RE: EAN-8

2007-01-24 Thread James Smith
> Might be overkill too, I guess. I AM an overkill kinda guy... > but you knever know- EAN128 could be just around the corner... ;] Actually EAN-128 is an improper name for GS1-128 which is a standard within the "Code 128" standard which like 3 of 9 allows the full ASCII character set to be encod

Re: EAN-8

2007-01-24 Thread Denny Valliant
On 1/24/07, James Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > EAN-8 is easy using 2 functions I wrote... Holy crap! What's code doing on this list? LOL. (I've read some of the archives... community changes, neh? :) Thanks for posting the functions, James. Made it super clear. H

RE: EAN-8

2007-01-24 Thread James Smith
> Am piqued as to how you've used CF to do it tho- surely not > using HTML? EAN-8 is easy using 2 functions I wrote... if (len(trim(barcode)) GT 7) { return "Error: To many digits";

Re: EAN-8

2007-01-23 Thread Denny Valliant
On 1/23/07, James Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I thought only code 39 was "fontable". Don't you need > > special SW to do the checksums and such for the others? > > EAN-8, EAN-13 and UPC are all "fontable", you do need to calculate >

RE: EAN-8

2007-01-23 Thread James Smith
> I thought only code 39 was "fontable". Don't you need > special SW to do the checksums and such for the others? EAN-8, EAN-13 and UPC are all "fontable", you do need to calculate checksums, and even then the digits to the left and right of the centre use at lea

Re: EAN-8

2007-01-22 Thread Denny Valliant
On 1/22/07, James Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been using a truetype font to produce EAN-13 barcodes for some time [...] I thought only code 39 was "fontable". Don't you need special SW to do the checksums and such for the others?

EAN-8

2007-01-22 Thread James Smith
I have been using a truetype font to produce EAN-13 barcodes for some time now with great success, I now have a need to produce some EAN-8 barcodes and unfortunately even though the characters are the same my EAN-13 font won't work due to my EAN-13 font encoding the left hand guide bars a