Bug #40610 for PostScript-MailLabels:

Sun Nov 02 17:29:44 2008 bdfoy [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Hey Alan, I just started using a Dymo label printer and now I want Dymo label definitions in PostScript::MailLabels. I'll do the work, but I want to see if you like the direction before I spend the time: Right now I just hacked it with the right settings in labelsetup(), but I thought about adding a $self->{DYMO} in BasicData.pm along with a dymocode() and dymodata() in MailLabels.pm. I think the data structure would look like the one for Avery. That's not a big deal. The ugly part is expanding the paper data. Every label type is a different paper type. Do you want to just add them all to the rest of the paper data.

Sun Nov 02 18:07:57 2008 alanj [...] ajackson.org - Correspondence added

Subject:

dymo labels

On Sun Nov 02 17:29:44 2008, BDFOY wrote: Show quoted text

> Hey Alan, > > I just started using a Dymo label printer and now I want Dymo label > definitions in > PostScript::MailLabels. I'll do the work, but I want to see if you > like the direction before I spend > the time: > > Right now I just hacked it with the right settings in labelsetup(), > but I thought about adding a > $self->{DYMO} in BasicData.pm along with a dymocode() and dymodata() > in MailLabels.pm. > I think the data structure would look like the one for Avery. That's > not a big deal. >

I like the idea of a separate dymo structure - that seems cleaner than not doing it. Show quoted text

> The ugly part is expanding the paper data. Every label type is a > different paper type. Do you > want to just add them all to the rest of the paper data.

But with every label a new paper... since it probably doesn't make sense to use one of the new papers without using the corresponding label (if I understand correctly), then perhaps the code should reflect that dependency? That is a little hokey and would mean a special path through the code maybe?, but it might be nicer for the user. What do you think? I did recently add a user-defined paper size hack - it wasn't as pretty as I would have liked, but it is there. Or maybe it would be better to just add all the papers, probably with a prefix like dymo-... Actually if the code were altered so that if papersize is not a string but is list, then interpret it as paper of that size,then the dymo papers could just be imbedded in the label description directly without defining a new paper. In fact, that would have been a better way to implement user-defined papers... That's my stream-of-consciousness so far... thoughts? - Alan

Sun Nov 02 18:07:59 2008 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Fri Nov 07 04:15:43 2008 bdfoy [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Subject:

Dymo label data patch

Hi Alan, I added Dymo label data to the module. It's not exactly pretty, but I wanted to change as little as possible. I added a parallel DYMO data section, and defined a bunch of new papers. I also added a couple of examples to the docs. We may need to adjust the printable boxes for the labels. I pulled that data directly from the Dymo PPDs in their SDK (script in patch), but I only checked the label type I have (30252). Everything still seems to work though :)

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Fri Nov 07 11:06:44 2008 alanj [...] ajackson.org - Correspondence added

On Fri Nov 07 04:15:43 2008, BDFOY wrote: Show quoted text

> Hi Alan, > > I added Dymo label data to the module. It's not exactly pretty, but I > wanted to change as little as > possible. I added a parallel DYMO data section, and defined a bunch of > new papers. I also > added a couple of examples to the docs. > > We may need to adjust the printable boxes for the labels. I pulled > that data directly from the > Dymo PPDs in their SDK (script in patch), but I only checked the label > type I have (30252). > > Everything still seems to work though :)

I think you win the prize for largest patch ever submitted for this guy. Thanks! I'll look over it this weekend. - Alan

Wed Nov 19 21:13:46 2008 alanj [...] ajackson.org - Correspondence added

On Fri Nov 07 11:06:44 2008, AJACKSON wrote: Show quoted text

> On Fri Nov 07 04:15:43 2008, BDFOY wrote:

> > Hi Alan, > > > > I added Dymo label data to the module. It's not exactly pretty, but I > > wanted to change as little as > > possible. I added a parallel DYMO data section, and defined a bunch of > > new papers. I also > > added a couple of examples to the docs. > > > > We may need to adjust the printable boxes for the labels. I pulled > > that data directly from the > > Dymo PPDs in their SDK (script in patch), but I only checked the label > > type I have (30252). > > > > Everything still seems to work though :)

> > I think you win the prize for largest patch ever submitted for this guy. > > Thanks! I'll look over it this weekend. > > - Alan

Applied and uploaded

Wed Nov 19 21:13:49 2008 alanj [...] ajackson.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'