Re: [Kbarcode] Barcode Formats

[Dominik S. <dom...@we...>]

Hi Dirk,

Simply put pdf417encode into your path and KBarcode should find it. 
Unfortunately, I do not know if KBarcode will work together with recent 
version of pdf417encode, as I did not have time to really work on KBarcode for 
the last 2 or 3 years.

This might also be the answer for your second question. libdmtx was not 
available when I started KBarcode and I did not have time to add any new 
barcode backends in the past. You might try to add support for it yourself 
easily though, if it can output images.

Regards,
	Dom

Am Donnerstag 10 Juni 2010 schrieben Sie:
> 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
> > ak...@co...
> 
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