inkscape

.gitignore

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 #  option (not recommended) you can uncomment the following to ignore the entire idea folder.
 #.idea/
 
+labels/

README.md

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 fancy name, QL-570 text formater
 
-using gpt i got a shell script and then a python one. the python tries to detect letter width and maximise it to fit the label printer constraints (62mm width)
 
-TDLR  
-`sudo brother_ql -b pyusb --model QL-570 -p usb://0x04f9:0x2028/000M12345678 print -l 62 logo.png`
-
-TODO:  
+### TODO
   - use as printer 
-  - fix missing font defentions fail to take into account letter width
+    - works, but cant detect the length of text, will output a set (page?) length
+  - fix missing font defentions 
+    - fail to take into account letter width
   - telegram bot (!)
+
+## CLI
+`sudo brother_ql -b pyusb --model QL-570 -p usb://0x04f9:0x2028/000M12345678 print -l 62 logo.png`
+## python
+python tries to detect letter width and maximise it to fit the label printer constraints (62mm width)  
+`python thermatext.py "label to print"`
+
+## inkscape
+[gptgist](https://gist.github.com/5shekel/98cc4898a1a8c7a5a1b305acc01d4326)  
+
+inskcape user extension path  
+`/home/${USER}/.config/inkscape/extensions`
+
+symbolic link the dir fro here to the inkscape extension
+`ln -s /home/${USER}/yair/thermatext/inkscape /home/${USER}/.config/inkscape/extensions/thermatext`  
+then check  
+```bash
+find ~/.config/inkscape/ -type l
+```
+
+takes from the [inkscape-silhouette](https://github.com/fablabnbg/inkscape-silhouette) extension, as in, how to install.
+
+```bash
+$ git clone https://github.com/fablabnbg/inkscape-silhouette
+Cloning into 'inkscape-silhouette'...
+remote: Enumerating objects: 2764, done.
+remote: Counting objects: 100% (795/795), done.
+remote: Compressing objects: 100% (364/364), done.
+remote: Total 2764 (delta 483), reused 657 (delta 416), pack-reused 1969
+Receiving objects: 100% (2764/2764), 8.53 MiB | 3.64 MiB/s, done.
+Resolving deltas: 100% (1786/1786), done.
+
+$ cd inkscape-silhouette/
+
+$ make install-local 
+
+mkdir -p locale
+mkdir -p /home/devdesk/.config/inkscape/extensions
+cp -r silhouette /home/devdesk/.config/inkscape/extensions
+install -m 755 *silhouette*.py /home/devdesk/.config/inkscape/extensions
+install -m 644 *.inx /home/devdesk/.config/inkscape/extensions
+cp -r locale /home/devdesk/.config/inkscape/extensions
+mkdir -p /home/devdesk/.config/inkscape/templates
+install -m 644 templates/*.svg /home/devdesk/.config/inkscape/templates
+
+```

inkscape/print.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+sudo brother_ql -b pyusb --model QL-570 -p usb://0x04f9:0x2028/000M6Z401370 print -l 62 ~/text285.png

inkscape/thermo.inx

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<inkscape-extension xmlns="http://www.inkscape.org/namespace/inkscape/extension">
+    <_name>therma</_name>
+    <id>org.inkscape.effect.exportandrunscript</id>
+    <dependency type="executable" location="extensions">thermatext/thermo.py</dependency>
+    <effect>
+        <object-type>all</object-type>
+    </effect>
+    <script>
+        <command reldir="extensions" interpreter="python">thermatext/thermo.py</command>
+    </script>
+    <category>Fx</category>
+</inkscape-extension>

inkscape/thermo.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+import inkex
+import os
+import subprocess
+
+class ExportAndRunScript(inkex.EffectExtension):
+
+    def effect(self):
+        # Define the export file path
+        png_file_path = "~/yair/exported.png"
+        
+        # Get the current selection
+        selection = self.svg.selected
+
+        # If there's no selection, show an error and exit
+        if not selection:
+            inkex.dialogs.errormsg("No selection to export.")
+            return
+        
+        # Export the selection to PNG
+        self.export_selection_to_png(selection, png_file_path)
+        
+        # Run the bash script on the exported PNG
+        self.run_script_on_png(png_file_path)
+        
+    def export_selection_to_png(self, selection, png_file_path):
+        # Create a command that calls Inkscape's command line interface to export the selection to a PNG
+        command = ["inkscape", "--export-area-drawing", "--export-dpi=96", "--export-background-opacity=0", "-o", "{}".format(png_file_path)]
+        
+        # Add the IDs of the selected items to the command
+        for id, item in selection.items():
+            command.append("--export-id={}".format(id))
+            
+        # Run the command
+        subprocess.check_call(command)
+
+    def run_script_on_png(self, png_file_path):
+        # Define the path to your bash script
+        bash_script_path = "print.sh"
+        
+        # Create a command that calls the bash script with the PNG as an argument
+        command = ["bash", bash_script_path, png_file_path]
+        
+        # Run the command
+        subprocess.check_call(command)
+        
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    ExportAndRunScript().run()