On 25 August 2011 23:37, Philip Stubbs <phi...@stuphi.co.uk> wrote: > On 25 August 2011 16:51, Graeme Hilton <graeme.hil...@fishter.org.uk> > wrote: > > Hi, > > I was wondering if the Badge Generator [1] on the hantslug website was > GPL > > licensed? If so, could I have a copy of the source code? I'm looking > at > > generating sheets of name badges for volunteer staff at various events > and > > the Badge Generator seems like it's solving my problem. > > Thanks for any responses. > > > > [1] http://www.hantslug.org.uk/wiki/BadgeGenerator > > The Badge Generator was written by Hugo Mills. As I understand it, it > relies on some low level postscript to do its magic. From memory, this > has been asked before and the response was along the lines of you > would probably be better starting from scratch unless you are already > a wizz with postscript. > > If you don't want to get into the murky depths of postscript, then you > could do something similar in bitmap with imagemagic and some bash. > http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/
Thanks Phil, I was trying avoid reinventing the wheel. Looks like it's a little bit of coding for me, then! PS I lurk a lot and usually pick up useful tips from here, so keep up the good work ;-) -- Graeme Hilton
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