Steve Fosdick wrote:
Has anyone had occasion to use the "Print Postage" service from Royal Mail? Does it reply on installing any proprietry software on your PC (including Adobe Flash) or is it usable from a normal web browser?
It creates a PDF which you print. It should work OK on Linux and I think I may have used it from my Ubuntu desktop, but I'm not 100% sure.
The "stamps" include a 2D barcode which is scanned in the sorting system so they use that to prevent re-use rather than "clever" DRM techniques. The PDF has a non-printing watermark across it and is read-only so a capable viewer is needed but I'm *fairly* sure I've done all this with Linux [*]
[*] I rarely print postage as a colleague (who uses Windows) tends to do it. When I do it it's usually because he's away and I'm checking his email, so I usually do it from his desktop rather than mine. But I'm about 70% sure I have done it on occasion from my own PC.