Overview

EAN-8 is a shortened form of EAN-13 holding less data.

Invoking

• The data field takes either 7 or 8 digits, optionally followed by a space then 2 or 5 digits if an addon is required.
• If 7 digits of primary data are supplied the the 8th checkdigit is calculated automatically, otherwise the digits are encoded as supplied.
• The includetext option should normally be supplied.

Example

0 0 moveto (01335583) (includetext) ean8