Merge pull request #2 from brendanhowell/brendanhowell-patch-1

soft_barcode to render directly

src/escpos/escpos.py

@@ -603,18 +603,15 @@ class Escpos(object):
                 )
             )
 
-        # Render the barcode to a fake file
+        # Render the barcode
         barcode_class = barcode.get_barcode_class(barcode_type)
         my_code = barcode_class(data, writer=image_writer)
-
+        my_code.render(
-        with open(os.devnull, "wb") as nullfile:
+            writer_options={
-            my_code.write(
-                nullfile,
-                {
                 "module_height": module_height,
                 "module_width": module_width,
                 "text_distance": text_distance,
-                },
+            }
         )
 
         # Retrieve the Pillow image and print it