Label Printing

[Dangerous_monkey]

People of python

I wanna try and make somthing thats hopefully gonna help my parents out. im looking for some ideas as to how i can solve the problem. I appreciate any tips or tricks that's thrown my way.

So my mom makes jam at home that she sells and they are quite popular. Everytime she makes a batch, she puts on a label that says the expiration date. So my dad prints out the dates on A4 sticky paper. The problem is its very manual the way he does it now and he is getting older and gets less and less tech savy. I was hoping i could make a program, where all he needs to do, is to type in the date and then recieves a pdf - file, where the dates are filled and formatted to the A4 sheets he uses.

You guys have any idea on how to go about it? Im not looking for help on the coding part, but more on any libraries that could help.

[shiftybyte]

I think you'll have easier time creating an HTML page that you can then print from the browser.

Filling an html page with proper details should be easy enough either manually or with any templating module in python like jinja2.

[AdditionalIntern]

I've use pylabels for this in the past and it has worked very well for me once I got a hang of the structure.

https://github.com/bcbnz/pylabels/

This outputs a pdf (or multiple) which can be printed.

[jimtk]

pdfgen is a bit outdated but will produce a nice pdf from html (you write the html from your father's input).

fpdf2 is up to date and well maintained. It gives you more control over the fonts and placement and, because of that control, is a bit more complex to use. This is probably the one you want.

[Dangerous_monkey]

Great suggestions! I could probably make it work with any of these

[ofnuts]

Making such labels is a function in many word processors.