GUI Barcode generator needed

[michel]

Greetings, I was quite surprised to find out there were no GUI barcode generators in the repos. Do you know of any applications taht are compatible with Kubuntu 12.04?

Thanks,

Michel

[oshunluvr]

http://www.adams1.com/unix.html


the last one - Zint - looks pretty good

[michel]

Zint is not available in the repos. I downloaded a tar folder from the site and tried to install with CMake. Had some errors and no Install. at any rate looks like too much hassle for a simple barcode generator. This is weird!

Michel

[OneLine]

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Searching with the term: "kde barcode"

One of the hits: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php...content=128926
Checking:
- Submitted & Updated dates
- Description
- Last comments

Downloading it.

Unpacking.

Reading the /kbarcode4-light-0.2/README

Opening a konsole window to the /kbarcode4-light-0.2/src/

Starting the python code with the command:

$ python kbarcode.py

Seems to work...

[michel]

Great! It works nicely. Thanks. Why isn't it available from the repos with a "normal" installation?

Michel

[OneLine]

http://domseichter.blogspot.fi/2012/...-released.html

Saturday, 15 December 2012
KBarcode-kde4 port ready and released

KBarcode has been ported to KDE4/Qt4 by Fanda. Also some of the older bugs related to GUI have been fixed. It seems stable...

KBarcode-kde4 is currently in a beta stage. It is not in Ubuntu or Debian repositories yet...

[claydoh]

Great! It works nicely. Thanks. Why isn't it available from the repos with a "normal" installation?

Michel

Basically no one has decided to package it for Debian yet, and by extraction, Ubuntu. Probably because the code has not been touched in a couple of years.

However, the non-python KDE4 port is coming along, though it's still using Qt3 will keep it out of *buntu until that is fixed
http://domseichter.blogspot.com/2012...us-update.html


Oops there is this
http://domseichter.blogspot.com/2012...-released.html

[sdfasfwes]

Here I can recommend you a good barcode solution site. You may take a look. I used their C# barcode generator library in Windows Forms and VB.NET barcode generator library in ASP.NET. You can find the barcode generator you want by yourself there.

[HalationEffect]

Here I can recommend you a good barcode solution site. You may take a look. I used their C# barcode generator library in Windows Forms and VB.NET barcode generator library in ASP.NET. You can find the barcode generator you want by yourself there.

You do realise that this is a Linux forum, right? Those links are for barcode solutions aimed at Microsoft platforms.

[Simon]

LoL Someone got lost...

But here is my non OS related solution: http://www.barcodegenerate.com/

This site does it all, generates all types sizes and print or save from your browser.

[michel]

Sites are good to have but they do not give you thge possibility of saving the barcode as a vector. You need vectors to get production quality artwork and to be able to easily manipulate the barcode (trim it, color it, etc...) so it would be a great added value to package KBarcode and to include it in the repos.

Michel

[perspectoff]

QR Barcodes

If you're interested in the QR type of barcode, now ubiquitous, there is the command line qrencode.
GUI frontend solutions include qtqr amd qreator.

There is also zbar (which accommodates other types of barcodes as well).

All can be installed from packages using repositories.

Further info for all (including installation) from Kubuntuguide:

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Kubuntu_...ffice#QR_Codes