GNU Barcode

NETWORK LINKS ============= This is GNU-barcode. The latest release can be downloaded from ftp.gnu.org and mirrors: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/barcode/ It is also available from my own ftp/http server ftp://ar.linux.it/pub/barcode/ http://ar.linux.it/pub/barcode/ (same as above). The current source tree is available by anonymous CVS. See http://ar.linux.it/software/#cvs Plesae note that ar.linux.it/pub/barcode also includes CVS snapshots, semi-atumatically taken when I commit stuff to CVS. Note that CVS snapshots include "CVS/" directories, so you can then "cvs update" for further updates. The documentation is online at: http://ar.linux.it/software/barcode The MS-Windows port is maintained at: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/barcode.htm It as also been included in the FreeBSD ports tree in the "graphics" section. This means /usr/ports/graphics/barcode. It's thus available from: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/graphics.html GLabels, at http://snaught.com/glabels/, uses barcode internally, too. DESCRIPTION =========== The package is meant to solve most needs in barcode creation with a conventional printer. It can create printouts for the conventional product tagging standards: UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-13, EAN-8, ISBN, as well as a few other formats. Ouput is generated as either Postscript or Encapsulated Postscript (other back-ends may be added if needed). The package is released as both a library and a command-line frontend, so that you can include barcode-generation into your application. The program is released in the hope that is proves useful but without any warranty, according to the GPL Licence (see ./COPYING). If you're specifically interested in making an ISBN (Bookland EAN) symbol, you might try to get "bookland.py" by Judah Milgram (http://www.cgpp.com/bookland/, whose version 0.92 is also included in the directory "bookland" within this package, for your convenience). While my main target is flexibility his main target is strict adherence to the standards. Bookland is free software like the barcode library and will probabily have its role in the GNU project. Bookland.py is a self-documenting program, you'll enjoy browsing its source code. Other contributed patches and/or software are available in the contrib/ directory. Please take the "no-warranty" disclaimer seriously: even though I spent reasonable efforts to make sure the output is useable in production you should verify it suits your needs as a faulty bar can cost you a bundle, and you'll be on your own. It's up to you to verify that the symbol is valid (and, obviously, I'd like to know about any problem you encounter). [This paragraph copied verbatim from bookland.py] ACKNOWLEDGMENTS =============== I would like to thank both Judah Milgram and Michele Comitini (mcm@glisco.it) for their help with this tool, as well as Jim Westveer for introducing me to Debian packaging. Several encodings have been implemented by Leonid A. Broukhis (leob@mailcom.com). MAILING LISTS ============= There is a mailing list where development is coordinated, called barcode@lists.linux.it . To get subscribed you should echo subscribe | mail barcode-request@lists.linux.it or anything equivalent. To receive notification of CVS commit messages, please subscribe to barcode-commit@ar.linux.it, by issuing: echo subscribe | mail barcode-commit-request@ar.linux.it (if you guess, "ar" or "arcana" is my own server, while lists.linux.it is the mail server of the italian association of gnu/linux users). /alessandro ================================ Hello everyone, this is the OS/2 - ArcaOS port of GNU barcode, a simple software to create barcode strips to encode strings or alphanumerical codes. Did some quick try and it worked pretty well. I was searching for a QR code creation software but for now I can content myself with this. You'll find in the bin directory the OS/2 binary together with a help text screen dump. The software prints out a postscript file (or a PCL file if you specify it on the command line), so be sure to have Ghostview / Ghostscript on your system in order to use the resulting file. Hope you'll like this little piece of software I got from https://github.com/tineo/barcode-0.99