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PDF417 Installation Guide
NeoMedia Technologies, Inc. Page 7
UNIX Installation
It is highly recommended that the installation of the PDF417 encoder be performed by a skilled
System Administrator with intimate knowledge of your UNIX environment. The instructions that
follow are written in a general sense and will work on most UNIX systems. However, due to the
wide and varied UNIX configurations available, it is impossible to provide concise instructions
for all possible scenarios. Some of the instructions may therefore require customization.
Requirements
The encoder is supported for use with the following products:
• C/C++
• ACUCOBOL
• Micro Focus COBOL
After completing the installation, the PDF417 encoder will be available as a static library that can
then be linked with your applications. While linking and running the encoder with products other
than those listed above may be possible, these types of configurations are not supported by
NeoMedia Technologies.
Preparing for Installation
The PDF417 encoder is distributed as a standard tar archive. The archive consists of a root
directory, pdf417, with the following five sub-directories.
The first directory, pdf417/lib, contains the PDF417 encoder static library (.a) and C header
files which will need to be included in your application.
The second directory, pdf417/sample, contains a variety of resources for the programmer,
including sample programs, callback function definition source files, and C header files.
The third directory, pdf417/acu, contains the ACUCOBOL specific files required for building
an ACUCOBOL runtime and a shell script to compile a COBOL program.
The fourth directory, pdf417/mf, contains the Micro Focus COBOL specific files required for
building a Micro Focus COBOL runtime and a shell script to compile a COBOL program.
The fifth directory, pdf417/fontbin, contains a directory ../hp which contains the font
binary files for HP PCL printers and the directory../afpos2 which contains the font binary
files for OS2 AFP printers.
Installing the Encoder
The installation media for UNIX is in tar archive format. Use tar with the appropriate device for
your system to extract the files. The following example is for extracting from a floppy disk on an
SCO UNIX system:
% umask 0
% tar xvf /dev/rfd0 .
The following tables list the contents of each of the directories: