# puz

I got sick of scrounging the internet for badly formatted printable crosswords. So in a rage I set to writing my own parser for .puz files. I then used puppeteer to make a nice printable pdf version. It's a bit janky but it lets me print my morning crossword from the terminal. It was also quite fun reading puz file specs and figuring out how to parse that in node.

yarn install puz-cli

puz pdf crossword.puz -o myCrossword.pdf

Converts a puz file to a pdf

-o, --output Choose the output file path, defaults to the same as the input -d, --debugTemplate Output the html file that is given to puppeteer

puz print crossword.puz

Skip opening the pdf and go straight to print! (Brings up a dialogue for choosing the printer) Note: currently using a pretty limited package for printing that probably only works on unix computers and requires a pdf to be created before printing.

puz answer crossword.puz

Logs the crossword's solution to the console.

puz stats crossword.puz

Log out the puz file's metadata

--json Log as plain json