Barcode Layout

[Aaron Bingham]

Hello,

We are dealing with barcodes a lot and we want to be able specify the 
layout of a barcode label in a device-independant way and then output 
to, e.g., a wxWindow, a PostScript file or a special-purpose barcode 
printer.  We want to specify higher-level entities (e.g. barcode) in the 
layout directly.  Backends will either output corresponding high-level 
printer commands (barcode printer) or construct the entities from 
lower-level primitives (wxWindows, PostScript).

I've been looking at Piddle (http://piddle.sourceforge.net/) and it 
appears we could write a backend to support our barcode printer with 
extra methods for higher-level entities, but I'm reluctant committing to 
apparent abandonware. 

Does anyone have experience doing similar things with Piddle?  Are there 
any plans to maintain/enhance/replace Piddle?  Are there other packages 
I should look at?

Thanks,

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Aaron Bingham
Application Developer
Cenix BioScience GmbH
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