[Koha-devel] Barcode Printing Problems

[Stephen Hedges]

In my experience
(http://www.kohadocs.org/usersguide/ch01s04.html#d0e1240), the barcode
generator only really works with 11-digit barcodes.  Otherwise you get
leading and trailing garbage.

Stephen

Joshua Ferraro said:
> Hi all,
>
> Is anyone using barcode printing on a production system? I recently
> tried to get them working and although I can get it to produce
> barcodes there are two problems:
>
> 1. The file that's exported has an extension of .pl ... this means
> that most OSes can't determine that it's a PDF by default. What's
> the best way to export it as a useful filename and extension?
>
> 2. The barcodes that are generated have leading zeros and one zero
> after the barcode. So they're almost right, but in their current
> form aren't really useful (don't scan correctly).
>
> Anyone else experiencing the same problems? Any solutions out there?
>
> Cheers,
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