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Ulrich Goebel <ml@fam-goebel.de> writes:

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

The most reliable “ready to print” document formats are:

* plain text
* PDF

All others, AFAIK, are significantly less reliable for that purpose.

The “ReportLab PDF library” is a comprehensive library for this
<URL:https://pypi.python.org/pypi/reportlab/> for general page layout
and PDF generation.

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