This is a pure Lua library for drawing barcode symbols. barracuda components'
are able to typeset barcode from within a LuaTeX document in order to produce a
PDF file, or is also possible to use a Lua standalone interpreter to draw
barcodes in different graphic format such as SVG (see an example below).
The internal modules are structured to ensure good performance beside of a complete user control over barcode symbol parameters 👍
Although development is in beta stage, barracuda has a good level of
stability. The package does not have any dependences.
Version: 0.0.12 - Date: 2022-06-23
So far, the barcode symbologies supported by the package are:
- Code 39
- Code 128
- Interleaved 2 of 5 (ITF14, i2of5 general)
- EAN family (ISBN, ISSN, EAN8, EAN13, and the add-ons EAN5 and EAN2)
- UPC-A
Other 1D encoding symbology will be eventually added to the project, then it will be the turn of 2D barcode types like Datamatrix, QRCode or PDF417.
The LaTeX package barracuda.sty under the cover uses Lua code so you need to
compile your source files with LuaTeX or LuajitTeX with the LaTeX format.
For instance, the follow is a minimal working example for LuaLaTeX:
% !TeX program = LuaLaTeX
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{barracuda}
\begin{document}
\barracuda{code39}{123ABC}
\end{document}Details and package reference can be found in the manual delivered in the doc
project directory, even if actually it is very minimal at the moment.
Directory test contains files useful also for code examples.
The barracuda package can be used with pure Lua interpreter or from within a
TeX source file for Lua-powered typesetting engine like LuaTeX. In the first
case you can manually copy src folder content to a suitable directory of
your system. Otherwise, you can install the package via tlmgr for your TeX
Live distribution.
If you have installed TeX Live with the full schema, barracuda is just
available and no further action is required. Please, take into account that
only the tagged version (in the git sense) of the package will be sent to
CTAN. This means that intermediate development version between consecutive
releases can be found only at https://github.com/robitex/barracuda .
TeX Live distribution or Lua interpreter executable are available for a very
large number of Operating Systems so it is also for barracuda.
Step by step instruction can be found in the INSTALL.txt file.
Contributes are welcome in any form and for any topics. You can contact me
directly via email at giaconet.mailbox@gmail.com or via a pull request direct to
the repository https://github.com/robitex/barracuda or writing a public
message via the web page https://github.com/robitex/barracuda/issues for
todos, bugs, feature requests, and more (press the bottom New issue).
Anyway, as a starting point take a look of PLANNER.txt file for the development program.
barracuda project is released under the
GNU GPL v2.
Please, for more legal details refer to LICENSE.txt file or visit the web page
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Copyright (C) 2019-2022 Roberto Giacomelli