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Right aligning barcodes

googlegro...@redgrittybrick.org (RedGrittyBrick) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 14:38:10 UT

I'm using Code-128 and wish to right align the barcode against the
right margin of the printable area.

When printing text using Postscript I can use the stringwidth function
to achieve this.

Is there any recommended or suggested way to achieve right alignment
with barcodewriter? The length of my barcode data is not fixed so I

Issue with text positioning: textxalign, textyoffset

giul...@gmail.com (Giulio) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:34:09 UT

I'm using barcode.ps from a tarball which carries 2009-11-06 as the
most recent date in CHANGES.

1) textxalign=center
I'm trying using textxalign=center but the output I get is weird, it
doesn't seem to be really centered, sometimes using textxalign=center
gets things worse than the default from a centering perspective.

Web front end example source code

nick...@gmail.com (Nick A) — Sat, 11 Nov 2009 00:25:48 UT

(I couldn't find anything in the archives or docs, so I thought I'd
ask.)

Is there any available source code (PHP, Perl, etc.) for a web front-
end to the PostScript Barcode Writer?

The PostScript Barcode Writer is probably the most impressive barcode
generating library I've seen (open source or commercial), but I've

Are non-zero number systems allowed in UPC-E?

koalaatb81dot...@gmail.com (Koala) — Thu, 11 Nov 2009 08:36:28 UT

Dear Terry,

After searching via Google, I found that:

1. "A UPC-E barcode has 6 digits with an implied number system 0."
[[link]]

2. "UPC-E is a variation of the UPC-A symbol that is used for number
system 0."
[[link]]

ASCII85 encoding of named resources and a new LTO tape label example

t...@terryburton.co.uk (Terry Burton) — Tue, 10 Oct 2009 14:59:16 UT

Hi,
I've recently changed the packaging format for the PostScript named
resource delivery method [1] for BWIPP so that the resource files are
now ASCII85 encoded. This makes them a lot more suitable for copying
and pasting into PS documents.
They now look something like this:
% uk.co.terryburton.bwipp/code39

Documentation update

t...@terryburton.co.uk (Terry Burton) — Thu, 10 Oct 2009 18:12:22 UT

Hi,
Just a quite note to say that I have recently updated the symbologies
documentation in the project wiki so that it is now up to date with
the options for 2D barcodes:
[link]
All the best,
Terry

Discussion on Code 93 Extended

koalaatb81dot...@gmail.com (Koala) — Thu, 09 Sep 2009 20:20:23 UT

Hi Terry,

While using the "code93 ENCODER" to dump the full 128 character ASCII,
I found there are some "typos" in this page...

1. In the "Overview" section, code 93 is a continuous symbology, since
each symbol begins with a bar and ends
with a space
(in contrast to code 39)

how rotate a bardcode 2D ?

francesc.guim...@gmail.com (Francesc) — Tue, 08 Aug 2009 09:52:46 UT

Hi Terry,
congratulations for your webpage and excellent work..
so only one question, do you know who rotate 90º a bardcode
for example pdf417 or 39 to portrait to Landscape ?

Thanks for your support.
Regards

PDF417 barcode

pyro...@gmail.com (pyro409) — Tue, 08 Aug 2009 20:20:42 UT

I am having difficulty with pdf417, if anybody can tell me what is
happening, I would appriciate it.

Here is a working example:
415 331 moveto (M000005392|RFS-042942|Q260|UE A|L501313910|F|A501313910|
D20090805|) (columns=13 eclevel=8) pdf417

Here is the example generating errors:
415 331 moveto (M000005392|RFS-042942|Q260|UE A|L501313810|F|A501313810|

Check digit FAQ

t...@terryburton.co.uk (Terry Burton) — Mon, 08 Aug 2009 10:18:43 UT

From many@different people at many:different:times:
Hi,
The above is a Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) that I often receive,
usually off-list. My answer is always along the following lines, so
I'm replying here so that we can direct users to this reply in future:
000...02312 is not a valid barcode, unlike 000...02313. This is

Start chars in Code 11

koalaatb81dot...@gmail.com (Koala) — Thu, 08 Aug 2009 03:19:52 UT

Hi Terry,

The Code 11 encoder seems using "-" as the start symbol.

From wiki:
[link]
[link]

the start/stop symbol are both 1011001 (in barcode.ps, it's encoded as
(113311), the 12th symbol)

Sorry that I have no diff/patch tools right now thus can't submit a

maxicode

herber...@googlemail.com (Herbert) — Tue, 08 Aug 2009 20:57:16 UT

Hi Terry,
for DANTE's journal "Die TeXnische Komödie" we need the maxicode
for the address. The german post expects a 52x52 maxicode with
a data only in hex numbers. I tried it with current barcode.ps
A data example is:

444541191400F7DC00980000508024 3F0001414243313233345800%
000000000000000000000000000000 00C5F04BF66C6E00000000%

Outstanding features list

t...@terryburton.co.uk (Terry Burton) — Mon, 08 Aug 2009 15:44:10 UT

Hi,
I've recently added my TODO list [1] to the trunk of the BWIPP
repository so that people can see what features are possibly on the
horizon.
Please take a look at this and let me know what features you are
immediately interested in so that I can prioritise my future
development effort. Either respond either via this list or by the

Changes to GS1 DataBar Omnidirectional and Limited

t...@terryburton.co.uk (Terry Burton) — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:55:26 UT

Hi,
For the sake of being consistent with the new input format of the
rssexpanded encoder (DataBar Expanded) I've modified the rss14 encoder
(DataBar Omnidirectional) and rsslimited encoder (DataBar Limited) to
require that the input is provided with the Application Identifier
prefix, always (01) for these symbologies.

GS1 DataBar Expanded (Stacked) autoencoder

t...@terryburton.co.uk (Terry Burton) — Thu, 07 July 2009 23:42:47 UT

Hi all,
I've now integrated an autoencoder for GS1 DataBar Expanded into the
latest release of BWIPP, 2009-07-30-1.
This means that you now invoke this symbology as in the following examples:
0 0 moveto ((01)98898765432106(3202)01234 5(15)991231) () rssexpanded
0 0 moveto ((99)Smile :-^041) () rssexpanded