Re: ColdFusion to make bar codes
Ahh .. sorry. I forgot to mention that. I'm just used to developing for Intranet settings where stuff like that usually isn't a problem :) Todd Ashworth - Original Message - From: "Top-Link Tech (John Ceci)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 12:39 PM Subject: RE: ColdFusion to make bar codes | Side note to Todd's response, the user will have to have the font installed | to see it properly... ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: ColdFusion to make bar codes
why not make them out of a series of 1x1 pixel gifs? make 1 black gif and 1 white gif stretch them dynamically to the size since they would be 1x1 pixels they wont distort (nothing to distort), and add more of them if necessary (dynamically of course), that way it'll be good cross - browsers and you can get those tiny little areas -Original Message- From: Phoeun Pha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 10:26 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: ColdFusion to make bar codes Hey guys, i need some resources on how bar codes are made, and the exact width and height and spaces between the bars. I want to make those bar codes out of tables. ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Re: ColdFusion to make bar codes
There is a bar code font out there called "3 of 9". You just output your number, specify 3of9 as your font, and you have an instant bar code. Todd Ashworth - Original Message - From: "Phoeun Pha" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 11:26 AM Subject: ColdFusion to make bar codes | Hey guys, i need some resources on how bar codes are made, and the exact | width and height and spaces between the bars. I want to make those bar | codes out of tables. | | ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: ColdFusion to make bar codes
Try this for starters: http://www.barcodehq.com/primer.html -Original Message- From: Phoeun Pha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 10:26 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: ColdFusion to make bar codes Hey guys, i need some resources on how bar codes are made, and the exact width and height and spaces between the bars. I want to make those bar codes out of tables. ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: ColdFusion to make bar codes
try the bar-code talk list. -Original Message- From: Phoeun Pha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 8:26 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: ColdFusion to make bar codes Hey guys, i need some resources on how bar codes are made, and the exact width and height and spaces between the bars. I want to make those bar codes out of tables. ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: ColdFusion to make bar codes
Using the bar code font is pretty neat. The thing is, the client also have to download that font to be able to view it. having coldfusion spit out gif files, what an idea! Now, i just have to know how bar codes work. any help? i mean what are the sizes and what is the spacing? stuff like that -Original Message- From: Todd Ashworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 10:33 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: ColdFusion to make bar codes There is a bar code font out there called "3 of 9". You just output your number, specify 3of9 as your font, and you have an instant bar code. Todd Ashworth - Original Message - From: "Phoeun Pha" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 11:26 AM Subject: ColdFusion to make bar codes | Hey guys, i need some resources on how bar codes are made, and the exact | width and height and spaces between the bars. I want to make those bar | codes out of tables. | | ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: ColdFusion to make bar codes
Side note to Todd's response, the user will have to have the font installed to see it properly... -Original Message- From: Todd Ashworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 10:33 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: ColdFusion to make bar codes There is a bar code font out there called "3 of 9". You just output your number, specify 3of9 as your font, and you have an instant bar code. Todd Ashworth - Original Message - From: "Phoeun Pha" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 11:26 AM Subject: ColdFusion to make bar codes | Hey guys, i need some resources on how bar codes are made, and the exact | width and height and spaces between the bars. I want to make those bar | codes out of tables. | | ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: ColdFusion to make bar codes
you don't need the font on the client machine. you can use a CFX tag to load the server's fonts and export as an image. i did that to make an app that lets you create business cards using server-side fonts. -Original Message- From: Phoeun Pha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 8:41 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: ColdFusion to make bar codes Using the bar code font is pretty neat. The thing is, the client also have to download that font to be able to view it. having coldfusion spit out gif files, what an idea! Now, i just have to know how bar codes work. any help? i mean what are the sizes and what is the spacing? stuff like that -Original Message- From: Todd Ashworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 10:33 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: ColdFusion to make bar codes There is a bar code font out there called "3 of 9". You just output your number, specify 3of9 as your font, and you have an instant bar code. Todd Ashworth - Original Message - From: "Phoeun Pha" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 11:26 AM Subject: ColdFusion to make bar codes | Hey guys, i need some resources on how bar codes are made, and the exact | width and height and spaces between the bars. I want to make those bar | codes out of tables. | | ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: ColdFusion to make bar codes
At 10:40 AM 12/11/00 -0600, you wrote: Using the bar code font is pretty neat. The thing is, the client also have to download that font to be able to view it. having coldfusion spit out gif files, what an idea! Now, i just have to know how bar codes work. any help? i mean what are the sizes and what is the spacing? stuff like that Actually, that's what the bar code fonts do. They create the spacing and the sizes and stuff like that. I forget exactly what information is supposed to go into a bar code and if it has to be an a particular order (which I suspect is true). The best way to go about this is probably to open the font in a font making program and checking all of the widths. You're going to want to emulate the font, so you might as well dissect it if you can't find the information on the link Jeremy Ridout sent. ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: ColdFusion to make bar codes
http://www.adams1.com/pub/russadam/info.html#Specs Joe Hoffman mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] National Institutes of Health Center for Information Technology Division of Computer System Services -Original Message- From: Phoeun Pha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 11:26 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: ColdFusion to make bar codes Hey guys, i need some resources on how bar codes are made, and the exact width and height and spaces between the bars. I want to make those bar codes out of tables. ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Re: ColdFusion to make bar codes
You can embedd the font using CSS though, so you just have to have the font on the server. - Original Message - From: "Top-Link Tech (John Ceci)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 12:39 PM Subject: RE: ColdFusion to make bar codes Side note to Todd's response, the user will have to have the font installed to see it properly... -Original Message- From: Todd Ashworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 10:33 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: ColdFusion to make bar codes There is a bar code font out there called "3 of 9". You just output your number, specify 3of9 as your font, and you have an instant bar code. Todd Ashworth - Original Message - From: "Phoeun Pha" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 11:26 AM Subject: ColdFusion to make bar codes | Hey guys, i need some resources on how bar codes are made, and the exact | width and height and spaces between the bars. I want to make those bar | codes out of tables. | | ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: ColdFusion to make bar codes
It sounds like you want to roll your own code on this but I just wanted to let you know in case you were not aware, there are a few barcode Custom Tags available. Ive used two different ones and they both work excellent. The two Ive used both use images, one of the tags even lets you display the BC vertically. -Adrian ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Re: ColdFusion to make bar codes
I'd suggest you contact the barcode association in your area. There is a lot more to the production of barcodes than just bars and spaces. There are complex algorithms for check digits, bars that have to be present if certain conditions are there etc. Also the ratio of black to white spaces, height to width of the bars and gaps etc. There is a rather arcane and sleep-inducing book here in Australia, and I assume wherever you are too. There are many systems of barcodes and you need the exact specs of the system you want to use. If you are wanting to print barcodes, I'd be more inclined to think in terms of having barcode printers and sending the printercodes with the page (people who wrestled with dot matrix printers in the old DOS days will know what I mean). Cheers, Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Web Development On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Phoeun Pha wrote: Hey guys, i need some resources on how bar codes are made, and the exact width and height and spaces between the bars. I want to make those bar codes out of tables. ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
