Bug#326919: ITP: libpostscriptbarcode -- A barcode generator written entirely in PostScript
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Terry Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: libpostscriptbarcode Version : 20050808-1 Upstream Author : Terry Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.terryburton.co.uk/barcodewriter/ * License : MIT/X Description : A barcode generator written entirely in PostScript Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript facilitates the printing of all major barcode symbologies entirely within PostScript. Since this resource is written in PostScript and interpretted within the virtual machine of a printer it is compatible with virtually any operating system and hardware platform. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-2-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#326919: ITP: libpostscriptbarcode -- A barcode generator written entirely in PostScript
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 04:36:07PM +0100, Terry Burton wrote: Since this resource is written in PostScript and interpretted within the virtual machine of a printer it is compatible with virtually any operating system and hardware platform. Is this latter part of your long description relevant to and/or useful for the debian package? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. -!- signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#326919: ITP: libpostscriptbarcode -- A barcode generator written entirely in PostScript
[Terry Burton] Since this resource is written in PostScript and interpretted within the virtual machine of a printer it is compatible with virtually any operating system and hardware platform. [Stefano Zacchiroli] Is this latter part of your long description relevant to and/or useful for the debian package? We had this discussion already, see #316087. The short version: it *is* relevant that this is written in postscript and interpreted by a printer, because that's the whole point. It's a library to be embedded directly in your PostScript documents. Exactly what applications will use this, I guess, remains to be seen. Maybe some people enjoy creating bar codes from shell scripts; this file will make it fairly easy to do so, if you know PostScript. I agree that the description does not need to mention that it works on all sorts of non-Debian systems. Debian users won't care. Terry, instead of filing this bug, you should have retitled #316087 to ITP. Since you didn't, you should still retitle that bug, then merge it with this one. Peter signature.asc Description: Digital signature
