On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Joe Atzberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The label generator appears to have character-set limitations.  It may work
> fine for a given set of data and drop errors on another.  To me it looks
> like we haven't found a truly UTF-8 compatible perl module for generating
> PDFs.  I suspect such a thing may not yet exist.
>
> --Joe
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Mason James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
>>
>> On 2008/11/26, at 2:54 AM, Bernard Shiundu wrote:
>>
>> > Just noticed that the label generator seems broken … While it still
>> > does produce the barcode numbers with the guide boxes, It doesn't
>> > generate the actual barcodes anymore. A peek at the logs shows first
>> >
>> > >> stack underflow:tags stack is empty, referer: http://<myserver>/
>> > cgi-bin/koha/labels/label-manager.pl?op=add_batch&type=labels
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > >> label-print-pdf.pl: failed to parse label formatstring: io and
>> > barcode at /opt/koha/src/C4/Labels.pm line 862., referer: http://
>> > <myserver>/cgi-bin/koha/labels/label-manager.pl?
>> > op=add&batch_id=1&itemnumber=1&itemnumber=2&itemnumber=3
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Hiya Bernard,
>>
>> The good news is - this *does* work for me (on the latest stable build)
>>
>>
>> I suspect you have some config-settings (?missing values perhaps?)
>> that are causing it to barf (which is a legitimate bug)
>>
>> Open up a bug for this, and we can compare our settings and get it
>> working for you.
>>
>> Mason.
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I've been using PDF::API2 for a PDF generation module I'm working on; it's
not the best documented project in the world, but it does seem to support
UTF-8 in a more transparent way than PDF::Reuse:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/PDF-API2/Encoding

-- 
Jesse Weaver
Software Developer, LibLime
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