Printing Barcodes from webapp?

[Leo Kislov]

Burhan wrote:
> Hello Group:
>
>   I am in the planning stages of an application that will be accessed
> over the web, and one of the ideas is to print a barcode that is
> generated when the user creates a record.  The application is to track
> paperwork/items and uses barcodes to easily identify which paper/item
> belongs to which record.
>
>   Is there an easy way to generate barcodes using Python -- considering
> the application will be printing to a printer at the client's machine?
> I thought of two ways this could be done; one would be to interface
> with the printing options of the browser to ensure that margins,
> headers, footers are setup properly (I have done this before using
> activex and IE, but with mixed results); the other would be to install
> some small application at the client machine that would intercept the
> print jobs and format them properly (taking the printing function away
> from the browser).
>
>   Does anyone have any experience or advice? Any links I could read up
> on to help me find out how to program this?  Another way (easier
> hopefully) to accomplish this?

I think one of the easiest ways is to install acrobat reader and
redirect client browser to a generated pdf file.
http://www.reportlab.org/ has support for generating barcodes (and
more) in pdf documents.

  -- Leo