Hi David,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:02 AM, David M. Bucknell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dbucknell@iteachnet.org">dbucknell@iteachnet.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><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<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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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>
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