drawing a Barcode without a Barcode font

Bob Sneidar bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com
Fri Jul 20 17:19:47 EDT 2018



> On Jul 20, 2018, at 14:08 , Mark Wieder via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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> On 07/20/2018 04:31 AM, Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode wrote:
>> We tried here with iPhone and also with an USB scanner. Both devices scanned the code successfully.
>> I have just finished a program for shipment. It fetches customer and invoice data from the accounting software and creates then the shipment labels including a Code25i barcode and a QR code. The carrier is Trans-o-Flex. I need to send some sample labels to their IT department. They will check if the labels are readable by their scanners. But i am now confident, that this will work on their side also.
> 
> Cool. I played around with Mattias' version of Mike's excellent code a bit. Here's my take. Note that you really only need one graphic image to work with - here's how to do it with a single invisible filled rectangle graphic (I kept the name "narrowB"). This takes a string of numbers and generates the intermediate string and bar code.
> <snip>

THIS is one for the master library!

Bob S






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