On 25 August 2011 23:37, Philip Stubbs <philip@???> wrote:
> On 25 August 2011 16:51, Graeme Hilton <graeme.hilton@???>
> 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
