I reported the following to the inkscape-devel list: I think I found the cause, a bug in the plugin. If you select Barcode Type as EAN13 and enter 13 digits into the Barcode Data field, which is correct according to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Article_Number you get the error as shown in the Launchpad ticket. If you enter any number of digits other than 12 or 13, it warns: Can not encode '97819050823' into EAN13 Barcode, Size must be 12 numbers only No barcode was generated However if you enter the first 12 digits of an ISBN-13, Inkscape will generate a bogus EAN-13 barcode, which will probably not scan in book stores because it has the final checksum digit missing. I think there's been a mix-up between 12 digit UPC barcodes and 13 digit EAN-13 barcodes used for book ISBN's. Sorry if this is too obvious and you knew about the problem already. If anyone has a barcode scanner available, I would love to do some quality control testing on this feature, because once it's printed on the back of the book, it's too late to change :-) -- barcode extension: crash for EAN13 (no 'computeChecksum') https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/334073 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
