EAN128 Barcode

rbuser

Hi,

I need to create a report with a barcode of the popular EAN128 format.
Using dbbarcode I can see its close relative Code128, and younger siblings
EAN13 and EAN8.

How do I add EAN128 support ? esp the checksum and application identifiers
are very important.

Kind Regards,
Graham

nicocizik

Hi Graham,

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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

rbuser

Hi Nico,

Are you sure this works ? When I compare the barcode with that produced by
a specialist barcode printer it looks like the bars are different. Also the
human readable text doesn't put brackets around the application identifiers
?

Kind Regards,
Graham