#NOTICE
This is the fork of GNU Barcode, available at this link barcode. This port was fairly easy - I just rewrote the configure script on OS/2. Kudos to Alessandro Rubini for writing an elegant piece of software.
Original README follows. Mentore
#NETWORK LINKS
This is GNU-barcode. The latest release can be downloaded from ftp.gnu.org and mirrors: FTP
It is also available from my own ftp/http server ftp http (same as above).
The current source tree is available by anonymous CVS. See 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: doc
The MS-Windows port is maintained at: win32
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
GLabels, at 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 (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 ([email protected]) 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 ([email protected]).
##MAILING LISTS
There is a mailing list where development is coordinated, called [email protected] . To get subscribed you should echo subscribe | mail [email protected] or anything equivalent.
To receive notification of CVS commit messages, please subscribe to [email protected], by issuing: echo subscribe | mail [email protected]
(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 ([email protected])