How to customize the layout for a receipt printer? about receipts

[excid3]

Hey @HatemMahmoud!

Probably the best way of doing that would be to create like a ThermalReceipt class or something that redefines the methods for generating the receipt. You'll basically have to tweak the bounding boxes and things to get a smaller size and then the same for fonts and stuff.

It might be a good time to refactor all the code for the receipt so that all the margin values and things could be configurable in a hash early on instead of being hardcoded.

[Dragonicity]

The message on the header of the receipt can be overridden by simply including a message attribute when creating the new receipt in the Charge model:

def receipt
  Receipts::Receipt.new(
    id: id,
    message: "My custom message text",
...

[kudapara]

Probably the best way of doing that would be to create like a ThermalReceipt class or something that redefines the methods for generating the receipt. You'll basically have to tweak the bounding boxes and things to get a smaller size and then the same for fonts and stuff.

Does this also work when attempting to change the size of the print paper, e.g printing to A5?

[excid3]

Yep, changing the size of the paper larger or smaller would need the same tweaks.

If someone wants to make a PR for customizable sizes, that'd be awesome!