Basic Printing Support file identification

Anki Add-ons
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Guys, is there a way to make Basic Printing support identify the files with the name of the deck? It always exports my decks with the same identification:

browser:

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Thanks

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The header/footer is added by your browser, and can be turned off in the printing screen. If you want something other than ‘print.html’, you could rename the file before printing it.

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Thanks! Is there field to do this in the extension config?

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Nope, but you can modify the source code off the add-on to achieve this. You can access the file by opening Anki, then navigating to Tools -> Add-ons -> Select 'Basic Printing Support' -> View Files.

Next, open the file __init__.py in a text editor of your choice. Replace the line(s):

path = os.path.join(
    QStandardPaths.writableLocation(QStandardPaths.DesktopLocation), "print.html"
)

With the following:

path = os.path.join(
    QStandardPaths.writableLocation(QStandardPaths.DesktopLocation),
    mw.col.decks.name(mw.col.decks.selected()) + ".html"
)

Save the file and exit. When you restart anki the add-on will be updated, and each file will be named {deck_name}.html.

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IT WORKED, THANKS!
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This is a bit risky as-is, because you could create file names that could be invalid. Here is a snippet taken from Django’s slugifying module (which is rather conservative):

  • Add at the top of the file this
import unicodedata
import re

def slugify(value, allow_unicode=False):
    """
    Taken from https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/utils/text.py
    Convert to ASCII if 'allow_unicode' is False. Convert spaces or repeated
    dashes to single dashes. Remove characters that aren't alphanumerics,
    underscores, or hyphens. Convert to lowercase. Also strip leading and
    trailing whitespace, dashes, and underscores.
    """
    value = str(value)
    if allow_unicode:
        value = unicodedata.normalize('NFKC', value)
    else:
        value = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', value).encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode('ascii')
    value = re.sub(r'[^\w\s-]', '', value.lower())
    return re.sub(r'[-\s]+', '-', value).strip('-_')
  • Transform the snippet in
path = slugify(os.path.join(
    QStandardPaths.writableLocation(QStandardPath.DesktopLocation),
    mw.col.decks.name(mw.col.decks.selected()) + ".html"
), True)
  • Transform the last True in False (or just remove it) if you don’t want to keep non-ascii characters in file names.
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Hi, would you help me again with this? I had to install basic printing support again on another computer and I tried to do what you said, but I got this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/Users/gabrieldias/Library/Application Support/Anki2/addons21/1025789669/init.py”, line 37, in onPrint
QStandardPaths.writableLocation(QStandardPaths.DesktopLocation),
AttributeError: type object ‘QStandardPaths’ has no attribute ‘DesktopLocation’

Can you help me to fix this? Thanks! :smiley: