mailing-label-cli generates PDFs for printing on labels. It can output the same content on each label or do a data merge ("mail merge") to output unique labels.
This CLI is a simple Ruby program that generates PDFs directly using the Prawn library. You can adapt it for your own purposes by copying a single file.
Run bin/make-labels --help for information on various options.
By default, make-labels will generate a debug sheet for the current template that can be printed and used to check the measurements.
Use --template to specify the output template to use.
To generate a PDF the same text content on each label, use --content.
To generate a PDF where each label's content comes from a TSV data source, use --merge-data with the input file path. Use --format to reference columns in the data. For example, use %street to output a column with the header street.
You can use Prawn inline styles in your format string, like <font size='8'>Small</font>. See "text/inline.rb" in the Prawn manual for information about supported formatting.
Each directory in ./examples contains run.sh with a sample invocation of make-labels.
Run bin/examples to generate the output of all examples. To run a single example, cd to that directory, add the bin directory to the path, and run run.sh:
cd examples/debug
PATH="../../bin:$PATH" ./run.sh- WeasyPrint. "WeasyPrint is a smart solution helping web developers to create PDF documents. It turns simple HTML pages into gorgeous statistical reports, invoices, tickets…"
- Label Nation. "LabelNation is a command-line program for making labels: address labels, business cards, or anything else involving regularly-arranged rectangles on a printer-ready sheet"
Some of the code in this tool is adapted from prawn-labels.