KBarcode

KBarcode is a barcode and label printing application for KDE. It can be used to print everything from simple business cards up to complex labels with several barcodes (e.g. article descriptions).

KBarcode comes with an easy to use WYSIWYG label designer, a setup wizard, batch import of data for batch printing labels (directly from the delivery note), thousands of predefined labels, database management tools and translations in many languages. Even printing more than 10.000 labels in one go is no problem for KBarcode. Data for printing can be imported from several different data sources, including SQL databases, CSV files and the KDE address book.

Additionally it is a simple barcode generator (similar to the old xbarcode you might know). All major types of barcodes like EAN, UPC, CODE39 and ISBN are supported. Even complex 2D barcodes are supported using third party tools. The generated barcodes can be directly printed or you can export them into images to use them in another application.

KBarcode is free software released under the terms of the GNU GPL.

KBarcode 2.0.7:

This maintenance release fixes bugs that prevent using KBarcode on recent distributions.
For this reason, workarounds for bugs in Qt 3.3.2 and earlier have been removed, therefore those versions are no longer supported.
The source package was tested on Mandriva One 2008.1 and Ubuntu 8.04, among others.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to our mailing list: kbarcode-users@lists.sourceforge.net


KBarcode 2.0.6:

This release fixes the long standing issue with disapearing objects, printing from CSV files and connecting to CSV files. Thanks to Dag Nygren and Váradi Zsolt Gyula for their patches and to everyone else who has contributed to this release.

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March 16, 2006 (The INTERNET). The KBarcode Team is proud to announce the
availability of the stable release 2.0.0 yof KBarcode, the leading label
printing and barcoding solution for KDE.

Almost two years of development were put into the second generation of
KBarcode to make it more stable, more powerful and easier to use.

Notable changes include:
- Several data sources can be used to print labels:
~ KBarcodes SQL tables
~ Custom SQL queries
~ CSV files
~ The KDE addressbook
- More supported barcode symbologies thanks to the included barcode
backend "Barcode Writer in Pure Postscript".
- JavaScript support (for barcode values, text fields and visibility
of components)
- Batch printing is now configured through a wizard interface making
it a totally simple task
- Images can be loaded from a path constructed from an expression
- Completely rewritten KBarcode Handbook in PDF form

Getting KBarcode
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KBarcode can be downloaded from our webpage www.kbarcode.net in source
and binary form. The KBarcode Handbook can also be found on this page as well
as screenshots of KBarcode and more information on the project.

What is KBarcode?
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KBarcode is a barcode and label printing application for KDE. It can be used
to print everything from simple business cards up to complex labels with
several barcodes (e.g. article descriptions).

KBarcode comes with an easy to use WYSIWYG label designer, a setup wizard,
batch import of data for batch printing labels (directly from the delivery
note), thousands of predefined labels, database management tools and
translations in many languages. Even printing more than 10.000 labels in one
go is no problem for KBarcode. Data for printing can be imported from several
different data sources, including SQL databases, CSV files and the KDE address
book.

Additionally it is a simple barcode generator (similar to the old xbarcode you
might know). All major types of barcodes like EAN, UPC, CODE39 and ISBN are
supported. Even complex 2D barcodes are supported using third party tools. The
generated barcodes can be directly printed or you can export them into images
to use them in another application.

KBarcode is free software released under the terms of the GNU GPL at: http://www.kbarcode.net/fileadmin/user_upload/anouncement.pdf