Hi David, On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:02 AM, David M. Bucknell <dbuckn...@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 cnighswon...@foundations.edu --------- > Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:27:26 -0400 > From: Chris Nighswonger <cnighswon...@foundations.edu> > Reply-To: Chris Nighswonger <cnighswon...@foundations.edu> > Subject: Re: [Koha] Patron Cards and Book labels: 3.06 -- How are > people printing them? > To: da...@intknowledge.com > Cc: koha <k...@lists.katipo.co.nz> > > > > Hi David, > > > > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:24 PM, David M. Bucknell < > dbuckn...@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 > > > > > ----- End message from cnighswon...@foundations.edu ----- > > > > -- > *http://iteachnet.org > *http://flossed.org > *http://ischoolnet.org > *Web Ideas, Tools and Sites for Teachers, Schools, and You. > *Cell: +66(0*)84 329 1183; Office: +66(0*)2 980 9464 (*No "0" if calling > from > overseas.) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list > k...@lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha >
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