barps

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
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EXAMPLES
AUTHOR

NAME

barps - Print an HP41 barcode file on a postscript printer

SYNOPSIS

barps [title] < barcode_file > postscript_file

DESCRIPTION

barps is a filter to print HP41 barcode on a standard Postscript printer. The barcode file is read from standard input, and the (level 1) postscript file is written to standard output. The latter may be piped to lpr in order to directly print the barcode, or redirected to a file.

If the optional argument is given to barps then it is used as the title for each page of printed output. Otherwise the title HP41 Barcode is used

REFERENCES

The format of the HP41 barcode file is given in barcode(5)

The Postscript language is described in PostScript Language Reference Manual, Adobe Systems Inc.

EXAMPLES

If data1 is an raw sdata file, and postscript is a postscript printer then

sdatabar < data1 | barps ’Data File 1’ | lpr -P postscript

will print that file on the postscript printer with the page title Data File 1

AUTHOR

barps was written by Tony Duell, ard@p850ug1.demon.co.uk, and has been placed under the GNU Public License version 2.0