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

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

Re: Making Labels from python

2014-03-09 Thread Ben Finney
Ulrich Goebel m...@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

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 send it to the

Re: Making Labels from python

2014-03-09 Thread Marko Rauhamaa
Ben Finney ben+pyt...@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

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 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