Anyone get barcodes to print/scan on a Mac?

[Peter Alcibiades]

Not on a Mac, but on Linux, but the issue might be the same.  

The problem might be the start/stop character.  When you use a TT barcode font  
you have to manually put in the start/stop character.  In Windows it is ! and 
in Linux its *.

I've done this fine with a 3of9 free font from IDAutomation, and it seems to 
work at whatever font size used.  I simply type in the desired code and then 
precede and follow it with * after which it works fine.  But if the keyboard 
wedge were to be used to read data into a Windows program, one would have to 
precede and follow with ! 

I've also used a barcode generator.

The problem I met here was generating barcodes as images and then resizing 
them.  When resized they mostly did not work.  However, when generated from 
the generating application (kbarcode) in the appropriate size, they always 
work.

Peter