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<p>For a good historic overview of barcodes and there usage we refer to Wikipedia <codeclass="uri"><aclass="uri"href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode"target="_top">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode</a></code></p>
<divclass="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><spanclass="chapter"><ahref="ch24.html">24. Linear Barcodes (One Dimensional Barcodes)</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch24.html#id2595642">24.1. Introduction</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch24s02.html">24.2. How does linear barcodes work?</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch24s03.html">24.3. Barcode symbologies</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch24s03.html#id2595884">24.3.1. Numerical only barcode symbologies</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch24s03.html#id2595984">24.3.2. Alphanumerical barcode symbologies</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch24s03.html#id2596044">24.3.3. Which symbology should be used?</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch24s04.html">24.4. Features</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch24s04.html#id2596334">24.4.1. Sample application</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch24s05.html">24.5. Creating barcodes - quick start</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch24s06.html">24.6. Error handling</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch24s07.html">24.7. Generating barcodes on the command line</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch24s08.html">24.8. Format options for barcodes</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch24s08.html#id2596909">24.8.1. Adjusting the encodation process</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch24s08.html#id2597037">24.8.2. Selecting output format</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch24s08.html#id2597044">24.8.3. Writing barcodes to a file</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch24s08.html#id2597234">24.8.4. Hiding the human readable text</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch24s08.html#id2597265">24.8.5. Adjusting the module width</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch24s08.html#id2597395">24.8.6. Setting vertical or horizontal layout</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch24s08.html#id2597418">24.8.7. Adjusting height of bar code</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch24s08.html#id2597385">24.8.8. Scaling of bar codes</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch24s08.html#id2597465">24.8.9. Add frame around bar code</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch24s08.html#id2597509">24.8.10. Examples of adjusting the output</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch24s09.html">24.9. Short description of supported symbologies</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch24s09.html#id2597569">24.9.1. UPC A</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch24s09.html#id2597660">24.9.2. UPC E</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch24s09.html#id2597818">24.9.3. EAN 8</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch24s09.html#id2597973">24.9.4. EAN 13</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch24s09.html#id2598038">24.9.5. EAN 128</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch24s09.html#id2598150">24.9.6. Industrial 2 of 5</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch24s09.html#id2598244">24.9.7. Interleaved 2 of 5</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch24s09.html#id2598510">24.9.8. CODE 11 (USD 8)</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch24s09.html#id2598581">24.9.9. CODE 39</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch24s09.html#id2598798">24.9.10. CODE 39 Extended</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch24s09.html#id2598941">24.9.11. CODE 128</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch24s09.html#id2599111">24.9.12. CODABAR</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch24s09.html#id2599182">24.9.13. Bookland (ISBN)</a></span></dt></dl></dd></dl></dd><dt><spanclass="chapter"><ahref="ch25.html">25. PDF417 (2D-Barcode)</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch25.html#id2599362">25.1. Principle of PDF417 Barcodes</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch25.html#id2599518">25.1.1. PDF417 standard</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch25.html#id2599540">25.1.2. Data capacity</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch25.html#id2599627">25.1.3. Structure of PDF417 barcodes</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch25s02.html">25.2. Creating barcodes</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch25s02.html#id2599905">25.2.1. Introduction</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch25s03.html">25.3. Creating barcodes</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch25s04.html">25.4. Specifying the PDF417 parameters</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch25s04.html#id2600768">25.4.1. Specifying encoding and input data</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch25s04.html#id2601186">25.4.2. Encoder option: Adjusting the number of data columns</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch25s04.html#id2601209">25.4.3. Encoder option: Adjusting the error level</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch25s04.html#id2601957">25.4.4. Truncated PDF417</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch25s05.html">25.5. Adjusting the output</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch25s05.html#id2602136">25.5.1. Output format</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch25s05.html#id2602186">25.5.2. Summary of user settings for the backend</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch25s06.html">25.6. A template to create barcodes</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch25s07.html">25.7. Method reference</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch25s07.html#id2602322">25.7.1. Encoder methods</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch25s07.html#id2602572">25.7.2. Common backend methods</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch25s07.html#id2603037">25.7.3. Image backend methods</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch25s07.html#id2603084">25.7.4. Postscript backend methods</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch25s08.html">25.8. Example scripts</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch25s08.html#id2603211">25.8.1. Showing human readable text</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch25s08.html#id2603267">25.8.2. Altering colors</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch25s08.html#id2603338">25.8.3. Creating postscript output</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch25s08.html#id2603350">25.8.4. Manually selecting compaction schema</a></span></dt></dl></dd></dl></dd><dt><spanclass="chapter"><ahref="ch26.html">26. Datamatrix (2D-Barcode)</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch26.html#id2603444">26.1. Principle of Datamatrix Barcodes</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch26.html#id2603529">26.1.1. Summary of features offered in the library</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch26.html#id2603714">26.1.2. Limitation of the JpGraph Datamatrix implementation</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch26.html#id2603732">26.1.3. Datamatrix standard</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch26.html#id2603763">26.1.4. Structure of Data Matrix codes</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch26.html#sec.encodation-efficiency">26.1.5. Encodation efficiency</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch26.html#id2604233">26.1.6. More on ECC Datamatrix subsets</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch26.html#id2604289">26.1.7. Symbology Data capacity</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch26s02.html">26.2. Creating barcodes</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch26s02.html#id2605827">26.2.1. Getting started</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch26s02.html#id2606128">26.2.2. Error handling</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch26s02.html#id2606133">26.2.3. Encodation options</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch26s02.html#id2606704">26.2.4. Processing special input characters</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch26s02.html#id2607268">26.2.5. Creating different backends</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch26s02.html#id2607359">26.2.6. Generic backend methods</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch26s02.html#id2607382">26.2.7. Image backend methods</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch26s02.html#id2607457">26.2.8. Postscript backend format options</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch26s02.html#id2607560">26.2.9. A template to create barcodes</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch26s02.html#id2607586">26.2.10. Sample application</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch26s03.html">26.3. Example script</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch26s03.html#id2607662">26.3.1. Example 1 - Setting the shape</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch26s03.html#id2607759">26.3.2. Example 2 - Writing to a file</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch26s03.html#id2607790">26.3.3. Example 3 - Creating postscript output</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch26s03.html#id2607848">26.3.4. Example 4 - Changing background color</a></span></dt></dl></dd></dl></dd><dt><spanclass="chapter"><ahref="ch27.html">27. QR (2D-Barcode)</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch27.html#id2607928">27.1. Principle of QR Barcodes</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch27.html#id2608051">27.1.1. Summary of library features</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch27.html#id2608266">27.1.2. Limitation in the JpGraph QR implementation</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch27.html#id2608289">27.1.3. QR Standard</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch27.html#id2608327">27.1.4. Structure and capacity of QR barcodes</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch27.html#id2608334">27.1.5. QR versions and symbol size</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch27.html#id2616457">27.1.6. Error correction level</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch27.html#id2616507">27.1.7. Comparing the visual output with other QR-generating software</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch27s02.html">27.2. Creating barcodes</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch27s02.html#id2616673">27.2.1. Getting started</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch27s02.html#id2616978">27.2.2. Error handling</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch27s02.html#id2617132">27.2.3. Creating an encoder</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch27s02.html#id2617978">27.2.4. Encodation of input data options</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch27s02.html#id2618170">27.2.5. Reading input data from a file</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch27s02.html#id2618220">27.2.6. Creating different backends</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch27s02.html#id2618316">27.2.7. Generic backend methods</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch27s02.html#id2618431">27.2.8. Image backend methods</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch27s02.html#id2618458">27.2.9. Postscript backend methods</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch27s02.html#id2618569">27.2.10. A template to create barcodes</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch27s02.html#id2618643">27.2.11. Sample application</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><spanclass="sect1"><ahref="ch27s03.html">27.3. Example scripts</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch27s03.html#id2618715">27.3.1. Example 1 - Store QR code to file</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch27s03.html#id2618745">27.3.2. Example 2 - Specified error correction level</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch27s03.html#id2618804">27.3.3. Example 3 - Manual specified encoding</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch27s03.html#id2618868">27.3.4. Example 4 - JPEG image format</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch27s03.html#id2618932">27.3.5. Example 5 - Multiple manual encoding</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch27s03.html#id2619008">27.3.6. Example 6 - Reading data from file</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch27s03.html#id2619074">27.3.7. Example 7 - Adjusting colors</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch27s03.html#id2619119">27.3.8. Example 8 - Setting error correction level</a></span></dt><dt><spanclass="sect2"><ahref="ch27s03.html#id2619201">27.3.9. Example 9 - Generating ASCII output</a></span></dt></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></div></div>
