Use of barcode component in text mark

[T_Winkler · Accepted solution]

Thanks a lot for that work, that will help us to get a much more better understanding how scripts can support us in problems. 

In our case the solution for the machine users was to print out the numbers of the code below the barcode. The quantity of types make it possible to "read" the numbers.

[StefanT-Xerox]

You can use a script for this. Please see attached. It will print the job name, sheet number/number of sheets, front/back and timestamp. To decide what to print and how and where to print information on a page you can edit these lines in the Python script:

can.rotate(90)
can.setFont("Helvetica", 7)
can.drawString(350, -20, sys.argv[4] + " Sheet " + str(i) + " / " + str(numberofsheets) + " " + side + " " + timestampStr)

This requires Python that you will need to install together with PyPDF2 and reportlab. To run it, create an External Process in a FFCore workflow and point to the batch file. Please see paths to both python.exe and the path to the Python script in the batch file. Those paths may need to be changed. Parameters used:

 "$FFin$" "$FFout$" "$FFwfJob.sidesImaged$" "$FFwfJob.jobName$"

/Stefan

[DavidU54339-XRX]

These variables are internal to the Barcode node. There are not present/useable in nodes such Watermark.

[T_Winkler]

We succeded with building up the barcode for our sewing machine. 

But the operators wants the numbers in an explaining text as the following: 

Sheet 1 / 4 Signature 2 / 3 

The variables are correct in the barcode. 
Named <Blattnummer> and <Blattanzahl im Auftrag>
What are the text variables for these entries? I did not find them in the Help file which is much improved in the last versions, thanks for that at this point.