Golang : Generate Datamatrix barcode
Datamatrix barcode is popular in the electronics, technology, arts and food industry as a way to mark small items. As it can encode up to 50 characters comparing to other barcode standards.
We will learn how to generate data matrix barcode in this tutorial. Code example adapted from previous barcode tutorials.
Here you go :
package main
import (
"fmt"
"github.com/boombuler/barcode"
"github.com/boombuler/barcode/datamatrix"
"github.com/disintegration/imaging"
"github.com/llgcode/draw2d"
"image"
"image/color"
"image/draw"
"os"
)
func main() {
code := "Datamatrix for Socketloop.com"
fmt.Println("Generating Datamatrix barcode for : ", code)
// see https://godoc.org/github.com/boombuler/barcode/datamatrix
bcode, err := datamatrix.Encode(code)
if err != nil {
fmt.Printf("String %s cannot be encoded\n", code)
os.Exit(1)
}
// scale to 100x100
bcode, err = barcode.Scale(bcode, 100, 100)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("Datamatrix scaling error : ", err)
os.Exit(1)
}
// now we want to append the code at the bottom
// of the Codabar
// Create an new image with text data
// From https://github.com/llgcode/draw2d.samples/tree/master/helloworld
// Set the global folder for searching fonts
draw2d.SetFontFolder(".")
// Initialize the graphic context on an RGBA image
img := image.NewRGBA(image.Rect(0, 0, 250, 50))
// set background to white
white := color.RGBA{255, 255, 255, 255}
draw.Draw(img, img.Bounds(), &image.Uniform{white}, image.ZP, draw.Src)
gc := draw2d.NewGraphicContext(img)
gc.FillStroke()
// Set the font Montereymbi.ttf
gc.SetFontData(draw2d.FontData{"Monterey", draw2d.FontFamilyMono, draw2d.FontStyleBold | draw2d.FontStyleItalic})
// Set the fill text color to black
gc.SetFillColor(image.Black)
gc.SetFontSize(14)
gc.FillStringAt(code, 50, 20)
// create a new blank image with white background
newImg := imaging.New(400, 200, color.NRGBA{255, 255, 255, 255})
//paste the codabar to new blank image
newImg = imaging.Paste(newImg, bcode, image.Pt(150, 30))
//paste the text to the new blank image
newImg = imaging.Paste(newImg, img, image.Pt(50, 150))
err = draw2d.SaveToPngFile("./datamatrix.png", newImg)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
os.Exit(1)
}
// everything ok
fmt.Println("Datamatrix barcode generated and saved to datamatrix.png")
}
Sample output :
References :
See also : Golang : How to generate Code 39 barcode?
By Adam Ng
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