John,
Yes, it is available in a font. The font is called PDF417, I believe. This sounds like the direction I may want to go in. Can you elaborate on how I could do that? We have ActivePDF installed on our server, could I do it using that? However, we can't just take plain text and apply the font to it. The plain text gets encoded into a series of binary "words" I believe. (I think it's the right terminology.... a binary string of 16 bits). Some guy came up with a formula that does the encoding. The formula itself is open source, and there's a SourceForge project out there, that claims to convert a text string to the 2D barcode. I downloaded it and ran their sample app, and all it does is convert the text into WingDings. That was one dead-end. Next, I found the website of some French dude that posted the entire formula for creating 2D barcodes. But since I'm not a PhD in Discrete Math, nor in Computer Science, it was way above my understanding/abilities/comprehension. Otherwise, I believe we may be able to use Coldfusion to generate the barcode if we can decipher the formula. Here's the guy's website: http://grandzebu.net/informatique/codbar-en/pdf417.htm <http://grandzebu.net/informatique/codbar-en/pdf417.htm> He too claims to have a tool to encode plain text into a barcode. I downloaded it and ran it and all it did was convert my text into WingDings. So I don't know how much we can trust the formula he posts. However it looks confusing enough to be trusted :S Thanks, Ali -----Original Message----- From: Burns, John D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 8:09 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Generating BarCodes in CF Is that format available in a font? If so, you could install the font on the server and generate PDF docs with the bar code in that font. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:201514 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
