Every autumn/Christmas, I find myself wanting to create some barcodes for use at my workplace. I don't have access or authority to use any software at work for this purpose, so I must rely on "home-built" solutions. These barcodes will be printed out and be laminated on a lanyard around my neck.
I would like barcodes that can be easily resized, so I can find the size that works best for the laser barcode readers that we have.
I would rather have software (and the final barcode files) here on my local machine (no web-based software, and no proprietary formats if possible). The barcodes I will create could range from, I don't know, 16-20 "squares" on both X and Y axis to 32 or maybe more, and probably be around, oh, I don't know, 20-23 millimeters in each dimension (maybe larger for more complex barcodes).
I thought about Inkscape for Windows/Linux; I toyed around with it briefly in 2005, but now it seems full-featured, quite complex and better suited to photo editing.
I suppose the interface would have a "grid". Kind of like working with the gridlines on a 8.5 by 11 inch sheet of paper in a desktop publishing program, but these gridlines would only be for what amounts to a 16 by 16 or a 32 by 32 piece of clipart, basically (the user can choose the exact size beforehand). I could click with a mouse to turn each square white or black, then save the file. That's all I need.
Is this the best way to accomplish this task? I don't need a huge, full-blown piece of software to create one or two barcodes......
Any advice would be greatly appreciated !
I would like barcodes that can be easily resized, so I can find the size that works best for the laser barcode readers that we have.
I would rather have software (and the final barcode files) here on my local machine (no web-based software, and no proprietary formats if possible). The barcodes I will create could range from, I don't know, 16-20 "squares" on both X and Y axis to 32 or maybe more, and probably be around, oh, I don't know, 20-23 millimeters in each dimension (maybe larger for more complex barcodes).
I thought about Inkscape for Windows/Linux; I toyed around with it briefly in 2005, but now it seems full-featured, quite complex and better suited to photo editing.
I suppose the interface would have a "grid". Kind of like working with the gridlines on a 8.5 by 11 inch sheet of paper in a desktop publishing program, but these gridlines would only be for what amounts to a 16 by 16 or a 32 by 32 piece of clipart, basically (the user can choose the exact size beforehand). I could click with a mouse to turn each square white or black, then save the file. That's all I need.
Is this the best way to accomplish this task? I don't need a huge, full-blown piece of software to create one or two barcodes......
Any advice would be greatly appreciated !
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