Re: [Koha-devel] Dear Developers... want help and how?

2009-09-29 Thread Nicole Engard
David, Others may have some good ideas, but if you can test at home, you can install VirtualBox and then Debian on that and then Koha on that :) That's what I did on my personal computer so that I can test, develop and document Koha. As for me personally, I'm always up for help with documentation

Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] Extended Patron attributes

2009-09-29 Thread David Schuster
You can load multiple attributes at one time: "period04:04470624114,grade:07" First attribute being loaded is period04 which loads 04470624114 Second attribute is grade: which loads 07 The header is just: "patron_attributes" Hope that helps - we have decided to load the patron attributes, but

Re: [Koha-devel] Diacriticals, Unicode, and PDF's

2009-09-29 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Joe Atzberger wrote: > Actually, the "other app" wouldn't have to produce PDFs at all, since those > are just a midpoint to printing actual barcode labels. For example, if we > import CSV data into an Open Office spreadsheet, then it's just a question > of page

[Koha-devel] Dear Developers... want help and how?

2009-09-29 Thread David Schuster
I am more than willing to attempt to help in "testing" preparing for the next release. I just need some direction as to what I can do. I am unable to install an update locally - but am more than willing to test and do things on someone else' box. What can I do David Schuster -- View this

Re: [Koha-devel] Diacriticals, Unicode, and PDF's

2009-09-29 Thread Joe Atzberger
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Joe Atzberger wrote: > >> The problem is not really with Koha, it is with the PDF format. > > > Very definitely so. > > > > >> In my opinion, development time might be better spent on piping the data >> into an external known good UNICODE-capable print tool

Re: [Koha-devel] Diacriticals, Unicode, and PDF's

2009-09-29 Thread Chris Nighswonger
Hi Joe, On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Joe Atzberger wrote: > The problem is not really with Koha, it is with the PDF format. Very definitely so. > I worked on this a while back, and concluded it will not be possible to > cleanly solve without serious trade-offs: > >- controlling mo