Zint Barcode Studio is a portable software for generating all sorts of barcodes with tons of options both in terms of code generation and the visual appearance. It supports more than fifty different types of barcode generation standards including the popular QR codes. It is a cross-platform tool and works flawlessly on Windows computers.
The program is open-source and the downloaded package contains both a command line interface (CLI) version and a graphical user interface (GUI) version of the software. Windows users who want to use the GUI version can just double-click on the qtZint.exe program.
The user interface of Zint Barcode Studio offers a large set of features through a tabbed interface. Near the top of the window, you will see the output – the generated barcodes. At the bottom the first tab lets to select a barcode type and enter the data that you want to use for generating the barcode. The second tab is used to change the barcode specific options and they change as you select a different type of barcode. The third tab lets you change the appearance of the generated barcode – foreground color, background color, borders, printing scale, and more.
The program gives you options to copy a BMP image format of the generated barcode to the clipboard that you can paste in any documents editor. Similarly, you can also copy the SVG format of the barcodes to the clipboard. You can also save the barcodes directly to a file and save it in a number of formats such as BMP, PNG, GIF, EPS, TIF, PCX, SVG, EMF etc.
Zint Barcode Studio covers all the barcodes that one can imagine including both the popular ones and the ones that are not so frequently used. It can be used to generate barcodes, print them and save them in a number of different image file formats.
You can download Zint Barcode Studio from https://sourceforge.net/projects/zint/.