Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript http://www.terryburton.co.uk/barcodewriter/
Copyright (c) 2005 Terry Burton - tez@terryburton.co.uk
Description:
Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript facilitates the printing of all major barcode symbologies entirely within PostScript.
Since this resource is written in PostScript and interpretted within the virtual machine of a printer it is compatible with virtually any operating system and hardware platform.
It makes including any barcode within a PostScript document as simple as inserting the following directive:
(1-86074-271) (includetext height=0.9) isbn barcode
Files:
barcode.ps
This file is the main PostScript resource that should be included within the prologue of any PostScript document in which you would like to produce barcodes. Alternatively this resource can be loaded into the virtual machine of a PostScript printer until hardware reset, removing the need to include the resource in each document. To do this uncomment the relevant line near top of the file and send it to the printer.
sample.ps
This file contains an example invocation of each of the encoders to produce a page containing an instance of each barcode symbology.
barcode_with_sample.ps
The file contains both the resource and sample produced by concatinating barcode.ps and sample.ps. It is suitable for viewing in a PostScript viewer such as gv or GSview, or sending directly to the printer with a command like:
lpr barcode_with_sample.ps (Unix) copy /B barcode_with_sample.ps LPT1: (Windows)
Support:
The project homepage which contains the latest downloads and documentation is at http://www.terryburton.co.uk/barcodewriter/
The project development and support mailing list archive is at http://groups.google.co.uk/group/postscriptbarcode
A number of different sample uses for the project are available in the repository at http://www.terryburton.co.uk/barcodewriter/files/repositiory/
There is an online demonstration of the project available via the web-based front-end at http://www.raise-the-bar.co.uk/demo
If you are a business requiring specialist commercial support or development work to back-up your use of this software, this is provided by the author through Raise the Bar Technologies Ltd at http://www.raise-the-bar.co.uk
License:
Anybody is free to use and develop this code as they see fit, under the terms of the permissive MIT/X-Consortium License. As such the author takes no liability for its use or misuse.
If you make any improvements please send them to the mailing list so that the mainline code may be improved.
