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  Re: Making Labels from python Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-03-10 09:21 +1100
    Re: Making Labels from python Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-03-10 00:31 +0200

#68099 — Re: Making Labels from python

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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Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>:

> The most reliable “ready to print” document formats are:
>
> * plain text
> * PDF

You might also consider PostScript. It can be emitted from any
programming language without any special support (and any special
support would probably only get in the way).

A possibility is also the xlwt module, which allows you to generate
Excel documents. I have used to great success, but the results may not
be ready to print.


Marko

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