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Printing Barcodes from webapp?

Robin Becker robin at reportlab.com
Wed Dec 6 13:30:07 EST 2006 
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:19:58 GMT, Dennis Lee Bieber
> <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
> 
>> 	Aye, just the Postnet scheme... The difficult part was working out
>> the spacing for the dot-matrix printer; the rest was just using the
>> Zipcode digits as an index into byte-strings of MX-80 codes.
> 
> 	I've recently downloaded the 4-state spec from USPS... That thing is
> obscene... At least Postnet could be decoded visually with a simple
> chart. 4-state distributes bits all over!
well the code in reportlab/graphics/barcodes that deals with it should be 
adaptable if you're interested (only around 300 lines).

I have a feeling that the UK/AU 4state codes aren't as exotic, but not having 
actually implemented them it's hard to say.
-- 
Robin Becker
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