[Koha] Codabar barcode number/image generator

[Nigel Titley]

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.
> 
> Ben
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