish this, I thought about creating a basic graphic (jpg?) file
>>> with the bulletin image,
>>
>> Please don't create an image. Create something that preserves
>> text as text, so that your recipients can (if they so desire)
>> search on that text, or copy/paste from your bulletin.
> 
> Absolutely agree. We're having a flood of people post code on Twitter
> and LinkedIn, which don't support code markup/markdown, so they post
> images.  There are several tools that make really pretty pictures... and
> they're completely useless as you can't pick the code out of them. Hate
> this.
> 
>> Somebody suggested TeX/LaTeX. Excellent idea.
>>
> 
> Don't know what a "post office bulletin" is, but this sounds like a
> template problem ("all the fields filled in"). There are a lot of
> templating engines in the Python world from string handling in the
> standard library
> (https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#template-strings) to
> tools like JInja and Cheetah and a host of others.  I think there are
> many of these listed on the wiki - maybe something here would suit your
> needs?
> 
> https://wiki.python.org/moin/Templating
> 

If you are interested in seeing what I called "post office bulletin"
(English is not my language and I don't know the name, sorry), you can
find a sample pdf (fillable) but it works badly here:

https://www.guardiacostiera.gov.it/venezia/Documents/Bollettino%20MOD.%20TD123.pdf