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Old 06-26-2002
Question how to print barcodes?
Hello All,

I need to print barcodes on reports being generated/printed on a Unix server. I think I can do this using a combination of PCL and TrueType fonts, but I'm not exactly sure how. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Any help would be appreciated...
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Old 07-26-2002
If you are using PCL you just have to send the PCL commands to a file and print this file thru a PCL print driver. Which i guess your are already using.

Offcourse the trick is to generate the PCL commands. We did this for EAN13 and EAN8 using our 4GL language but you can use any language or even scripts.

example of such code in our 4GL:

ASSIGN pEAN13ControlStr = pEAN13ControlStr + "~033"
+ "*p"
+ STRING(pColX)
+ "x"
+ STRING(pRowY)
+ "Y"
+
IF SUBSTRING( CodeTekst, t, 1) = "1"
THEN "~033*c"
+ STRING(pi-Breedte)
+ "a"
+ STRING(pi-Hoogte)
+ "b0P"
ELSE ""


You see, iam using *p and x,y. These ares simple PCL commands that put the pencil down at coördinates x,y and draws a line.

The logic you must program yourself.

Good luck
J
# 3  
Old 07-28-2002
Re: how to print barcodes?
Quote:
Originally posted by gdrumb
Hello All,

I need to print barcodes on reports being generated/printed on a Unix server. I think I can do this using a combination of PCL and TrueType fonts, but I'm not exactly sure how. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Any help would be appreciated...
You should be able to use the TrueType Font barcodes without any problems. The key is to know the delimiter characters (it has been so long that I have forgotten, but might be tilde...?) otherwise the barcode readers will not be able to read the barcodes.
# 4  
Old 07-30-2002
Thanks for the help...
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