Glabels3 labels with EAN barcodes in them
sixtyfive opened this issue · comments
Today I tried to open some of our (thousands of) label files created with Glabels3. It works fine except for the barcode, which is some form of EAN and doesn't get rendered at all in Glabels4 (EAN-13 if I right remember, but "barcode > style > type" doesn't have any kind of EAN at all). Instead there's an error message being displayed. Since I had "yes" everywhere in the configuration output, I'm wondering now if Glabels4 will drop support for EAN barcodes or if there is something that I could do differently to make them work?
gLabels-4 supports EAN natively and through the GNU Barcode and Zint backends, as seen in the following screenshots. For configuring these backends on GNU/Linux systems see https://github.com/jimevins/glabels-qt/blob/master/docs/BUILD-INSTRUCTIONS-LINUX.md
Thank you for the explanation and the screenshots, jimevins! I tried building on ArchLinux now and magically, there are many more barcode style types. So it seems that indeed my build on Solus is still missing some things. I'll try again and read the configure output more carefully then.
I too have had an issue where an updated version of Glabels3 was missing EAN support. I have looked at Glabels4 and although it has Glabels support this only seems to be for EAN13. I have been using EAN8 so the above mentioned native support does not help at all.