Re: Making Labels from python

2014-03-09 Thread Ulrich Goebel
Many thanks for the moment. I will try reportlab the next days. Am 09.03.2014 22:29, schrieb Ulrich Goebel: 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

Re: Making Labels from python

2014-03-09 Thread Terry Reedy
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

Re: Making Labels from python

2014-03-09 Thread Marko Rauhamaa
Ben Finney : > 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

Re: Making Labels from python

2014-03-09 Thread Irmen de Jong
On 9-3-2014 22:29, 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 sen

Re: Making Labels from python

2014-03-09 Thread Ben Finney
Ulrich Goebel 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 compr

Re: Making Labels from python

2014-03-09 Thread Gary Herron
On 03/09/2014 02:29 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 labe

Making Labels from python

2014-03-09 Thread Ulrich Goebel
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 page