schilder2000

Schildergenerator reloaded – generate and print signs using a common design from a simple web interface. A rewrite from scratch of the old schildergenerator. Adapted from its README [1]:

You might find it useful in the following scenarios:

• You need to set up an event where visitors need signs to point them around.
• You often need to change some signs in your organization.
• You’re bored in the Fachschaftsbüro.

What you need for this tool to unleash its maximum potential:

• A printer on premise.
• Some kind of server, preferrably running a flavor of Linux, capable of printing on said printer via IPP. A RaspberryPi would suffice, even if it’s slow.
• Web clients of any type being able to connect to said server.
• The knowledge to modify a HTML template to fit your organizations design.

After you put in the initial work of setting this up, you’ll have a service where everyone on your team can quickly create a new sign as soon as they see a need for it (provided they’ve got a mobile web client) just by typing a headline and some text, selecting or uploading an image -- and by the time they arrive at the printer, the sign is already printed and ready to be posted on the wall. All while heeding the event’s design.

This tool frees the event organisators of the responsibility to pre-think all the details of sign-making. Instead, this part can simply be delegated to the helpers who are setting up the event by showing them the web frontend of this tool.

See docs/installation.rst for installation instructions. To build the documentation as HTML locally, run pdm run docs and open docs/_build/index.html.