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
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Joe Atzberger wrote:
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>> The problem is not really with Koha, it is with the PDF format.
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> Very definitely so.
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>> In my opinion, development time might be better spent on piping the data
>> into an external known good UNICODE-capable print tool
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
The problem is not really with Koha, it is with the PDF format. I worked on
this a while back, and concluded it will not be possible to cleanly solve
without serious trade-offs:
- controlling more aspects of the process, like requiring specific fonts
on the user's system, or
- dramatic i
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 09:21:39PM -0400, Chris Nighswonger wrote:
> The UTF to PDF conversion issue appears to be primarily caused by the
> fact that the PDF stream uses glyphIDs rather than unicode to display
> strings. Thus there is not a direct, one-to-one unicode-gliphID
> relationship. The re
Hi Mason,
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Mason James
wrote:
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> so - i'm curious... is there a newer/better way to get around the
> less-than-perfect character-conversion issues with UTF to PDF, that were
> discussed on the lists in the last year or so (approx)
The UTF to PDF conversion issue
On 2009/09/29, at 12:23 PM, Chris Nighswonger wrote:
> Does someone have a few bibs they can shoot my way which contain lots
> of diacriticals and are unicode encoding? Maybe something in French or
> Spanish for starters. I'm working toward fixing the unicode problems
> with labels as a back-burn
Does someone have a few bibs they can shoot my way which contain lots
of diacriticals and are unicode encoding? Maybe something in French or
Spanish for starters. I'm working toward fixing the unicode problems
with labels as a back-burner project.
Kind Regards,
Chris
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