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<DIV>Mike, </DIV>
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<DIV>I tried to respond off-list but keep getting </DIV>
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<DIV>I believe we are just using a standard 29mm thermal label.</DIV>
<DIV>This printer is a thermal printer, so there is no ink to rub/smear etc.<BR></DIV>
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<DIV>We just use standard labels sizes and trim appropriately. Then put a piece of clear book-tape over top of that.</DIV>
<DIV>We also book-tape cover the barcode.</DIV>
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<DIV>Takes a little more time, but, holds up to wear and tear of k-12 students.<BR><BR><FONT color=#1f497d size=3 face=Calibri><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>Scott Owen<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> 23 August 2010 14:14<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> koha@lists.katipo.co.nz<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Koha] Seeking programmer: Patron Cards and Book labels: 3.06-- How are people printing them?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Just installed Koha from git, and the patron card/spine labels seem to work fine.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">However....<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">While using Koha 2.2.9 on win32 I was not happy with the standard barcode generated by Koha (when I <BR>could get them to work) so I used the following software and process to <BR>generate my own.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><BR>Option 1 ********************************<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">This requires allowing access to the MySQL database that holds all of your Koha information.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">*BE CAREFUL AND MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND THE RAMIFICATIONS OF DOING THIS*<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Barcodes are just a font. <BR>Free barcode 39 font <A href="http://www.squaregear.net/fonts/free3of9.shtml">http://www.squaregear.net/fonts/free3of9.shtml</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Free (for non-profit and edu) label making/design software <BR><A href="http://www.idautomation.com/labelsoftware/free/">http://www.idautomation.com/labelsoftware/free/</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0cm; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MySQLAdmin and GUI tools from <BR><A href="http://library.pantek.com/Applications/MySQL/Downloads/MySQLGUITools/mysql-gui-tools-5.0-r12-win32.msi">http://library.pantek.com/Applications/MySQL/Downloads/MySQLGUITools/mysql-gui-tools-5.0-r12-win32.msi</A> <BR><BR><BR>Install MySQLGUITools.<BR>Use a multi-table MySQL query to pull the data from both the biblio and <BR>items tables into a single “output” table, then export to CSV.<BR><BR>the SQL query :<BR>SELECT biblio.biblionumber, biblio.title, items.barcode, <BR>items.itemcallnumber FROM biblio, items WHERE biblio.biblionumber = <BR>items.biblionumber;<BR><BR>Will produce (in my case) a CSV like<BR>biblionumber title barcode itemcallnumber<BR>1 Novell's ZENworks administrator's handbook / 1 <BR>2 The New York Public Library desk reference. 30525 031 new<BR>3 Picture perfect / 36003 FIC PIC<BR>6 Just listen : 30431 FIC DES<BR>5 The lovely bones : 30319 FIC SEB<BR>8 Unexplained / 109541 001.94 ALL<BR>9 Whatever happened to Janie? / 109542 <BR>10 The bad beginning / 50000 F SNI<BR>11 The field guide / 50003 F DIT<BR>12 The clique : 109528 F HAR<BR><BR><BR>As you get into larger and larger biblionumbers you may want to add a > <BR>to the query:<BR><BR>SELECT biblio.biblionumber, biblio.title, items.barcode, <BR>items.itemcallnumber FROM biblio, items WHERE biblio.biblionumber>4 = <BR>items.biblionumber;<BR>The >4 causes the query to only show rows where the biblionumber is <BR>(greater than)> 4<BR><BR>Install the barcode font, and the label making software. You can then <BR>design your labels, input data from the CSV, and produce your own custom <BR>labels with almost any information you desire.<BR>I include the barcode, title, call number, and school name on all of my <BR>labels.<BR><BR>If you can obtain one, the Brother QL-500 is a wonderful label printer <BR>that also includes label design software that will allow you to print <BR>barcodes.<BR><BR>This process is not as easy as just pressing the button in Koha, but, I <BR>have found it to work quite in my environment.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Option 2:******************************<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Create a "remote query" in PHP so that you can automagically generate a barcode ready list.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The cut/paste/format into a CSV, and print as above in option 1. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">example:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><A href="http://koha.almaschools.net/RQ/booklist.php">http://koha.almaschools.net/RQ/booklist.php</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">This requires a bit more work....but is very handy.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">If you want the messy details, let me know off list......<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">-Scott Owen<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Alma Public Schools<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0cm; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><BR><BR>>>> Chris Nighswonger<cnighswonger@foundations.edu> 8/23/2010 7:53 AM >>><BR>Hi David,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:02 AM, David M. Bucknell <<A href="mailto:dbucknell@iteachnet.org">dbucknell@iteachnet.org</A>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0cm; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">If there is someone who would be willing to jury-rig patron card and<BR>spine label printing ... write a script ... I'd be willing to<BR>compensate hourly costs.<BR><BR>I haven't heard from anyone except Chris, who is a contributing<BR>programmer, I take it, so I guess everyone else has either an on-site<BR>team or is paying a provider. 3.06 seems pretty cool and there is<BR>really no alternative, so if anyone is willing to help for some cash<BR>via paypal, it would be worth it to me. I have three installations<BR>that need this, none of which have a budget, but all of them hell-bent<BR>on Koha because of me.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0cm; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><BR>Why don't you just upgrade to the current beta of Koha 3.2? There are several libraries, including ours, that have been running over this code for months now.<BR><BR>It seems a bit counter productive to pay money for a feature that will die in a couple of weeks anyway.<BR><BR>Kind Regards,<BR>Chris<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">----- Message from <A href="mailto:cnighswonger@foundations.edu">cnighswonger@foundations.edu</A> ---------<BR>Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:27:26 -0400<BR>From: Chris Nighswonger <<A href="mailto:cnighswonger@foundations.edu">cnighswonger@foundations.edu</A>><BR>Reply-To: Chris Nighswonger <<A href="mailto:cnighswonger@foundations.edu">cnighswonger@foundations.edu</A>><BR>Subject: Re: [Koha] Patron Cards and Book labels: 3.06 -- How are<BR>people printing them?<BR>To: <A href="mailto:david@intknowledge.com">david@intknowledge.com</A><BR>Cc: koha <<A href="mailto:koha@lists.katipo.co.nz">koha@lists.katipo.co.nz</A>><BR><BR><BR>> Hi David,<BR>><BR>> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:24 PM, David M. Bucknell <<A href="mailto:dbucknell@iteachnet.org">dbucknell@iteachnet.org</A><BR>>> wrote:<BR>><BR>>> Hello Everyone,<BR>>><BR>>> Printing Spine label and patron cards: I started working on this in<BR>>> May and 3.06 is<BR>>> still the preferred stable version. I've seen two posts that say to<BR>>> wait for 3.2.<BR>>><BR>>><BR>> 3.2 includes a complete re-write of the label and card creator code. So<BR>> waiting is probably the thing to do.<BR>><BR>><BR>>> I've installed in various configurations (now have Thai lang with<BR>>> marc-21; strange, but<BR>>> it seems to work for input and searching).d<BR>>><BR>>> I can't get any of the label options to work (English lang mostly) for<BR>>> books or patrons<BR>>> (at least not more than minimally -- I can get a barcode graphically<BR>>> and as text, but<BR>>> that's it. (Oh, and a nice red box around the items. Nothing I do to<BR>>> customize (choose<BR>>> what's on the label) has any effect.<BR>>><BR>>><BR>> Label printing is pretty broken when it comes to unicode support. The short<BR>> of it is that the pdf standard is not unicode friendly. This is true of 3.2<BR>> as well.<BR>><BR>> Having said that, we printed several thousand English (and a few Spanish)<BR>> labels with the 3.0.x labels code. So it will work for English and probably<BR>> some other Latin based alphabets.<BR>><BR>><BR>>> Finally, I can't get the export to csv to work to try it.<BR>>><BR>><BR>> I'm not sure what might be going on here.<BR>><BR>><BR>>><BR>>> Apologies for not seeing it if it's obvious, but now I would like to<BR>>> ask for suggestions.<BR>>> Am I wrong or is this just not working? How are people getting<BR>>> their labels and patron<BR>>> cards done in 3.06?<BR>>><BR>><BR>> The patron card code in 3.0.x is basically inflexible as many of the<BR>> settings are hard coded. You will have to wait for 3.2 stable or go ahead<BR>> and grab 3.2 alpha2 or the latest development master from<BR>> <A href="http://git.koha-community.org/koha.git" target=_blank>http://git.koha-community.org/koha.git</A><BR>><BR>> Kind Regards,<BR>> Chris<BR>><BR><BR><BR>----- End message from <A href="mailto:cnighswonger@foundations.edu">cnighswonger@foundations.edu</A> -----<BR><BR><BR><BR>--<BR>*<A href="http://iteachnet.org" target=_blank>http://iteachnet.org</A><BR>*<A href="http://flossed.org" target=_blank>http://flossed.org</A><BR>*<A href="http://ischoolnet.org" target=_blank>http://ischoolnet.org</A><BR>*Web Ideas, Tools and Sites for Teachers, Schools, and You.<BR>*Cell: +66(0*)84 329 1183; Office: +66(0*)2 980 9464 (*No "0" if calling from<BR>overseas.)<BR><BR>----------------------------------------------------------------<BR>This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Koha mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz">Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz</A><BR><A href="http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha" target=_blank>http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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