I've a Zebra ZT610 and I want to print a label, in pdf format, containing multiple pages and then have it cut on the last page. I've tried using the delayed cut mode and sending the ~JK command but I'm using a self written java application to do the invocation of printing. I've also tried to add the string "${^XB}$" into the PDF document before each page break, except the last, and used the pass-through setting in the driver to inhibit the cut command but that seems to not work either as the java print job is rendering such text as an image.
I've tried the official Zebra driver as well as using the NiceLabel zebra driver too in the hope that they may have more "Custom Commands" options in the settings but nothing has yet come to light.
After we had the same issues for several weeks and neither the vendor nor google nor Zebra's own support came up with a FULL working solution, we've worked out the following EASY 5 step solution for this (apparently pretty common) Zebra Cutter issue/problem:
Step 1:
Set Cutter-Mode to Tear-Off in the settings.
This will disable the auto-cutting after every single page.
Step 2: Go to Customer-Commands in the settings dialog (Allows ZPL coding).
Step 3: Set the first drop-down to "DOCUMENT".
Step 4: Set the Start-Section to "TEXT" and paste in
^XA^MMD^XZ^XA^JUS^XZ
MMD enables PAUSE-Mode. The JK command is only available in Pause-Mode and many Zebra printers do not support the much easier command CN (Cut-Now).
JUS saves the setting to the printer.
Step 5: Set the End-Section to "ANALYZED TEXT" and paste in
˜JK˜PS
JK sets the cut command to the end of the document, PS disables the pause mode (and thus starts printing immediately). When everything looks as described above, hit "APPLY" and your Zebra printer will automatically cut after the end of each document you send to it. You just send your PDF using sumatra or whatever you prefer. The cutter handling is now automatically done by the printer settings.
Alternatively, if you want to do this programmaticaly, use the START and END codes at the corresponding positions in your ZPL code instead. Note that ˜CMDs cannot be send in combination with ^CMDs, thats why there's no XA...XZ block to reset any settings (which is not necessary in this scenario as it only affects the print session and PS turns the pause mode back to OFF).
I had similar concern but as the print server was CUPS, I wasn't able to use Windows drivers and utilities (settings dialog). So basically, I did the following:
On the printer, set Cutter mode. This will cut after each printed label.
In my Java code, thanks to Apache PDFBox lib, open the PDF and for each page, render it as a monochrome BufferedImage, get bytes array from it, and get its hex representation.
Write a few ZPL commands to download hex as graphic data, and add the ^XB command before the ^XZ one, in order to prevent a cut here, except for the last page, so that there is a cut only at the end of the document.
Send the generated ZPL code to the printer. In my case, I send it as a raw document through IPP, using application/vnd.cups-raw as mime-type, thanks to the great lib ipp-client-kotlin, but it is also possible to use Java native printing API with bytes.
Below in a snippet of Java code, for demo purpose:
public void printPdfStream(InputStream pdfStream) throws IOException {
try (PDDocument pdDocument = PDDocument.load(pdfStream)) {
PDFRenderer pdfRenderer = new PDFRenderer(pdDocument);
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
for (int pageIndex = 0; pageIndex < pdDocument.getNumberOfPages(); pageIndex++) {
boolean isLastPage = pageIndex == pdDocument.getNumberOfPages() - 1;
BufferedImage bufferedImage = pdfRenderer.renderImageWithDPI(pageIndex, 300, ImageType.BINARY);
byte[] data = ((DataBufferByte) bufferedImage.getData().getDataBuffer()).getData();
int length = data.length;
// Invert bytes
for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
data[i] ^= 0xFF;
}
builder.append("~DGR:label,").append(length).append(",").append(length / bufferedImage.getHeight())
.append(",").append(Hex.getString(data));
builder.append("^XA");
builder.append("^FO0,0");
builder.append("^XGR:label,1,1");
builder.append("^FS");
if (!isLastPage) {
builder.append("^XB");
}
builder.append("^XZ");
}
IppPrinter ippPrinter = new IppPrinter("ipp://printserver/printers/myprinter");
ippPrinter.printJob(new ByteArrayInputStream(builder.toString().getBytes()),
documentFormat("application/vnd.cups-raw"));
}
}
Important: hex data can (and should) be compressed, as mentioned in ZPL Programming Guide, section Alternative Data Compression Scheme for ~DG and ~DB Commands. Depending on the PDF content, it may drastically reduce the data size (by a factor 10 in my case!).
Note that Zebra's support provides a few more alternatives in order to controller the cutter, but this one worked immediately.
Zebra Automatic Cut - Found another solution.
Create a file with the name: Delayed Cut Settings.txt
Insert the following code: ^XA^MMC,N^XZ
Send it to the printer
After you do the 3 steps above, all the documents you send to the printer will be cut automatically.
(To disable that function send again the 'Delayed Cut Setting.txt' with the following code:^XA^MMD^XZ )
The first document you send to the printer, you need to ADD (just once) the command ^MMC,N before the ^XZ
My EXAMPLE TXT:
^XA
^FX Top section with logo, name and address.
^CF0,60
^FO50,50^GB100,100,100^FS
^FO75,75^FR^GB100,100,100^FS
^FO93,93^GB40,40,40^FS
^FO220,50^FDIntershipping, Inc.^FS
^CF0,30
^FO220,115^FD1000 Shipping Lane^FS
^FO220,155^FDShelbyville TN 38102^FS
^FO220,195^FDUnited States (USA)^FS
^FO50,250^GB700,3,3^FS
^FX Second section with recipient address and permit information.
^CFA,30
^FO50,300^FDJohn Doe^FS
^FO50,340^FD100 Main Street^FS
^FO50,380^FDSpringfield TN 39021^FS
^FO50,420^FDUnited States (USA)^FS
^CFA,15
^FO600,300^GB150,150,3^FS
^FO638,340^FDPermit^FS
^FO638,390^FD123456^FS
^FO50,500^GB700,3,3^FS
^FX Third section with bar code.
^BY5,2,270
^FO100,550^BC^FD12345678^FS
^FX Fourth section (the two boxes on the bottom).
^FO50,900^GB700,250,3^FS
^FO400,900^GB3,250,3^FS
^CF0,40
^FO100,960^FDCtr. X34B-1^FS
^FO100,1010^FDREF1 F00B47^FS
^FO100,1060^FDREF2 BL4H8^FS
^CF0,190
^FO470,955^FDCA^FS
^MMC,N
^XZ
I need some help with PHPEXCEL library, everything works great, I'm successfully extracting my SQL query to excel5 file, I need to give this file to transport company in order to auto collect informations about packages, unfotunately the generated excel file has some ascii characters between each letter of the cell text, and when the excel file is imported you need to manually delete these charaters.
If I open the excel file, everything is fine I see: COMPANY NAME, If I open the excel file with notepad++, I see the cell values this way: C(NUL)O(NUL)M(NUL)P(NUL)A(NUL)N(NUL)Y N(NUL)A(NUL)M(NUL)E
If I open again the file with excel and save, then reopen with notepad++ I see COMPANY NAME.
So I do not understan why every time I create an excel file using PHPEXCEL my every letter of all words are filled with (nul) every letter.
So how do I prevent the generated excel file to include (nul) between every word????
Also if you open the original excel file generated from PHPExcel samples are also filled with (nul) and if you open and save it, the (nul) is gone.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
what is the (nul) ??? 0x00??? char(0)???
ok, here is the example:
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', TRUE);
ini_set('display_startup_errors', TRUE);
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');
if (PHP_SAPI == 'cli')
die('Disponibile solo su browser');
require_once dirname(__FILE__) . '/Classes/PHPExcel.php';
$objPHPExcel = new PHPExcel();
$objPHPExcel->getProperties()->setCreator("Solidus")
->setLastModifiedBy("Solidus")
->setTitle("Import web")
->setSubject("Import File")
->setDescription("n.a")
->setKeywords("n.a")
->setCategory("n.a");
$objPHPExcel->setActiveSheetIndex(0)
->setCellValueExplicit("A1", "COMPANY")
->setCellValue('A2', 'SAMSUNG');
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setTitle('DDT');
$objPHPExcel->setActiveSheetIndex(0);
header('Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment;filename="TEST.xls"');
header('Cache-Control: max-age=0');
header('Cache-Control: max-age=1');
header('Cache-Control: private',false);
$objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'Excel5');
ob_end_clean();
$objWriter->save('php://output');
As you can see from this little example, this scripts creates a file excel5 with 2 cells, A1 = COMPANY, A2 = SAMSUNG
when I send this file to the transport company, they import the file into their system, but as you can see from the picture, there is an weird character between each letter.
so I noticed every time I open the generated Excel5 with notepad++ file I get:
S(nul)A(nul)M(nul)S(nul)U(nul)N(nul)G
If I save the save with excel and then open it again with notepad++ I get:
SAMSUNG
and this file is ok for the transport company
so my question is, how should I avoid the file generated to contain thi '(nul) charachter between each letter????
some help?
weird characters
SAMSUNG
I found the soluion by myself, I explain just in case anyone has also this problem:
there is not way to change the way the excelfile is encoded by PHPEXCEL
so I figured out the problem was reading the file, I did some simulations and reproduce the problem, every time a read the file and put the result into inputs a get weird characters:
C�O�M�P�A�N�Y�
If I set the output enconding enconding as follows:
$excel->setOutputEncoding('UTF-8');
the file loads fine, so the problem was not creating the excel file, but reading the excel file.
If I print the variable with ECHO I get: "COMPANY",
if I put the variable on input as value I get: "C�O�M�P�A�N�Y�"
setting the output solves the problem, but I would like to know why the difference when I put the variable on input as value, thanks
This script is supposed to open a series of web pages in a new browser window, and then open TextEdit with predetermined text and links.
Safari does what it is supposed to.
Text edit opens and pastes the text I want, but the links are not clickable.
I know I could just right click and choose Substitutions> Add Links> myself, but I am trying to automate the entire process.
I appreciate your time and efforts on my behalf! Thank you!
OpenWebPages()
OpenTextEditPage()
to OpenTextEditPage()
-- Create a variable for text
set docText to ""
tell application "TextEdit"
activate
make new document
-- Define the text to be pasted into TextEdit
set docText to docText & "Some text to show in TextEdit." & linefeed & "
My favorite site about coding is http://stackoverflow.com/
My favorite site for paper modeling is http://www.ss42.com/toys.html
My favorite site for inventing is http://www.instructables.com/howto/bubble+machine/
" & linefeed & "Click the links above to improve your mind!" as string
-- Past the above text and links into TextEdit
set the text of the front document to docText & "" as string
tell application "System Events"
tell process "TextEdit"
-- highlight all text
keystroke "a" using command down
-- Think of a clever way to right click and choose Substitutions> Add Links>
-- Or think of another clever way to turn all URLs into links please.
end tell
end tell
end tell
end OpenTextEditPage
to OpenWebPages()
-- Start new Safari window
tell application "Safari"
-- activate Safari and open the StackOverflow AppleScript page
make new document with properties {URL:"http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=applescript"}
-- Yoda is watching you
open location "http://www.ss42.com/pt/Yoda/YodaGallery/yoda-gallery.html"
-- Indoor boomerang
open location "http://www.ss42.com/pt/paperang/paperang.html"
-- Are you a Human ?
open location "http://stackoverflow.com/nocaptcha?s=f5c92674-b080-4cea-9ff2-4fdf1d6d19de"
end tell
end OpenWebPages
According to this question I built this little handler. It takes a path to your rtf-file like makeURLsHyper((path to desktop folder as string) & "TestDoc.rtf") and worked quite fine in my little tests. But it doesn't care about text formatting at this point.
on makeURLsHyper(pathOfRtfFile)
-- converting the given path to a posix path (quoted for later use)
set myRtfPosixPath to quoted form of (POSIX path of pathOfRtfFile)
-- RTF Hyperlink start
set rtfLinkStart to "{\\\\field{\\\\*\\\\fldinst HYPERLINK \""
-- RTF Hyperlink middle
set rtfMiddlePart to "\"}{\\\\fldrslt "
-- RTF Hyperlink end
set rtfLinkEnd to "}}"
-- use sed to convert http-strings to rtf hyperlinks
set newFileContent to (do shell script "sed -i bak -e 's#\\(http[^[:space:]]*\\)#" & rtfLinkStart & "\\1" & rtfMiddlePart & "\\1" & rtfLinkEnd & "#g' " & myRtfPosixPath)
end makeURLsHyper
Have a nice day, Michael / Hamburg
I am trying to add a Wingdings symbol using the following code to the docx.
P symp = factory.createP();
R symr = factory.createR();
Sym sym = factory.createRSym();
sym.setFont("Wingdings");
sym.setChar("FOFC");
symr.getContent().add(sym);
symp.getContent().add(symr);
mainPart.getContent().add(symp);
I get invalid content errors on opening the document. When I tried to add the symbols directly to a word docx, unzipped the docx and looked at the document.xml, I see the paragraph has rsidR and rsidDefault attributes. When I read about these attributes from this link, How to generate RSID attributes correctly in Word .docx files using Apache POI?, I see that they are random and only necessary to track changes in the document. So then, why does Microsoft word keeps expecting it and gives me the errors?
Any ideas/suggestions?
I wonder whether Sym support is in docx4j in the way you expect.
I tried your code and got the same issue, but I must confess to not having investigated symbols before. As an experiment, I added a symbol using the relevant “Insert” menu command in Word 2010, and then checked the resulting OpenXML—it’s really quite different to the mark-up expected when inserting an Sym element.
Rather than manipulating symbols, have you tried inserting the text directly instead? For example, this will insert a tick character (not sure if that’s what you’re after):
P p = factory.createP();
R r = factory.createR();
RPr rpr = factory.createRPr();
Text text = factory.createText();
RFonts rfonts = factory.createRFonts();
rfonts.setAscii("Wingdings");
rfonts.setCs("Wingdings");
rfonts.setHAnsi("Wingdings");
rpr.setRFonts(rfonts);
r.setRPr(rpr);
text.setValue("\uF0FC");
r.getContent().add(text);
p.getContent().add(r);
mainPart.getContent().add(p);
I want to display a hyperlink in a pygtk table:
cr=gtk.CellRendererText()
column=gtk.TreeViewColumn(name)
column.add_attribute(cr, "markup", 0)
my_liststore=['google', ...]
Hyperlink "a" seems not supported by the markup. I get this warning:
GtkWarning: Failed to set text from markup due to error parsing markup: Unknown tag 'a' on line 1
How can I display a hyperlink in a pygtk table? And of course it should open the browser if you click on it ...
Update
Several month after asking this question: Here is my personal advice: don't use gtk. It is a dead horse. I don't know if Qt is better. The way to go is web technology.
Here are the lines which I use now. The cell gets rendered with blue color and underlined. The double click event calls a callback with uses the webbrowser module.
table = gtk.TreeView(list_store)
cr = gtk.CellRendererText()
# allow pango markup
column.add_attribute(cr, "markup", i)
# connect double click handler:
self.timeline.connect('row-activated', self.on_treeview_click)
# content in the data rows:
u'<span foreground="blue" underline="single">%s</span>' % (
glib.markup_escape_text(name))
Callback:
def on_treeview_click(self, treeview, path, view_column):
model=treeview.get_model()
action_id=model[path][0]
url='....' # build your url
import webbrowser
webbrowser.open(url)