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You have created
CRM_Event_Badge_NameTitleOrg4x3.php
but the error says that it's searching for
CRM/Event/Badge/NameTitleOrg4x3.php


Rename the file and it should be fine.

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Hi,

Do trust the error message (that has expired on pastebin btw) when it says that the file isn't there, that's the case:

Either that's not
NameTitleOrg4x3.php

or not in the right folder or that apache user doesn't have read access...

My strategy is usually to bang my head on the wall for a while, open a bottle of wine, drink a glass, then explain the problem to my cat, and then realise that the dash was a semi comma, or whatever stupid reason these stubborn computers refuse to do what they should

Good luck!

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I banged my head on my machine rather than wall & got it. :-)

That's not my strategy: you quick on the machine with the foot, not the head (mostly backpain reason, I think). But if it works for you...

One more thing I made a barcode module for drupal here http://code.google.com/p/regbar & like to integrate this into civicrm with the "Name Badge" thing, means I don't have much coding experience with civicrm except I customized the process of event generation [As you save any tab while event creation you jump onto next tab with saving everything to db as usual. for e.g save "location" class & then you jump onto next tab "fees", no requirement of clicking on each tab.]

There is a barcode generation in the pdf library we use. it shouldn't be complicated to generate it while you are printing the other items on the badge. (and that's as far as I looked at it: I know it exists)

Let us know if you have found out the way of integrating the code bar, that's been requested previously.

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I have put 1Dbarcode in the name badge [ Logo.php default file] that a user can print out, right now this barcode follows "C128A" standard but can be converted into any standard barcode format by changing barcode standard name for e.g. in the below file.

$this->pdf->write1DBarcode( $participant['first_name']. " ".$participant['middle_name']. " ".$participant['last_name'], 'C128A', '', '', '', 10, 0.2, $style, 'N')

and currently barcode contains participant's first, middle & last name [so it is easier to search for any participant].
 I have attached the file, replacing it with default logo.php ( civicrm/CRM/Event/Badge/logo.php ) file would work [Don't forget to change the extension to 'php'.]
Hope it helps :-)

Yes I used to search people by their name not by their id, any non-technical won't give much to id thing, their display name can be searched by civicrm search & then from that search result status can be changed by exposed filter given above, I think. I tried this & was successful.
I have put first name-middle name-last name in the barcode.
All I have to do was to call tcpdf 1Dbarcode method & passing arguments in it and do some styling to adjust it to the place.
It can be generalized more by making admin interface in civicrm to use different standards & using any template easily the same as this drupal barcode module does http://code.google.com/p/regbar
I would have done this too but not much familiar with civicrm apis, if you [@xavier] can help, I would do!