[Koha-devel] Barcode Printing Problems

[Paul POULAIN]

Thomas D a écrit :
> There are at the very least potential Koha users who want to use barcode
> generation.  I have not experimented with actually using the barcode
> generation in Koha, myself.
> 
> 
> PREVIOUS DISCUSSION
> 
> There was a conversation between owen and tim on #koha on 5 August 2005
> about trying to use the barcode generator.  tim seemed to have misidentified
> the script being called to actually generate the barcodes in referring to
> them as code 39, or 3 of 9.  I followed his example later that night without
> looking at the code calling the correct script.  There is in fact an old
> script in /intranet/scripts/misc/barcodes.pl for generating much simpler
> code 39 barcodes.
> 
> 
> CODE INTERPRETATION
> 
> The script integrated into the Koha intranet is supposed to generate code
> 128 barcodes.  Vault Information Services. Code 128 symbology.
> barcodeisland.com . http://www.barcodeisland.com/code128.phtml  A useful
> page for understanding code 128.

the question being : why do we need to limit the generation to code128 ? 
imho, we should add a listbox to let the user choose one of the most 
common possibilities.

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Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)