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Converting a base64 string to a .PNG file and printing to a label printer.

  • March 21, 2023
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Does Rocket / Universe support converting a base64 string to a .PNG file and routing that file item to a label printer?

Any advice or direction would be appreciated.



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Jim Scott
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Gardens Alive
Lawrenceburg IN US
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  • March 22, 2023

Does Rocket / Universe support converting a base64 string to a .PNG file and routing that file item to a label printer?

Any advice or direction would be appreciated.



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Jim Scott
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Gardens Alive
Lawrenceburg IN US
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Hi Jim - I did something similar converting a digest to PDF using Python which worked out pretty well.  Here is one I found googling that might work

https://www.codespeedy.com/convert-base64-string-to-image-in-python/



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Karl Pozmann
Karl Pozmann
Akron OH US
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John Greeen
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  • March 22, 2023

Does Rocket / Universe support converting a base64 string to a .PNG file and routing that file item to a label printer?

Any advice or direction would be appreciated.



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Jim Scott
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Gardens Alive
Lawrenceburg IN US
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If you have the base64 string in a Universe variable you can use the ENCODE function to get the original PNG byte array in to another variable, then use WRITEBLK to write the byte array to a Unix file, then use a Unix command to send that file to the printer.



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John Green
Head of Technology
Ultradata Australia Pty Ltd
Malvern East VIC AU
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