Re: [Kbarcode] Having trouble getting mailing labels to print

[Kourosh G. <kba...@mi...>]

Dominik,

Thank you _very_ much for this help.  I got everything printing
perfectly.  I really love the fact that printing can begin on any label
on the sheet as it lets me use partially printed sheets.  I always had
trouble with that on Windows software =(

The more I play with the software the more I like it.  Now I just have
to find some use for barcodes so I can print some =)

In regards to postal barcodes, there's a perl script I found to print
envelopes that does the postal barcodes as well.  I don't program so
don't know how it does it, but could there be a perl module for this
that can be linked into kbarcode?

The script is called envelope and is here
http://freefall.homeip.net/code/

Thanks again Dominik.

Kourosh

On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 21:37, Dominik Seichter wrote:
> Hi Kourosh,
> 
> Printing your mailing labels should be very easy. First you have to fill the 
> database. I assume you have already a working database connection.
> First add an imaginary customer to the database customer. Think of a 
> customer_no and a customer_name. It is not important for your printout, but 
> KBarcode needs at least one for proper printing.
> 
> Now the important part, open barcode_basic and add for each Address you want 
> to print one "Article". First add add an article_no for each article, e.g. 
> "address1" or "tom_test1". This article_no is used to identify this address 
> later. Now add the information you want to print to the fields field0-field9 
> (use as much fields you need). All other items in barcode_basic may stay 
> empty.
> 
> Example:
> article_no = "tom_test1"
> field0 = "Tom Test"
> field1 = "Test Street 1"
> field2 ="Tom's ZIP Code"
> field3 = "TomTown"
> 
> It's time to create the label now. Drawing the fixed return address is easy, 
> as you already that. But, instead of the delivery address, you add the place 
> holders Field 0 - Field 9 (how much you need of them). The inserted text will 
> look like [field0].
> 
> Now you can test the printout by clicking in the Label Editor on View -> 
> Preview. In the upcoming dialog you can enter the article_no ("tom_test1") 
> and select the customer you added at the beginning. Now you should get one 
> label previewed with all data correct.
> 
> To print a batch of labels switch to the batchprinting module. Select the 
> customer we just created and the label file you made. Now you have to added 
> the articles, i.e. addresses you want to print. If you want to print all 
> addresses once, go to Import -> Import barcode_basic. And you will get all 
> addresses added to the list below. Now a single click on "print" and you are 
> done.
> 
> If you want to print only a few addresses you can of course add them one by 
> one by hand.
> 
> That's all. I hope this helps :-).
> 
> > Also, I saw on the web site the US PostNet barcodes are supported
> > through the Tbarcode database.  Could these barcodes be handled by GNU
> > barcode or some other non-proprietary backend?
> I talked to the maintainer of GNU barcode, but postnet is not that easy to add 
> to GNU barcode right now, because it does not handle bars with different 
> heights but same width (like it is with postnet) yet. You might try to use a 
> Barcode font like this one: 
> http://www.adams1.com/pub/russadam/shareware/uspsbarcode.ttf
> 
> I do not know about its licencse, therefore it is not included in KBarcode, I 
> do also not know how much features of Postnet it supports, but it might be 
> worth a try. Just create a textfield in KBarcode with the number of the 
> barcode and format it using the postnet font.
> 
> CU Dom
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Kourosh Ghassemieh <kba...@mi...>