[reportlab-users] pdf417 barcodes
Carl Karsten
carl at personnelware.com
Wed Dec 31 13:40:55 EST 2008
Dinu Gherman wrote:
> Carl Karsten:
>
>> Andy Robinson:
>>>
>>
>>> Also, we only have a one-dimensional barcode reader. From ReportLab's
>>> end, we'd be happy to implement this (and DataMatrix too) if a
>>> customer is willing to pay the time costs, which are probably a couple
>>> of man-weeks. Various enterprise customers have enquired in the past
>>> but nobody has committed. Let us know if your employers need this
>>> badly enough ;-)
>>
>> Well, my employer is PyCon - last year we got inquiries if the
>> attendee name tags could be scanned. scanner rental is around $300, I
>> will be surprised if we get 10 rentals. so even if we mark up the
>> rental 100%, that only gives us 3k to work with. Any interest in a
>> booth at PyCon?
>
> I've done something like that for EuroPython 2008, or let's
> say I offered doing it, but people said for about 200 people
> the scanning wouldn't make much sense, which is mostly true.
>
How were you going to implement it?
I am trying out https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdf417encode - I was able to
generate a .eps from the command line. I am hoping to get some python bindings
so that I don't have to mess with disk files.
> For PyCon US and the general fear level in the US that might
> be different. Here's a sample with the (not so meaningful)
> QR codes generated by an online service and added as bitmaps
> to the badges PDF file (in the end I made them much simpler):
>
> http://python.net/~gherman/tmp/badges.pdf
neat.
Can you post the code?
Carl K
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