Printing multiple labels

[rickbps]

I see in the documentation that it is possible to print two labels sequentially by using two separate dicts.

If I have x number of records in a table and want to loop through them, is it possible to print them on one PDF?

[veghp]

Can you please point to that part of documentation and also clarify what you mean? What format (Python object) do you have your table in?

There are examples in https://github.com/Edinburgh-Genome-Foundry/blabel/tree/master/examples for printing several items per page, reading from spreadsheet etc

[rickbps]

Hello,

The documentation shows how to print two labels on one PDF as follows:

`from blabel import LabelWriter

label_writer = LabelWriter("item_template.html", default_stylesheets=("style.css",)) records= [ dict(sample_id="s01", sample_name="Sample 1"), dict(sample_id="s02", sample_name="Sample 2") ]

label_writer.write_labels(records, target='qrcode_and_label.pdf')`

My requirements are:

• Users go to a PHP page that interacts with a MYSQL database.
• On the page, they can filter a long list of items by ID number
• They could, for example, end up with a group of 6 items that share a common ID number
• Right now, my page has a button for each item that uses blabel to print a label for each item
• What I would like to do is have one button that prints all six lables (or whatever the item count is) on one PDF

[veghp]

I see the problem now. The package is designed around a fixed PDF page or label size as that's how label printers (or printers in general) operate. But you have variable number of items, which means different PDF sizes. As I mentioned, it's possible to print several items per page, or see this example: https://github.com/Edinburgh-Genome-Foundry/blabel/issues/6

And here is an example for working from tables (spreadsheet / dataframe): https://github.com/Edinburgh-Genome-Foundry/blabel/tree/c95052f562af44ef47e2ec5b220ffbb3b721659b/examples/labels_from_spreadsheet

Alternatively you can work directly with WeasyPrint or PDF Reports.

[rickbps]

The printing from table/label is closest to what I need, so maybe I can use that. Thank you.