On 9/16/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been scouring the web looking for a good barcode font that will work > with my barcode scanner (an "intelliscanner", which reads standard Code 128 > barcodes).? > > The trouble I'm finding is that the barcode font I am using works great in > Windows, but the Mac version of it won't seem to display the first and last > characters of the formula when printing, so it never scans.
I use a Code 128 font from Riversedge <http://www.riversedge.com/> but it is about 10 years since I bought it so I can't tell if it is still the same. I bought it for OS 9, but it works fine in OS X. > > I found a great Rev. stack to demo barcode printing in the Rev archives, and > I noticed the formula for Code 128 barcodes puts a "numtochar(103+32) at the > beginning and numtochar(106+32) at the end.? On my Mac, these special > characters do not display anything in the barcode field.? In Windows, I get > the proper barcode chars to display at the beginning and end of the string.? > Not sure why.? I'm trying to determine if it's the barcode font itself (In > theory, it's the same between Mac and Windows), OR perhaps something > different in the way the Mac handles numtochar(103+32).? Any advice is > greatly appreciated. I think that might be my script, or if not, I use the same logic and only on Macs, never tried it on Windows. The Code 128 scheme uses a special header character, then the data, a checksum and a special footer. If you display it in a normal font, you will get some strange accented characters at the beginning & end - this is correct. Then you should see a consistent pattern at the start & end of each barcode when you display it using the barcode font. There are some differences between Mac & Windows characters I think. I wonder would using the MactoISO or ISOtoMac functions make any difference? It may be that these codes produce the right barcode on a real Mac font, but when using a Windows font on a Mac, things get mixed up. I'm not sure this is much help, but I can assure you that barcode printing & scanning does work on a Mac. Cheers, Sarah _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
