NAME

barcode - a standalone program to convert text strings to printed bars

SYNOPSIS

barcode [[-b - | string] | [-i - | input_file]] [-e encoding] [-o - | outfile] [ other-flags ]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the barcode command as provided by barcode package.

GNU barcode is a standalone program that converts text strings to printed bars. It is able to read user supplied strings from the command line or a data file (standard input by default) and encode all of them.

OPTIONS

barcode accepts the following options:

--help or -h

Print a usage summary and exit.

-i <arg>

Specify input file (strings to encode), default is stdin

-o <arg>

Specify output file, default is stdout

-b <arg>

Specify string to encode (use input file if missing)

-e <arg>

Specify encoding type (default is best fit for first string)

-u <arg>

Specify unit to be used ("mm", "in", ...). This option is used to decode -g, -t and -p.

-g <arg>

Specify geometry on the page: [<wid>x<hei>][+<margin>+<margin>]

-t <arg>

Specify table geometry: <cols>x<lines>[+<margin>+<margin>]

-m <arg>

Specify internal margin for each item in a table: <xm>[,<ym>]

-n

Be "numeric": avoid printing text along with the bars

-c

no Checksum character, if the chosen encoding allows it

-E

Print one code as eps file (default: multi-page ps)

-S

Print one code as svg file (default: multi-page ps)

-P

Create PCL output instead of postscript

-p <arg>

Specify page size. Please refer to texinfo doc for more information.

-s

Use streaming mode. Please refer to texinfo doc for more information.

ENCODING TYPES

The program encodes text strings passed either on the command line (with -b) or retrieved from standard input. The text representation is interpreted according to certain rules. Please refer to texinfo doc as described below for detail introduction.

To get a list of supported encoding type names, please call the program with "-h" option.

REPORTING BUGS

Please mail bug reports and suggestions to bug-barcode@gnu.org or submit them onto its Bug Tracker on https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/barcode .

Please report Debian-specific bugs using Debian Bug Tracking System.

SEE ALSO

Full documentation of GNU barcode is available as a texinfo document provided by the authors. Please call info barcode to read it after having GNU Info documentation reader installed.

Project homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/barcode/

AUTHOR

Alessandro Rubini(maintainer)
Leonid A. Broukhis(several encodings)
Andrea Scopece(PCL output)

This manual page is written by Boyuan Yang for the Debian Project (but may be used by others).