[reportlab-users] Avery CD Label Templates

[Dinu Gherman]

Ian Sparks:

> I want to create labels in batch and programatically, glabels
> doesn't look like it will do that for me. I'm also running
> Windows.

I did something like that and found that the real trouble is not
writing the code for the templates, but translating your paper
template into Python code, while taking into consideration your
printer's distortion effects.

Below is an excerpt of a message I posted here about such a label
sample which I did using Platypus and a special CircularString
widget. The widget might be released one day ReportLab gets its
"community pages" done! ;-) You can see some more samples here:

   http://python.net/~gherman/CircularString.html

Dinu Gherman on "Forcing doc templates to use pagesize?" (2003-05-10):

> That does make sense. I think the Userguide is somewhat confusing
> about all this and might profit from a couple of examples, showing
> how to do everyday things. Perhaps something like this?:
>
>   http://python.net/~gherman/tmp/salsa.pdf (1.7 MB)
>
> It's a drawing wrapped in a Platypus story, which is the only way
> to get clipping working on it while still having reusable code...
>
> Hey, now I only need to grab the data from my iPod! ;-)

Regards,

Dinu

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