Re: Barcode plugin for RealBasic

[Eric Williams <eric@oxalyn.com>]

On Dec 30, 2008, at 5:53 AM, Robert Lawrence wrote:

> Why would you need a special plugin for this?  I print bar codes  
> all the
> time and use only just a barcode truetype font.  code39 is simple just
> "print" an asterisk followed by the value and then another  
> asterisk, i.e.
> "*12345*".  The asterisk is ued as a way of indicating the start /  
> end of
> the barcode.
>
> http://www.idautomation.com/fonts/free/#Download_Free_Barcode_Font   
> <-- free
> font and a brief description on how to use it.
This is good for Code 39 barcodes, but Code 128 barcode fonts require  
the data to be encoded first - almost like a text encoding.
Eric Williams
Oxalyn Software
http://software.oxalyn.com/

AE Monitor
http://software.oxalyn.com/AEMonitor/


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