[KLUG Members] barcode

[Dirk H Bartley]

Greetings

I have successfully printed using the barcode program a table of
barcodes as desired in a perl script using the system function to
execute barcode.  Now I want to add text to the page.  What I am looking
for is a way to make text appear on a page similar to the way you can
print text to the screen in a program, by designating the position for
the text to print.

So how do I create a postscript document.  I imagine I would need a perl
module, (or any other language) where I could do something like:

BEGIN POSTSCRIPT

PRINT x=55, y=135, text="ABC" font="helvetica" fontsize="14"
..
..
..
..
..

END POSTSCRIPT

Can I do this kind of thing with ghostscript or any other type of
library or software.

I'm planning on getting the text postscript page on the same page as the
barcodes.  I'm not evan sure if I can get enscript to get 2 postscript
pages on the same page.  There has to be some relatively simple way to
do this.  I'm banging my head at this point.

It seems I should be able to do with a postscript printer what I can do
with a barcode printer!!

Dirk