# thermatext

fancy name, QL-570 text formater


### TODO
  - use as printer 
    - 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

```