[TriLUG] back to barcodes

[Chris Knowles]

Sorry to dive in, I was reading this and browsing freshmeat at the same
time, so I thought I'd search on "barcode php" and voila, up came a hit.

Looks to do the 128-b you desire, whether it's *exactly what you want,
Dunno.

HTH,
CJK

http://www.mribti.com/barcode/home.php


On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 10:06, Greg Brown wrote:
> Bah!  Postscript?   I know NOTHING of postscript.
> 
> Anyway, here are some examples of the output I have to create:
> 
> http://tbcorp.homeip.net/brown.net/greg/barcode/
> 
> The pictures are pretty crappy, but you can see the general layout.  I 
> was playing around with some barcode stuff on-line and it appears that 
> I'm going to have to use Code-128b, whatever that is.
> 
> Anyway, basically the barcode reads the same as the case number which 
> is the big colorful number to the left of the actual barcode.  Each 
> number in the numeric code has a color that represents that same number 
> (or letter).  Thankfully the codes area fixed lenght... the other 
> information (patient name, drug name, etc) are all extracted from the 
> massive oracle database and is keyed off that same code.
> 
> The database part is a snap.  This postscript madness is not, at least 
> for me.
> 
> My google search is on for postscript how-tos.  If anyone knows of a 
> good book, or just wants to teach me how to do this in exchange for 
> karma or money.. well, name your price.  I have to produce this exact 
> output, though and there should be seven stickers per page.  Oh, and I 
> have to produce this output via a script,  all done from a PHP 
> front-end website.  I can use PERL to generate the barcodes, or do 
> whatever, but in the end I need to show the user on the screen via the 
> webpage how everything is going to look when it's printed out.  Heck, I 
> could use PHP to generate the images if that's possible, but I don't 
> think it is.
> 
> Any takers?
> 
> Greg
> 
> On Wednesday, Jul 7, 2004, at 23:44 US/Eastern, Brent Verner wrote:
> 
> >
> > If all you have to do is print the barcode, this will help.
> >   http://www.gnu.org/software/barcode/
> > If you have to layout the color blocks and other stuff for
> > printing, enjoy Postscript!!!  Wait, you might be better
> > off using Perl GD::Barcode::* to create the desired image
> > then convert that image to Postscript with pngtopnm | pnmtops.
-- 
Chris Knowles <chrisk at trilug.org>
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