[reportlab-users] pdf417 barcodes

[Carl Karsten]

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