Bar Code Generation and Reading

[Peter Alcibiades]

OK, victory!  In the interests of saving anyone else a struggle...

When, in Linux, you install a bar code font into OO using spadmin, it doesn't 
work.  The font looks like it is there but it isn't.  What you have to use is 
kfontview.  This less than obvious tool opens up a window so small that the 
install button is obscured in the bottom right corner so you could be 
forgiven for thinking it is just a font viewer.  But you make it bigger and 
the install button magically shows up.

Once you find this out, and do install, the display in OO works just fine, and 
lo and behold you can type your fonts.  You can even see what you are typing 
because the ascii appears below the ID Automation ones at least.

Amazing how complicated such a simple thing can be.

Have to say that Rev with a wedge works so simply and easily, given you can 
get the codes to work, its surprising bar code applications are so scarce and 
so expensive.  There is an opportunity here for you professionals.

Peter