BARCODE(1)

✨ BARCODE(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the GNU Barcode glow-up 💅 this is the manual page for barcode, and yes it's the GNU Barcode one, the standalone little icon that turns your text into actual printed bars. let's get into it 🎀

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🌈 NAME 🌈

barcode — a standalone program to convert text strings to printed bars 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

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

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

This manual page documents briefly the barcode command as provided by the barcode package. short and sweet, no cap.

GNU barcode is a standalone program that converts text strings to printed bars. it's able to read user supplied strings from the command line or from a data file (standard input by default, bestie, that's the default) and encode all of them. every single one. periodt. 👑

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

barcode accepts the following options:

• --help or -h — print a usage summary and exit. that's it, that's the whole thing, so iconic 💫
• -i <arg> — specify input file (the strings to encode). default is stdin.
• -o <arg> — specify output file. default is stdout.
• -b <arg> — specify the string to encode (use input file if missing).
• -e <arg> — specify encoding type. default is best fit for the 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. just vibes, no words 🚫🔤
• -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.

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🦋 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. go get that list, bestie, it's right there 💅

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💀 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.

not me asking you to file bugs politely, but fr fr, they wanna hear from you 🙈

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🌸 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/

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

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

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

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and that's the whole thing, bestie ✨ this page is from the Debian crew and it's dated 2018-12-25, so happy holidays to this manual page specifically 🎁 go forth and encode, you've got this 💖