Yes, I believe you are right. Being American, EAN passed over my head without notice. https://commerce.bowker.com/BarCode/faqs.asp
Some places are offering to sell bar codes at around $5US apiece:( It does look like some we can easily generate our selves at no cost. david On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Sean DALY <[email protected]> wrote: > if you're referring to the actual number, I think an ISBN number is > just a special case of an EAN-13 number, which this page seems to > confirm: http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/isbn/transition.asp > > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Sean DALY <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have achieved excellent results with GNU barcode, I used a simple >> bash script to generate PDFs for label sheets to inventory several >> thousand videocassettes. >> >> I can find the script tomorrow, I think there was a PS to PDF step or >> an imagemagick call but the magic is in barcode itself which does >> EAN-13 and most if not all of the encodings used in business. >> >> Sean. >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:37 PM, David Farning <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> The next issues is the barcord. Does anyone have information this to >>> get me started? >>> >>> It looks like amazon and the other large distributors require one. Is >>> this a ISBN bar code? or something else? >>> >>> david >>> _______________________________________________ >>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >>> >> > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
