EAN128 Barcode support

rbuser

Does RB9 support the EAN128 barcode type ? Or will the next RB7.0x support
it ? The lack of support for this type in an otherwise very useful barcode
component is causing my company grief. Is there any reason a fairly common
barcode type is not supported ?

Andr? F?rstenrecht

nicocizik

Hi Andre,

Thanks for your feedback. In the future if we find there is a significant
demand for EAN128, we will definitely consider adding support for it. As
for now, below is an article that may help you work around this limitation.

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Tech Tip: UCC/EAN 128 Barcode Generation
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ReportBuilder's support for the Code 128 barcode symbology can be used to
print UCC\EAN 128 barcodes.
Code 128 is general purpose symbology that can be used to generate UCC/EAN
128 barcodes.

1. Here is a link that came up when I searched in Google. It is for another
barcode product, but it explains the symbology.

http://www.idautomation.com/code128faq.html#EAN128andUCC128

2. The TppBarCode component contains an AutoEncode property that defaults to
True. To support UCC/EAN 128 you will need set AutoEncode to False and
manually encode the data. See the AutoEncode topic in the RBuilder.hlp. From
there you can access a related topic on manually encoding Code 128 data.

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com