Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-12-06 Thread Steve Romanow
Charlie, Thank you for posting your PRINT.BARCODE.128.HP.SUB() routine. I need to make a change for my use and was wondering if you want the patch or if we have permission to modify. I would like to return the generated pcl back as a string instead of printing it in the sub. PLMK, Steve

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-12-06 Thread Charlie Noah
Hi Steve, It's been a long time since I've heard from you. How are you doing? I firmly believe in GPL. You can patch as you'd like, and share with anyone. Please leave the author credits in, and send me a copy of your mods. I will incorporate them into mine. Perhaps the change you want can

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-12-06 Thread Steve Romanow
On 12/6/2010 12:34 PM, Charlie Noah wrote: Hi Steve, It's been a long time since I've heard from you. How are you doing? I firmly believe in GPL. You can patch as you'd like, and share with anyone. Please leave the author credits in, and send me a copy of your mods. I will incorporate them

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font {Unclassified}

2010-05-23 Thread HENDERSON MIKE, MR
. To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font 'Cmon, are you seriously saying you don't have any old windows boxes lying around your organization? I can't speak for PrintWizard, but mvPDF will run happily on an old Win2000 box. [snip] Brian The information contained

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-05-20 Thread Brian Leach
So $199 for Windows 7 Pro, plus $100 for the $100 for the software. 'Cmon, are you seriously saying you don't have any old windows boxes lying around your organization? I can't speak for PrintWizard, but mvPDF will run happily on an old Win2000 box. Like PW it's written in Delphi, it is

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-05-20 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 4bf49b9a.5070...@comcast.net, Charlie Noah cwn...@comcast.net writes [Excuse me for a minute, my mouse cursor just took off by itself across the screen while I was typing, and I had to see how far it would go. It crawled slowly to the left of the screen and just sat there. Spooky!!!]

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-05-20 Thread Dan McGrath
] Code 128 Soft Font So $199 for Windows 7 Pro, plus $100 for the $100 for the software. 'Cmon, are you seriously saying you don't have any old windows boxes lying around your organization? I can't speak for PrintWizard, but mvPDF will run happily on an old Win2000 box. Like PW it's written

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-05-19 Thread Brian Leach
If you have to write a lot of PCL code then a product like print wizards seems a good investment, though. Put it this way - how much does your time cost your employer? If you roll your own it is going to take you a day to mess around with code, look up the printer escape sequences in manuals,

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-05-19 Thread Caminiti, Marc
:24 AM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font If you have to write a lot of PCL code then a product like print wizards seems a good investment, though. Put it this way - how much does your time cost your employer? If you roll your own it is going to take you a day to mess around

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-05-19 Thread Glen Batchelor
-Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bob Rasmussen Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 12:48 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font On Tue, 18 May 2010, Charlie

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-05-19 Thread Bob Rasmussen
On Wed, 19 May 2010, Glen Batchelor wrote: Do you have a server version for Linux yet? You refer to our Print Wizard product. No, we don't have a Linux version. Printer drivers on Linux are far less powerful than those on Windows. Regards, Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-05-19 Thread Charles_Shaffer
...@listserver.u2ug.org 05/19/2010 10:39 AM Please respond to U2 Users List To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org cc: Subject:Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font On Wed, 19 May 2010, Glen Batchelor wrote: Do you have a server version for Linux yet? You refer

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-05-19 Thread Glen Batchelor
] Code 128 Soft Font On Wed, 19 May 2010, Glen Batchelor wrote: Do you have a server version for Linux yet? You refer to our Print Wizard product. No, we don't have a Linux version. Printer drivers on Linux are far less powerful than those on Windows. Regards, Bob Rasmussen

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-05-19 Thread Bob Rasmussen
On Wed, 19 May 2010, charles_shaf...@ntn-bower.com wrote: You refer to our Print Wizard product. No, we don't have a Linux version. Any plans to develop a Unix version? All of our servers run on Unix. Some of our workstations too. The same issue exists on Unix, so no. It is quite easy

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-05-19 Thread Bob Rasmussen
On Wed, 19 May 2010, Glen Batchelor wrote: Just about everything gets converted to PostScript by CUPS and filters, so I don't follow you. My understanding is that CUPS deals with things at a job level, but not at a graphical element level. So for instance, if I have a TIF file I can feed

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-05-19 Thread Bill Haskett
Charlie: Why don't you post the code on the U2 wiki, if you can figure out how, or on Pickwiki. Bill Charlie Noah said the following on 5/18/2010 7:41 PM: Marc, If you are using a small Laserjet or a 9050, why spend

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-05-19 Thread Bill Haskett
I'll pipe in here, just to be fair. If you have pretty much any kind of printing to do, get PrintWizard. It is well worth the time and effort. We took a very difficult (i.e. many different ways to accomplish the same thing) task of converting reports to .pdf, and found the simplest, most

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-05-19 Thread Glen Batchelor
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 11:59 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font On Wed, 19 May 2010, Glen Batchelor wrote: Just about everything gets converted to PostScript by CUPS and filters, so I don't follow you. My understanding is that CUPS deals with things

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-05-19 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message pine.lnx.4.64ras.1005190850490.5...@nimbus.anzio.com, Bob Rasmussen r...@anzio.com writes On Wed, 19 May 2010, charles_shaf...@ntn-bower.com wrote: You refer to our Print Wizard product. No, we don't have a Linux version. Any plans to develop a Unix version? All of our servers

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-05-19 Thread Bob Rasmussen
On Wed, 19 May 2010, Anthony W. Youngman wrote: In message pine.lnx.4.64ras.1005190850490.5...@nimbus.anzio.com, Bob Rasmussen r...@anzio.com writes On Wed, 19 May 2010, charles_shaf...@ntn-bower.com wrote: ... It is quite easy to set up one or more Windows machines as print servers,

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-05-19 Thread Charlie Noah
Bill, Wow, it looks like I started a small war here. That wasn't my intent - well, maybe a little, just to keep the blood pumping. I am putting the source at the end of this email, as some people don't or can't receive attachments. It's not too long. If you, or anyone else, knows how, please

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-05-19 Thread Bill Haskett
Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font Print Wizard will run quite nicely on a $300 netbook. Velcro it to the wall. :-) Or set up a virtual Windows machine on your Linux machine. Seriously, though, I believe you're overestimating the costs while being largely unaware of the benefits

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-05-19 Thread Glen B
Bob, Let me also extend an offer to help with general development off-hours, if you're willing to work with GPL libs for open development. I'm sure Artifex will be happy to work out a commercial distribution deal for their Ghostscript offerings. I've dealt with the GS devs on many

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-05-18 Thread Jeff Powell
Marc, Tom Pellitieri who is active on this list has a routine that will print a barcode from Basic to a HP printer. Would that be helpful? Jeff On 05/18/2010 03:45 PM, Caminiti, Marc wrote: Quick, maybe not necessarily U2 related, question. We are looking to generate Code 128 Barcodes

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-05-18 Thread Brutzman, Bill
We bought the bar code modules (hardware cards) from HP. While these were not free, they have worked out rather well. --Bill -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Caminiti, Marc Sent: Tuesday, May 18,

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-05-18 Thread Glen Batchelor
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.pick/browse_thread/thread/2529 1158ebe10314/9036f6c8e439fb7f?lnk=gstq=code+128#9036f6c8e439fb7f Or do a search on google groups for code 128 in comp.databases.pick ; David Church posted a code128 PCL generator back in '97. I've not used it, but I

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-05-18 Thread Ken Hall
Check out Print Wizard from Rasmussen Software. It will give you a XML like markup language to use to specify forms printing and bar codes. http://www.anzio.com/ Ken At 01:45 PM 5/18/2010, you wrote: Quick, maybe not necessarily U2 related, question. We are looking to generate Code 128

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-05-18 Thread Glen Batchelor
-Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Glen Batchelor Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 6:28 PM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font http

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-05-18 Thread Tony Gravagno
Quick search on the archive shows results from an identical thread from just 3 months ago. Here was my response, the recommendation remains the same. http://listserver.u2ug.org/pipermail/u2-users/2010-February/00279 2.html ___ U2-Users mailing list

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-05-18 Thread Charlie Noah
Marc, If you are using a small Laserjet or a 9050, why spend extra money on hardware or software products which might tie you to a specific setup, when you can use a Basic subroutine to print your Code 128 barcode (or many other codes) anywhere on the page you want it? I've done the grunt

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-05-18 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Charlie Noah Sorry, Tony, I have the greatest respect you you, but printing barcode is just too easy to pay a lot for it. Not a problem, Charlie, and thanks. You're right that for any one job it often doesn't make sense to purchase a tool. When I make posts like this, my

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-05-18 Thread Bob Rasmussen
On Tue, 18 May 2010, Charlie Noah wrote: ... Sorry, Tony, I have the greatest respect you you, but printing barcode is just too easy to pay a lot for it. Who said anything about paying a lot? You can get started in Print Wizard for $99 or $300, depending on configuration. How much is your