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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Off Topic => Topic started by: Bateleur on November 21, 2008, 16:24

Title: Generating a bar code
Post by: Bateleur on November 21, 2008, 16:24

This is a bit of a specialist topic, and only peripherally connected to photography, but does anyone on here know how to generate a bar code from a given number?

I have been given an ISBN (International Standard Book Number) for a book of photographs and poems of mine that I am self-publishing, and I need to print it as a bar code on the back cover.

Any idea on how to do it simply and cheaply without going to a specialist agency or buying software that I'm only ever going to use once.

Thanks

Title: Re: Generating a bar code
Post by: No Longer Cares on November 21, 2008, 16:34

There are bar code fonts on the web that do what you need.

Title: Re: Generating a bar code
Post by: stormchaser on November 21, 2008, 16:47

Believe it or not the Inkscape free vector program will do it.

The program is a free download, no strings. Go to Effects>Render>BarCode

Make sure you know the standard needed, such as UPC 5, etc.

You can then output the barcode as a vector or export a bitmap.

This is one of the few reasons I keep Inkscape around. It does have a few useful functions, but for commercial vector drawing it pretty much sucks.

http://www.inkscape.org/ (http://www.inkscape.org/)

Title: Re: Generating a bar code
Post by: digiology on November 21, 2008, 16:49

You can try here:

http://www.terryburton.co.uk/barcodewriter/generator/

Lots of other free sites out there too if you google "free barcode generator". Good luck!

Title: Re: Generating a bar code
Post by: Bateleur on November 21, 2008, 18:20

Thanks folks. Just what I wanted. Got it now.

I knew I could rely on this forum to come up with the answer.