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

       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).

Debian                                             2018-12-25                                         BARCODE(1)

       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.

       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.

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

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.

       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.

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

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

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