v2.6.0

• Process date in Python instead of TeX. This removes the requirement fo the datetime2 package
• Improve printing of sample names to command line (fixes #16)
• Prevent skipped stickers collapsing into a single line
• Prevent an empty page at the end of the document in case stickers exactly fill up one or multiple pages

v2.5.0

• Use xelatex executable instead of pdflatex
• Let locale dictate input encoding (usually UTF-8 on Unix, ANSI on Windows)
• Refactor code
• Bump minimum Python version to 3.11 (from 3.10)

v2.4.0

• Add command line arguments allowing to run generateStickers in non-interactively. A warning message has also been added when running the script without any arguments
• Check if LaTeX is installed and available. Exit script if this is not the case
• Open PDF using platform-specific command
• Use Colorama for cross-platform text formatting
• Warn user if overly long sample names are used

v2.3.2

• Fix ANSI text formatting not working on Windows

v2.3.1

• Bug fix: Update number of stickers to print after skipping stickers
• Minor code and comment refactoring

v2.3

This release has long been overdue. It includes both new features and bugs that I've collected over the last (almost) two years. In the course of these update generateStickers.py now depends on Python 3.10+

• Allow user to print empty stickers at the beginning of the sheets. This is useful if a number of stickers from a sheet have already been used
• Change how user is queried for date printing: By default today's date is printed in iso format (yyyy-mm-dd). No date or custom dates (directly put in by the user) are also possible
• Introduced sensible default options for all choices the user has to make. This makes it possible to simply press [ENTER] on each query, speeding up the process of typesetting a sticker sheet
• Print empty sticker if index is out of bound. This ensures that table rows are filled up and fixes a bug that occured when the number of stickers was not a multiple of 7
• Moved bigger chunks of LaTeX into their own files located in the resources folder
• Fix bug which caused empty lines in the sample names file to crash the script
• Escape a bigger set of special characters in LaTeX output. Function adapted from
• Allow reading lines from file with non-unicode encoding
• Did some code refactoring and cleaning

v2.2

• Fixed an issue where sample names longer than 20 characters would break the layout
• Made further changes to case handling of user input and fixed samples names as well as file names being converted to lower case
• If user does not want to include the date on the sticker, they are not asked further questions about date formatting anymore

v2.1

• Changed location of input file deletion command as it lead to its unwanted loss under certain circumstances and moved definition of file path to accommodate that change
• Added logic to put date on new line if sticker name is short and moved special character escape after string length is used for formatting
• Removed a couple of newline characters from output to make it more compact
• Changed case handling of user input
• LaTeX formatting: Took \DATE command out of \mbox as it was unnecessary and lead to extra whitespaces under certain circumstances
• LaTeX formatting: switched to \par from \newline to avoid horizontal space added by the latter command
• expanded How To Use section, added changelog and some other small changes to README
• Added .DS_Store file to gitignore

v2.0

• initial release of the completely rewritten Python version (v1.X was written in Bash)