[Gambas-user] Generating EAN13 barcodes

[Stephen Bungay]

As an alternative, one can execute the 'barcode' app from a shell and 
grab the resulting output.

Benoit Minisini wrote:
> On dimanche 18 mai 2008, charlesg wrote:
>> Firstly, a thank you to Benoit and all involved with the development of
>> Gambas. I am not a professional programmer (as the following shows!) and
>> have had to adjust to the inevitable differences between the presentation
>> of commercial and 'for-the-love-of-it' software. Having said that, I really
>> do like Gambas: it is my kind of software.
>>
>> Here is a module to print EAN-13 barcodes from first principles. I wrote it
>> because I could not get scannable results using the available ttf fonts.
>>
>> In this demonstration, the barcode module is called by a simple FMain which
>> will print the resultant barcode on the screen or on a default printer. The
>> logic comes (as does the meaning of life itself) from Wikipedia
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Article_Number). I have not checked
>> the array data against the Wikipedia article as well as I should. Please
>> check. http://www.nabble.com/file/p17303208/barcode-0.0.3.tar.gz
>> barcode-0.0.3.tar.gz
> 
> I can't download the archive. I get a corrupted file...
>