[TriLUG] still in search of a postscript expert

[David Rasch]

You're going to do best to use a typsetting tool to do the remainder of
this layout.  I will tell you that LaTeX can do this, but I will
hesitate to "recommend" it as it's really a PITA.  

David


On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 05:02:26PM -0400, Greg Brown <gregbrown at mindspring.com> wrote:
> I've got the barcodes working, now I just have to get the postscript 
> output to match the following example:
> 
> http://tbcorp.homeip.net/brown.net/greg/barcode/
> 
> Each letter and number corresponds to a different color.  The entire 
> thing needs to be scripted.  I have all
> the back-end stuff figured out, now I just need to figure out the 
> postscript side of things.
> 
> So, all that said are there any postscript experts willing to teach me? 
>  I will pay $$.  The only caveat is the
> output needs to look just like this, not a little, not some, but 
> exactly.  The barcode is a PNG image and the
> other printed text located close to the barcode is queried out of a 
> database.  The order of the characters
> is determined by the case number (which is the color coded number).  I 
> have the original sheet of test
> labels which may make things more clear - there are seven labels per 
> page all printed from a standard
> postscript color laser printer.
> 
> Any takers?  I need to figure this aspect of the project out so any 
> interested parties please name your
> price.
> 
> Greg
> 
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