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  Re: Making Labels from python Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-03-09 18:53 -0400

#68103 — Re: Making Labels from python

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.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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