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

[Chris Nighswonger]

Hi David,

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:02 AM, David M. Bucknell
<dbucknell at iteachnet.org>wrote:

> If there is someone who would be willing to jury-rig patron card and
> spine label printing ... write a script ... I'd be willing to
> compensate hourly costs.
>
> I haven't heard from anyone except Chris, who is a contributing
> programmer, I take it, so I guess everyone else has either an on-site
> team or is paying a provider.  3.06 seems pretty cool and there is
> really no alternative, so if anyone is willing to help for some cash
> via paypal, it would be worth it to me.  I have three installations
> that need this, none of which have a budget, but all of them hell-bent
> on Koha because of me.
>
>
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.

It seems a bit counter productive to pay money for a feature that will die
in a couple of weeks anyway.

Kind Regards,
Chris



> ----- 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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