On Jun 18, 2009, at 2:39 AM, Daniel James wrote:

I don't know how well it would work with a typical barcode scanner in a 

store - I guess most people in the 'first world' have had that 

experience where you get to the checkout and the barcode can't be 

scanned by the machine. Happily, Inkscape prints the human-readable 

number underneath the barcode, so it can be tapped in manually if 


One minor check you can do is to get someone with a camera phone and scanning app, and see if it picks up. The Android G1 does that, for example.