Barcode journy

So, you wanted to print your own barcodes? So did I and this page is collection of notes about it.

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Printing barcodes

wget http://postscriptbarcode.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/barcode_with_sample.ps

dpavlin@t61p:~/klin/evolis-dualys-3$ echo | gs -sDEVICE=png256 -sOutputFile=barcode-%d.png -r300,300 barcode_with_sample.ps > log ; qiv barcode-*.png

Reading barcodes

ZBar, project which used to be called zebra on sourceforce, but isn't any more

# dependencies
sudo apt-get install libmagickwand-dev

# checkout source
cd /rest/cvs
hg clone http://zbar.hg.sourceforge.net:8000/hgroot/zbar
cd zbar
autoreconf --install

# compile
./configure --without-python
make

Testing

dpavlin@t61p:/rest/cvs/zbar$ ./zbarimg/zbarimg ~/klin/evolis-dualys-3/test1.png 
CODE-128:010501234567890015011106
CODE-39:CODE 39R
EAN-13:9781860742712
EAN-13:0788581014974
EAN-13:9771473968012
EAN-13:0042100005264
I2/5:001234567895
EAN-8:01335583
scanned 8 barcode symbols from 1 images in 0.34 seconds

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