Burhan wrote: > Hello Group: > > I am in the planning stages of an application that will be accessed > over the web, and one of the ideas is to print a barcode that is > generated when the user creates a record. The application is to track > paperwork/items and uses barcodes to easily identify which paper/item > belongs to which record. > > Is there an easy way to generate barcodes using Python -- considering > the application will be printing to a printer at the client's machine? > I thought of two ways this could be done; one would be to interface > with the printing options of the browser to ensure that margins, > headers, footers are setup properly (I have done this before using > activex and IE, but with mixed results); the other would be to install > some small application at the client machine that would intercept the > print jobs and format them properly (taking the printing function away > from the browser). > > Does anyone have any experience or advice? Any links I could read up > on to help me find out how to program this? Another way (easier > hopefully) to accomplish this?
I think one of the easiest ways is to install acrobat reader and redirect client browser to a generated pdf file. http://www.reportlab.org/ has support for generating barcodes (and more) in pdf documents. -- Leo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
