can we make a barcode for the golden hour book?
anyone?
ryan
bar code for golden book / cd?
Give me the ISBN and I'll give you the barcode. I wrote a program which would generate bar codes from 12 digit numbers - 2 DDMMYY birthdays for example.
Barcodes are fascinating. For most products, there is a country code, an organisation code and a product code. Countries can use a range of numbers. Organisations are given a code, and they can allocate their own product codes. The last digit is a checksum to ensure that the code is read correctly. Companies which make lots of products have short organisation codes.
There are 3 different ways to represent each number in the code - A, B and C. A and B are used for the numbers 2 to7. The combination of bars from A and B encodes the first digit, which doesn't have any bars associated with it. The C series is used for the last 6 digits. I can't remember the sum for the last digit, but it is something like the sum of the odd (1st, 3rd etc) numbers multiplied by 3 plus the sum of the even (2nd, 4th etc) modulus 10.
For ISBN numbers, they all start with 978, so that leaves 9 digits for the rest.
Barcodes are fascinating. For most products, there is a country code, an organisation code and a product code. Countries can use a range of numbers. Organisations are given a code, and they can allocate their own product codes. The last digit is a checksum to ensure that the code is read correctly. Companies which make lots of products have short organisation codes.
There are 3 different ways to represent each number in the code - A, B and C. A and B are used for the numbers 2 to7. The combination of bars from A and B encodes the first digit, which doesn't have any bars associated with it. The C series is used for the last 6 digits. I can't remember the sum for the last digit, but it is something like the sum of the odd (1st, 3rd etc) numbers multiplied by 3 plus the sum of the even (2nd, 4th etc) modulus 10.
For ISBN numbers, they all start with 978, so that leaves 9 digits for the rest.
Here is the Fortran program I wrote for generating the barcode. You can compile it with the command and run it in a pipeline with some other programs for scaling up the PBM and converting it to PNG format like
The data file barcode_data.dat is:
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f77 barcode.f -o barcode
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echo "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2" | ./barcode | pnmscale 4 | pnmtopng > barcode.png
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c output PBM format image of barcode
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program barcode
integer data_file
integer i, j, k, p, height, width
integer checksum
integer given(13), parity(0:9, 2:7), codes(3, 0:9, 7)
parameter (data_file = 10)
parameter (height = 20, width = 97)
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c read in parity and codes from data file
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open (data_file, FILE="barcode_data.dat", STATUS="OLD")
do i = 0, 9
read (data_file, 910) (parity(i, j), j = 2, 7)
enddo
do i = 1, 3
do j = 0, 9
read (data_file, 920) (codes(i, j, k), k = 1, 7)
enddo
enddo
close (data_file)
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c read in given numbers and calculate checksum
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read (*,*) (given(i), i = 1, 12)
given(13) = checksum(given)
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c output
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write (*, 940) "P1"
write (*, 950) width, height + 2
c top line of white
do i = 1, width
write (*, 960) 0
enddo
do k = 1, height
c left guard bars
write (*, 940) "0 1 0 1"
do i = 2, 7
p = parity(given(1), i)
write (*, 920) (codes(p, given(i), j), j = 1, 7)
enddo
c centre guard bars
write (*, 940) "0 1 0 1 0"
do i = 8, 13
write (*, 920) (codes(3, given(i), j), j = 1, 7)
enddo
c right guard bars
write (*, 940) "1 0 1 0"
enddo
c bottom line of white
do i = 1, width
write (*, 960) 0
enddo
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c formats
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910 format (6I2)
920 format (7I2)
940 format (A)
950 format (2I3)
960 format (I2)
stop
end
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c calculate and return checksum from given digits
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integer function checksum(given)
integer i, total, given(12)
total = 0
do i = 1, 12
total = total + given(i)
if (0 == MOD(i, 2)) then
total = total + (2 * given(i))
endif
enddo
checksum = MOD(10 - MOD(total, 10), 10)
return
end
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1 1 1 1 1 1
1 1 2 1 2 2
1 1 2 2 1 2
1 1 2 2 2 1
1 2 1 1 2 2
1 2 2 1 1 2
1 2 2 2 1 1
1 2 1 2 1 2
1 2 1 2 2 1
1 2 2 1 2 1
0 0 0 1 1 0 1
0 0 1 1 0 0 1
0 0 1 0 0 1 1
0 1 1 1 1 0 1
0 1 0 0 0 1 1
0 1 1 0 0 0 1
0 1 0 1 1 1 1
0 1 1 1 0 1 1
0 1 1 0 1 1 1
0 0 0 1 0 1 1
0 1 0 0 1 1 1
0 1 1 0 0 1 1
0 0 1 1 0 1 1
0 1 0 0 0 0 1
0 0 1 1 1 0 1
0 1 1 1 0 0 1
0 0 0 0 1 0 1
0 0 1 0 0 0 1
0 0 0 1 0 0 1
0 0 1 0 1 1 1
1 1 1 0 0 1 0
1 1 0 0 1 1 0
1 1 0 1 1 0 0
1 0 0 0 0 1 0
1 0 1 1 1 0 0
1 0 0 1 1 1 0
1 0 1 0 0 0 0
1 0 0 0 1 0 0
1 0 0 1 0 0 0
1 1 1 0 1 0 0