Gregory SandersIf you get to the store and reach into your pocket for the list you printed at the house, and you suddenly realize you left it sitting on the kitchen counter, what do you do?
As an emergency backup strategy, I thought it might be good to figure out how to create a receipt-sized .pdf of the list and save it into one of the cloud storage services that everyone has on their phones and laptops/desktops/whatever.
The irony is not lost on me, but this would not be intended (at least not for me and my wife) to be the primary strategy for the shopping list.
Last night I worked through learning about the 'reportlab' module, and I was able to get a .pdf with the size and font spacing that was close enough to the actual printed receipt to satisfy me.
Next I'll move my test code over to the main app and see if I can get the whole thing to work.
7/15 UPDATE: It works, and now v1.6 is on Github. I'm really excited about how this has come together.
Actually, now if you want to use the .pdf as a list on your phone, you can just leave the printer IP set at it's default 192.168.254.254 and SL will print your list to the .pdf file and save it to the folder where your .xlsx file is located.
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