RE: Barcode printing

2013-09-30 Thread Joseph L. Casale
If that's a bit heavyweight (and confusing; it's not all free software, since some of it is under non-free license terms), there are other options. pyBarcode URL:http://pythonhosted.org/pyBarcode/ says it's a pure-Python library that takes a barcode type and the value, and generates an SVG of the

Barcode printing

2013-09-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I need to convert a proprietary MS Access based printing solution into something I can maintain. Seems there is plenty available for generating barcodes in Python, so for the persons who have been down this road I was hoping to get a pointer or two. I need to create some type of output,

Re: Barcode printing

2013-09-29 Thread Gary Herron
On 09/29/2013 02:54 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: I need to convert a proprietary MS Access based printing solution into something I can maintain. Seems there is plenty available for generating barcodes in Python, so for the persons who have been down this road I was hoping to get a pointer or

Re: Barcode printing

2013-09-29 Thread Ben Finney
Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com writes: I need to create some type of output, preferably pdf, which is an array of 2 across by 8 long of one custom barcode label with some other text components oriented around the barcode. The Reportlab library is a powerful PDF-creation library

Re: Barcode printing

2013-09-29 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au writes: Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com writes: I need to create some type of output, preferably pdf, which is an array of 2 across by 8 long of one custom barcode label with some other text components oriented around the barcode. The