%D \module %D [ file=m-zint, %D version=2010.12.07, %D title=\CONTEXT\ Extra Modules, %D subtitle=Zint Barcode Generator, %D author=Hans Hagen, %D date=\currentdate, %D copyright={PRAGMA ADE \& \CONTEXT\ Development Team}] %C %C This module is part of the \CONTEXT\ macro||package and is %C therefore copyrighted by \PRAGMA. See mreadme.pdf for %C details. %D Using \type {zint} seems to be the easiest way to generate (PDF417) barcodes so %D therefore we now have this module. There are proper (also windows) binaries at: %D %D \starttyping %D http://www.zint.org.uk %D \stoptyping %D %D There is a bit more code than needed as we want to be able to feed names. \startluacode moduledata.zint = { } local format, lower, gsub = string.format, string.lower, string.gsub local patterns = lpeg.patterns local zint = "zint" -- '"c:/program files/zint/zint.exe"' local defaultcode = "PDF417" local whitespace = patterns.whitespace local spaces = whitespace^0 local key = (spaces / "") * patterns.digit^0 * (patterns.colon * spaces / "") local value = (whitespace / "" + (1 - key))^1 local pattern = lpeg.Cf(lpeg.Ct("") * (lpeg.Cg((lpeg.Cs(key) / tonumber) * (lpeg.Cs(value) / lower)) + patterns.anything)^0,rawset) local reverse local function cleancode(code) if not code or code == "" then code = defaultcode end return lower(gsub(code," ","")) end local function numberofcode(code) if not reverse then local types = os.resultof(format("%s --types",zint)) or "" local formats = lpeg.match(pattern,types) if not formats or not next(formats) then return code end reverse = table.swapped(formats) or { } end code = cleancode(code) return reverse[code] or code end function moduledata.zint.generate(code,data,suffix,options) if not data or data == "" then data = "unset" end local code = cleancode(code) local base = format("zint-%s-%s",code,md5.hex(data)) local name = file.addsuffix(base,suffix or "eps") if not lfs.isfile(name) then local temp = file.addsuffix(base,"tmp") local code = numberofcode(code) io.savedata(temp,data) local command = format('%s --barcode=%s %s --output="%s" --input="%s"',zint,code,options or "",name,temp) logs.simple("using 'zint' to generate '%s'",base) logs.simple("command '%s'",command) print(command) os.execute(command) os.remove(temp) end return name end \stopluacode \unprotect \unexpanded\def\barcode[#1]% [alternative=,text=] {\bgroup \getdummyparameters [\c!alternative=,\c!text=,\c!suffix=eps,\c!option=,#1]% \externalfigure [\cldcontext{moduledata.zint.generate("\dummyparameter\c!alternative",\!!bs\dummyparameter\c!text\!!es,"\dummyparameter\c!suffix","\dummyparameter\c!option")}]% [#1,\c!option=,\c!alternative=,\c!text=]% \egroup} \protect \continueifinputfile{m-zint.mkiv} \starttext % \externalfigure[\cldcontext{moduledata.zint.generate("PDF417",[[Hans Hagen]])}] % \blank % \externalfigure[\cldcontext{moduledata.zint.generate("PDF417","Ton Otten")}] % \blank % \externalfigure[\cldcontext{moduledata.zint.generate("ISBN","9789490688011")}] % \blank % \barcode[text=Does It Work?,width=\textwidth] % \blank % \barcode[alternative=isbn,text=9789490688011,width=3cm] % \blank % \barcode[alternative=datamatrix,text=whatever,width=3cm,option=--square,suffix=png] \barcode[alternative=maxicode,text=whatever,width=3cm,suffix=png] \stoptext