On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:24 PM, David M. Bucknell <dbucknell@iteachnet.org> wrote:

Hello Everyone,

Printing Spine label and patron cards: I started working on this in
May and 3.06 is
still the preferred stable version. I've seen two posts that say to
wait for 3.2.

3.2 includes a complete re-write of the label and card creator code. So waiting is probably the thing to do.

I've installed in various configurations (now have Thai lang with
marc-21; strange, but
it seems to work for input and searching).d

I can't get any of the label options to work (English lang mostly) for
books or patrons
(at least not more than minimally -- I can get a barcode graphically
and as text, but
that's it. (Oh, and a nice red box around the items. Nothing I do to
customize (choose
what's on the label) has any effect.

Label printing is pretty broken when it comes to unicode support. The short of it is that the pdf standard is not unicode friendly. This is true of 3.2 as well.

Having said that, we printed several thousand English (and a few Spanish) labels with the 3.0.x labels code. So it will work for English and probably some other Latin based alphabets.

Finally, I can't get the export to csv to work to try it.

I'm not sure what might be going on here.

Apologies for not seeing it if it's obvious, but now I would like to
ask for suggestions.
Am I wrong or is this just not working? How are people getting
their labels and patron
cards done in 3.06?