[TriLUG] Delivery Point Bar Code software

[Andrew Perrin]

You can use LaTeX, which will run on windows. The envlab package provides
the barcode function.

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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Brian Henning wrote:

> Hi y'all,
>    Does anyone have any experience with f/oss DPBC software?  $work
> wants to start putting the bar codes on our advertising flyers so we can
> qualify for automation rates with the post office...but I'm assuming
> $boss isn't going to want to spend $1200 on DPBC software.
>
> Running on Windows is a necessary evil in this case; our flyer printing
> is done in Publisher (which doesn't appear to have automatic DPBC,
> unlike Word, unfortunately).  Operating on data in Excel format is
> optimal, CSV is acceptable.  Running in Cygwin is also an acceptable
> solution if Windows-native code isn't available.
>
> Obviously if it requires buying something, then we'll either buy
> something or continue to pay the higher postal rate.  And of course I am
> googling this as well, but I thought I'd check to see if there were
> anyone who already knew of such a beast.
>
> Thanks greatly,
> ~Brian
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