Re: Generate bar codes EAN13 and others
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Josep wrote: > > Hi, > > Any tip about generate bar codes from Rev? I downloaded some fonts to print > EAN13. I need perform some calc or can I use directly with the font? > What standard or generic bar code can I use? or is the prefered? I have scripts to generate Code 128 bar codes with the correct headers & footers. Then you need a Code 128 font to display them. If this is any use to you, let me know and I can post the scripts. Cheers, Sarah ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Generate bar codes EAN13 and others
Josep, not sure what you are doing. Is that you are trying to print bar code labels, when you already have the fonts installed? Or are you trying to use the bar codes by having Rev react to receiving those codes? To be a bit more helpful than simply asking questions, we use a word processor or presentation package to lay out and print codes from fonts. We use free downloaded fonts, being very poor. If we want to generate bar codes in a font we don't have, we use kbarcode, which is a Linux application, and this generates the font and also does label printing. KDE is in the process of being ported to Windows, not sure of its status right now. As to which one to use, the main difference seems to be how compact they are. If you use 3 of 9 you end up with perfectly usable codes, but it is rather spread out so the codes may not fit on small labels. We use 128c for small labels. The only thing to be aware of when using fonts is the need for start/stop characters to precede and follow the code, and they are different for Mac, Linux and Windows. It is an asterisk in Linux, an exclamation mark in Windows, don't know about Mac. A code generation package will supply these. The other small tip that might be useful is that if you are generating bar codes, you might be tempted to ouput them as jpegs or some other graphical format. If you do this you can drop them into a word processing package, resize them, do layouts and print them. But they mostly won't work because the graphics processing distorts the font sufficiently to mess up reading. At least, that was our experience, so we now either print directly from the code generating package, or use a real font in the word processor. We print labels on an ordinary laser printer. In terms of using them, we just use a wedge bar code reader. The bar codes are received by Rev as the corresponding human readable keyboard characters. Does this answer the question at all? Peter Josep wrote: > > Hi, > > Any tip about generate bar codes from Rev? I downloaded some fonts to > print EAN13. I need perform some calc or can I use directly with the font? > What standard or generic bar code can I use? or is the prefered? > > Salut, > Josep > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Generate-bar-codes-EAN13-and-others-tp23990319p23994078.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Generate bar codes EAN13 and others
Hi Josep, Quartam Reports supports a number of barcode formats, without the need for special fonts. You can use them both on reports and label sets. I have been contemplating making the barcodes available as a separate 'library' object. If anyone is interested, just drop me an email - the higher the tally, the more likely it happens. Best regards, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports & PDF Library for Revolution <http://www.quartam.com> = "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." (La Rochefoucauld) --- On Thu, 6/11/09, Josep wrote: > From: Josep > Subject: Generate bar codes EAN13 and others > To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Date: Thursday, June 11, 2009, 3:54 PM > > Hi, > > Any tip about generate bar codes from Rev? I downloaded > some fonts to print > EAN13. I need perform some calc or can I use directly with > the font? > What standard or generic bar code can I use? or is the > prefered? > > Salut, > Josep > ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
RE: Generate bar codes EAN13 and others
> Any tip about generate bar codes from Rev? I downloaded some > fonts to print EAN13. I need perform some calc or can I use > directly with the font? > What standard or generic bar code can I use? or is the prefered? Valentina Reports has support for EAN barcoding, but it means generating the data from a Valentina database. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Paradigma Software http://www.paradigmasoft.com Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Generate bar codes EAN13 and others
Hi, Any tip about generate bar codes from Rev? I downloaded some fonts to print EAN13. I need perform some calc or can I use directly with the font? What standard or generic bar code can I use? or is the prefered? Salut, Josep -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Generate-bar-codes-EAN13-and-others-tp23990319p23990319.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
