John R. Culleton wrote: > On Monday 11 June 2007 11:21, Gregory Pittman wrote: > > >> I'm going to play around with this, not because I have any use for >> ISBN barcodes, but just for the intellectual challenge. They're >> quite complex (!), and one of the more interesting asides is that >> one wonders if there is a mild "conspiracy" to not let people make >> them themselves. Googling results in a multitude of sites to do >> this for you, or buy software to do this for you. >> Thank God for Wikipedia! >> >> > Well with bookland.py you _are_ making it yourself. Someone has > produced the tool and is giving it away. If you can't handle keying > in a simple bookland.py command the same party will produce the > barcode for you online, again for free. All the specs are public > domain. If you want to reinvent this particular wheel have at it. > No wikapedia needed in this case. > > There is no conspiracy. Indeed there is less here than meets the eye. > Here is the tool. It works. It is free. It is better than the tool > that comes with Scribus. Use it if you like. > On the other hand, there isn't anything about the code that Scribus can't generate itself with a script with output to the page. And if I make it, I'll give it away. Like I said, I don't have any use for it. The specs are indeed public domain, they're just not as easy to find as you might think.
Greg - the Don Quixote of script writing
