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