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To Do

lineaire — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:07:59 CDT

Group the bar and the text -> Update on V0.3
Add EAN 8 Standard -> Update on V0.3
Add UPCA UPCE Standard
Add ISB ISBN13 Standard
Validation and error messages (Inkscape is missing a good interface to send back message !!!)
Optimize big bar to be only on rectangle instead of several -> Fixed from V0.2
Add 'half size' option -> Update on V0.2
Add 'without text' option
Add Help tag on window (as in measure path extension)
Add others standards not derived from EAN13 (Code 128...)
Internationalisation (At least English Version)
...

Links

lineaire — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:03:42 CDT

Information for writing extensions and softwares
www.ekips.org/comp/inkscape/
www.colibre.com.br/bin/view/Aurium/InkscapeCalendarShellScript
wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/MakingAnExtension
blogmarks.net/marks/tag/python,svg

Some extensions...
math.univ-lille1.fr/~barraud/Inkscape/pathdeform/
julvitard.free.fr/eqtexsvg/
www.nabble.com/Color-fill-t302404.html

One discussion group about inkscape but seems no more activity ?
http://groups.google.com/group/inkscapewindows?lnk=gschg

These links are about barcode
wikipython.flibuste.net/moin.py/GenerateurCodeBarre
http://www.barcodeisland.com/ean8.phtml
http://www.isbn-international.org/
http://grandzebu.net/index.php?page=/informatique/codbar/code128.htm

Home Wiki of Inkbar

lineaire — Tue, 22 May 2007 11:24:20 CDT

This is the wiki associated with the inkbar site.
Inkbar is an extension for Inkscape to draw bar code.
It is written in Python.

Inkbar

Inkscape

How to use .inx file

Python

How to read input parameter

Others

Manual

Anonymous — Tue, 15 May 2007 02:16:16 CDT

Installation

Download last stable version from inkbar.lineaire.net
For best results you should also have the latest inkscape stable version installed
During the installation process Inkscape should not be running
Unzip the files in the extension directory (Windows is ...\inkscape\share\extensions)
Run inkscape your new Inkbar extension is now ready to run

Usage

Update

Follow the same process as install
The old extension need not to be removed
During the copy process you will be asked to replace the old files. Answer yes.
You can always back to a previous version.

ChangeLog

lineaire — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:17:06 CDT

28/04/2007
- Groupage des barres et groupage des textes
- Refactoring du code de creation des barres pour eliminer les parties d'auteur inconnue (pour respect gpl)
- Ajout test de longueur sur les codes
- Ajout option demi hauteur
- Ajout Standard JAN13
- Ajout Standard EAN8

09/04/2007
- Passage des espaces en tab. Utilisation de l'editeur SciTE pour les futurs devt (Ce sera mieux que notepad)

03/02/2007
- Optimisation des barres / Plusieurs barres noires successives sont maintenant fusionnes en un seul rectangle

02/02/2007
- Ajout du type Arial pour la police sur l'impression du code numerique

CD

How to use .inx file

lineaire — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 07:59:38 CDT

You can find more information at
Inkscape wiki - Scripting howto

The .inx file is like header file and will hold some informations for the extension itself.
This file use the xml notation.
I will use the addnode extension to show the differents options I found.

<_name>Add Nodes</_name>
This is the name of the extension as it will be displayed in the menu.

<id>org.ekips.filter.addnodes</id>
I dont find the precise usage of this line. It don't seems to be necessary for the working of extension ???

<dependency type="executable" location="extensions">addnodes.py</dependency>
<dependency type="executable" location="extensions">inkex.py</dependency>
This is dependency the extension will need to work with. With the Python language also don't seems necessary ???

<param name="max" type="float" min="0.0" max="10000.0" text="Maximum segment length">10.0</param>
Here is a very interresting line. It will allow you to enter some parameter that will be passed to the python application.
This is the small popup window asking for parameter when you launch the extension.
I found the following value :

boolean
int
float
string
optiongroup - Return result will be the selected option name

description - Description text (Help...). See the funcplot.inx for more detail use
enum - I dont find usage for this one.
notebook - Allow use of tab index. See the funcplot.inx for more detail use

<effects-menu><submenu _name="Modify Path"></effects-menu>
Here is the submenu name where you will find the extension.
If the submenu does not already exist it will be created automatically.

<script>
<command reldir="extensions" interpreter="python">addnodes.py</command>
</script>
This is the name of the extension file that will be called and the programming language use for it.
Here is python.