[Announce] Cocoa Barcodes is now open source and available on Google Code
[Announce] Cocoa Barcodes is now open source and available on Google Code
- Subject: [Announce] Cocoa Barcodes is now open source and available on Google Code
- From: Jeff LaMarche <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:42:26 -0400
I just finished checking in the source code for Barcode Generator, a
Cocoa program I wrote a few years ago into Google Code as an open
source project (BSD Licensed). It contains a fairly easy-to-use set of
classes for generating 2D barcodes.
http://code.google.com/p/cocoabarcodes/
Project Description:
Cocoa Barcodes is a set of classes (and a test application) for
generating two-dimensional barcodes. It supports many of the more
common one-dimensional linear barcodes in use today, allows you to
export a barcode as a TIFF, EPS, or PDF image, to copy the barcode
image to the pasteboard, or to drag it to any other application that
accepts standard OS X PDF data from the pasteboard, including
TextEdit?. You can also print barcodes directly to any supported
printer. Please note that you may not be able to create readable
barcodes at all bar widths allowed by a specification. For example,
Code 3 of 9 allows a bar width of as small as 7.5 mils, but I haven't
had much luck going smaller than 13 mils on ink jet printers.
You have a fair amount of control over the final appearance of the
barcode, including the bar width (in 1/10 mil increments), bar height,
font size, and captioning. The following barcode types are supported:
Code 3 of 9
Extended Code 3 of 9
Code 128
Interleaved 2 of 5
Industrial 2 of 5
Codabar
PostNet
Modified Plessey
Modified Plessey (hexadecimal)
UPC-A
UPC-E
EAN-13
EAN-8
Royal Mail Barcode (also known as RM4SCC or CBC)
Planet Barcode
Japan Post Barcode
Cocoa Barcodes is based on Barcode Generator, an open source Mac
program which began its life as a test scaffold for a set of Cocoa
classes I was writing. I did not initially intend to release it as a
standalone program, but by the time I was done testing the code, it
had the lion's share of the features available on other OS X barcode
programs at the time so I decided to release it.
Jeff
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