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zipped xml!
Lots or file formats are just zipped XML.
I was ~~reverse engineering~~ fucking around with the LBX file format for our Brother label printer's software at work, because I wanted to generate labels programmatically, and they're zipped XML too. Terrible format, LBX, really annoying to work with. The parser in Brother P-Touch Editor is really picky too. A string is 1 character longer or shorter than the length you defined in an attribute earlier in the XML? "I've never seen this file format in my life," says P-Touch Editor.
Do you have to define a length range?
The precise length, not a range.
But I misremembered a bit, you actually define it after the text. Here's a screenshot of a single text element: https://clips.clb92.xyz/2024-09-08_22-27-04_gfxTWDQt13RMnTIS.png