Printing Barcodes from webapp?

Burhan burhan.khalid at gmail.com
Sat Dec 2 08:28:04 EST 2006


Andy Dingley wrote:
> Burhan wrote:
>
> >   Is there an easy way to generate barcodes using Python
>
> Easy way for any application or language to generate barcodes is to
> install a barcode font on the client machine, then just generate a
> suitable text string for it. This is _very_ easy, if you can get the
> font deployed.  I usually find myself using Code 39 and printing them
> from a HTML document. There are plenty of free code 39 fonts around and
> the string mangling to get the barcode structured correctly is just a
> trivial prefix / suffix.

I thought about this as an option too, but I do not have control over
the client machines, maybe I'll use this and go with the PDF idea
mentioned above.

Thanks for all the links, I have some reading to do now.




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