Just as a matter of interest I'm using glabels to generate stick on labels, including barcodes. This is for a private library so we don't need very durable labels, but it may be of interest (particularly if you use a laser printer and some of the new heavy duty labels obtainable from Avery (we use them as asset tags at work, so they must be pretty durable)) On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 23:43, Ben Ostrowsky wrote:

Hi folks --

In response to a question on perl4lib, I whipped up a barcode generator that will make 1-30 barcodes at a time, given the 5-digit prefix and what follows it.

http://bernie.tblc.org/~ostrowb/barcodes.html

It uses Codabar, which is what we're using at our Dynix library. If any particular symbology would be especially helpful, let me know and I'm sure I can make that available.

Would this be useful as a part of Koha's staff functions? Obviously you'd have to do something to get these onto labels, but you could at least insert the images into a word-processor document with a label template...

If it's useful, I'd recommend adding some sanity checks to drawbarcode.pl like the ones in makebarcodes.pl -- a referer check, at the very least. And I should probably have an option to calculate the next barcode just by scanning in the last barcode.

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