[Koha] Patron Cards and Book labels: 3.06 -- How are people printing them?

[David M. Bucknell]

Hi Chris,

Many thanks for this careful reply.

I can only get barcodes and numbers to print -- no titles.  As you  
say, it  is hard-coded.

In that it is hard-coded, I'm wondering what you or anyone else in  
real-working libraries, who have already upgraded to this version  
(3.06), are doing as work-arounds.  After all a sheet of bar codes  
without book titles or patron names (as the case may be) is not as  
useful as it could be.

I appreciate your help very much.

Sincerely,

David
----- Message from cnighswonger at foundations.edu ---------
     Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:27:26 -0400
     From: Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger at foundations.edu>
Reply-To: Chris Nighswonger <cnighswonger at foundations.edu>
  Subject: Re: [Koha] Patron Cards and Book labels: 3.06 -- How are  
people printing them?
       To: david at intknowledge.com
       Cc: koha <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>


> Hi David,
>
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:24 PM, David M. Bucknell <dbucknell at 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?
>>
>
> The patron card code in 3.0.x is basically inflexible as many of the
> settings are hard coded. You will have to wait for 3.2 stable or go ahead
> and grab 3.2 alpha2 or the latest development master from
> http://git.koha-community.org/koha.git
>
> Kind Regards,
> Chris
>


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