Re: [Kbarcode] Barcode Formats

[Dirk H. <iq...@go...>]

Hi,

I want to resume an old post from 2009 (see below) and have two questions:

Question 1:

How do I install the pdf417_enc barcode backend into kbarcode? I have
read kbarcode-2.0.0.pdf, looked at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdf417encode, downloaded the
pdf417encode source, decompressed it and read its README but I don't
know what to do now. Can somebody please point me in the right
direction?

Question 2:

The DataMatrix symbology is - according to the kbarcode website - only
available with the TBarcode backend, which is (beside the demo) not
for free. Is this some kind of legal issue why there is no free
kbarcode backend for DataMatrix or is it simply the only backend known
to the developers that supports DataMatrix? The question arose to me
because there is the GPL library libdmtx
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/libdmtx) that can produce and scan
DataMatrix.

Thanks in advance.

Dirk

> On Thursday 24 September 2009 7:49:03 am Chauncey Montgomery wrote:
>> I recently have migrated to a new machine and installed OpenSUSE 11.1
>> and installed Kbarcode 2.0.6.
>>
>> For some reason, I do not have the same options I had for barcode
>> formats that I had on my old machine (I forget what version of Kbarcode
>> I was using).  For example, I used to have options like "Raw Code 128
>> [GNU Barcode]" and "Code 39 (no checksum) [GNU Barcode]".  Now the only
>> options I have for formats are "Barcode Writer in Pure Postscript".  Is
>> there any way to install the other formats, or is there something else I
>> need to do?
>>
>> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> CM
>
> See here for explanation:
>
> http://www.kbarcode.net/Barcode-Backends.26.0.html
>
>
> Short answer is you probably need to install GNU Barcode.
>
> --
> Adrian Klaver
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