Re: Barcodes

2009-08-24 Thread Chris Withers
barcodes on for asset tracking :-) http://the-gay-bar.com/index.php?/archives/221-Howto-generate-barcodes-in-Python-with-reportlab/ Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Batch Processing & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/py

Re: Barcodes

2009-08-19 Thread Ronn Ross
the bar codes. To read them, bar code >>> readers scan and translate before sending the values through >>> typically a keyboard wedge or serial port. >>> >> >> To add to what Emile mentions, most barcode readers present a >> keyboard-wedge interface, so tha

Re: Barcodes

2009-08-17 Thread Tim Chase
ode merely appears as if you typed it at the keyboard (USB readers show up as a HID profile). Often they'll have configuration barcodes that you can scan to tweak the profile (such as pressing , or an arrow-key after sending the barcode; controlling beep tone & volume, etc). For printin

Re: Barcodes

2009-08-17 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 8/17/2009 1:18 PM Ronn Ross said... My company needs a small inventory management app. Does python have any libraries to help with reading and writing bar codes? I've written bar code apps and python really doesn't enter into that part of things. Printers generally have bar code printing c

Barcodes

2009-08-17 Thread Ronn Ross
My company needs a small inventory management app. Does python have any libraries to help with reading and writing bar codes? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Printing Barcodes from webapp?

2006-12-06 Thread Robin Becker
the rest was just using the >> Zipcode digits as an index into byte-strings of MX-80 codes. > > I've recently downloaded the 4-state spec from USPS... That thing is > obscene... At least Postnet could be decoded visually with a simple > chart. 4-state distributes bits all

Re: Printing Barcodes from webapp?

2006-12-05 Thread John J. Lee
Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 04 Dec 2006 12:41:59 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John J. Lee) declaimed the > following in comp.lang.python: > > > digits, through complicated encodings (my colleague Robin tells me US > > postal bar codes were a particular pain), up to funny-looki

Re: Printing Barcodes from webapp?

2006-12-04 Thread John J. Lee
"Andy Dingley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Burhan wrote: > > > Is there an easy way to generate barcodes using Python > > Easy way for any application or language to generate barcodes is to > install a barcode font on the client machine, then just gen

Re: Printing Barcodes from webapp?

2006-12-02 Thread Burhan
Andy Dingley wrote: > Burhan wrote: > > > Is there an easy way to generate barcodes using Python > > Easy way for any application or language to generate barcodes is to > install a barcode font on the client machine, then just generate a > suitable text string for it.

Re: Printing Barcodes from webapp?

2006-12-02 Thread Andy Dingley
Burhan wrote: > Is there an easy way to generate barcodes using Python Easy way for any application or language to generate barcodes is to install a barcode font on the client machine, then just generate a suitable text string for it. This is _very_ easy, if you can get the font deployed.

Re: Printing Barcodes from webapp?

2006-12-02 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Burhan wrote: > Is there an easy way to generate barcodes using Python -- considering > the application will be printing to a printer at the client's machine? here are some barcode generators for Python: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/426069 http://w

Re: Printing Barcodes from webapp?

2006-12-02 Thread Leo Kislov
Burhan wrote: > Hello Group: > > I am in the planning stages of an application that will be accessed > over the web, and one of the ideas is to print a barcode that is > generated when the user creates a record. The application is to track > paperwork/items and uses barcodes

Printing Barcodes from webapp?

2006-12-01 Thread Burhan
Hello Group: I am in the planning stages of an application that will be accessed over the web, and one of the ideas is to print a barcode that is generated when the user creates a record. The application is to track paperwork/items and uses barcodes to easily identify which paper/item belongs

Re: Reportlab and Barcodes

2005-02-10 Thread Josh
Damjan, Code39 here refers to part of the Barcode Extensions available to Reportlabs. It can be imported as such from reportlab.extensions.barcode import code39 Josh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Reportlab and Barcodes

2005-02-10 Thread Jaime Wyant
That looks cleaner than mine. I had to do this -> # Register the barcode true-type-font # Don't want to push the font out to everyone in the office... from reportlab.pdfbase import pdfmetrics from reportlab.pdfbase.ttfonts import TTFont pdfmetrics.registerFont( TTFont( 'barcode', r'c:\inetpub\www

Re: Reportlab and Barcodes

2005-02-09 Thread Damjan
> One of the users on the Reportlabs mailing list was kinda enough to > offer me the solution.. A simple call to the drawOn function, e.g.: > > bc = code39.Standard39("123",xdim = .015*inch) whats code39 in this example? > x = 6*inch > y = -5*inch > bc.drawOn(canvas,x,y) -- damjan -- http://m

Re: Reportlab and Barcodes

2005-02-09 Thread Josh
One of the users on the Reportlabs mailing list was kinda enough to offer me the solution.. A simple call to the drawOn function, e.g.: bc = code39.Standard39("123",xdim = .015*inch) x = 6*inch y = -5*inch bc.drawOn(canvas,x,y) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Reportlab and Barcodes

2005-02-09 Thread Josh
Benji, I have used those very same fonts before and they work great, but I'm trying to get away with using straight Python to accomplish this, especially since the program will most likely be used on both Linux and Windows. Josh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Reportlab and Barcodes

2005-02-09 Thread Benji York
Josh wrote: I need someone to explain to me how to output a Code39 barcode to a Reportlab PDF. This may not help you directly, but I've made use of it in the past: a very nice and totally free 3 of 9 TrueType font. http://www.barcodesinc.com/free-barcode-font/ -- Benji -- http://mail.python.org/

Re: Reportlab and Barcodes

2005-02-09 Thread Neil Benn
Josh wrote: Hi All, I need someone to explain to me how to output a Code39 barcode to a Reportlab PDF. As far as I can tell, there is no means to do this with the Canvas object, and the demo that is included with the libraries is using the platypus Frame to place the barcode on the form. I do not w

Reportlab and Barcodes

2005-02-08 Thread Josh
Hi All, I need someone to explain to me how to output a Code39 barcode to a Reportlab PDF. As far as I can tell, there is no means to do this with the Canvas object, and the demo that is included with the libraries is using the platypus Frame to place the barcode on the form. I do not wish to use