Barcode icon
Friday, 5 March 2010 15:19I really need to update my “barcode” icon for Dreamwidth at some point… it includes my LiveJournal numeric userid and the ascii codes for “LJ” in it; those should get changes to my Dreamwidth userid and the code for “DW”.
Or is there someone with too much time on their hands who'd make the change for me? :D The full number is “767407257160", which would have to become “688700207914” (68 = ‘D’, 87 = ‘W’, 20791 = my DW userid, 4 = check digit). I'm afraid I don't know for sure which barcode encoding/symbology was used, though it looks very likely to me that it's UPC(-A). (Could also be the EAN representation of “0767407257160”, in which case the DW version would be “0688700207914”.)
Also, the original barcode I got years ago from whichever creator it was (maybe from
mart?) placed the first plaintext digit to the left of the start bars and the last (check) digit to the right of the start bars; I had to lop both of them off when converting to an icon since they were outside the 100 pixel width. But they could be written underneath the first and last barcode digits, respectively, I suppose.
Edit: Done! I used Unifont for the characters, which is perhaps not quite as pretty as the original, but it's what I had easily.
For comparison, here are the old and new icons:
Now I just need to add a Semacode/Datamatrix icon for http://pne.dreamwidth.org/ to replace (or complement) the one I have to http://pne.livejournal.com/.
Done!