Quoting H S Rai <hsrai@edumail.nic.in>:
For the timing, I would like to know how to print barcode. Is it possible through Koha or some other program.
Hi H. S. Rai You can print barcodes with afew aplications in linux. One of this is kbarcode this is a X windows application here is website: http://www.kbarcode.net/ I haven't try this software, but this software is using GNU's barcode program at backward which I use before. GNU's barcode software one of best program to create barcodes. In fact you can solve all barcoding problems using GNU's barcode software. It's web site is: http://www.gnu.org/directory/GNU/barcode.html When you download the program you have to untar and complie it with these commands: to untar: tar xzvf barcode-0.98.tar.gz to compile change to barcode-0.98 directory and type: ./configure && make && make install now you can type barcode --help to show all options. First of all you have to decide which kind of barcodes (barcode encoding standard) you will use. Here is some information: ean: we are using ean barcodes at university library. Many market products uses this standart. This barcodes consist of 13 figures and a checksum figure. we are using with this structure first three figure is instute's code, second 6 figure is book numbers and third three figure is book type and of course last is checksum figure and it will ber automaticaly creating. ex: 011-005077-001-0 (no dash in real barcode) code 39: this standart is much more flexsible you can use any alfanumeric characters to produce a barcode (ex: 12345ABC) You can find and be informed about this standarts at this page: http://www.makebarcode.com/specs/speclist.html If you know perl/C/pyton you can write a script for different needed to produce barcodes. But the basic command will be like this: barcode -i list -o bcodes.ps -e ean -t 3x7 -i filename list file consist of string every line to be encoded -o filename a postscript file you will be see and print your barcodes -e encoding encoding methods -t table how you want to see and print your barcodes at page? of course you can change margins, page layout etc. The last thing is that; about every barcode readers can read all of this formats even you can buy an old second hand model to see if it is working. This barcode readers usualy share with your mouse or keyboard input with a plug in cable. Usualy no driver is needed. Best regards. Zeki Celikbas ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://webmail.itu.edu.tr