This is a port of webflipflapp by Andreas Poehlmann to run entirely on the command line interface (CLI) with minimal dependencies and to run self-contained in a single Python file.
It takes an .xlsx file as input and outputs a .tex file.
┌───────────┐ cliflipflapp ┌─────────┐
│.xlsx file ├────────────────►│.tex file│
└───────────┘ └─────────┘
cliflipflapp expects the .xlsx file to have a specific format. If this is not
true, Bad Things will happen.
The output format is designed to be printed on size A4 sheets of Avery Zweckform© 3667 Universal Labels 48.5 x 16.9 mm.
Tested with Ubuntu 20.04:
sudo apt install python3-xlrd
You can probably also use xlrd downloaded with pip.
python3 cliflipflapp.py /path/to/my-fly-sheet.xlsx
If all goes will, this will generate the file /path/to/my-fly-sheet.tex which
can be converted to PDF.
Although strictly speaking, converting to PDFs is not the task of cliflipflapp, it is useful to do so, and here are quick instructions:
Tested with Ubuntu 20.04:
sudo apt install texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-extra
Note that you may need to run this from the path with the .tex file. (In other words, do not specify the path to the .tex file as anything other than the current directory.)
pdflatex my-fly-sheet.tex