RB ships with a Barcode component installed. The icon looks (at least to me) like a little white house with a yellow roof, on the RB Standard Components toolbar. There is also a DBBarcode component on the Data Components toolbar.
I would like to jump in here with a similiar question for the "2D barcodes" topic. I would like to use a 2D Data Matrix Barcode Font (instead of a 3 of 9 Barcode Font) with my current end user bills RTM. This font will be scanned by a Bell & Howell or Pitney Bowes Folder/Inserter.
Does ReportBuilder have or support the 2D Data Matrix Font on its TppDBBarcode through the BarCodeType Property. Is there a specific site that anyone would recommend to retrieve this font from. I did find this font available at www.bizfonts.com.
For the barcodes that we don't support, you can create an image of the barcode, and print it in the report as an image. You could also create your own bar code component which can render a new bar code type in RB.
> Does ReportBuilder have or support the 2D Data Matrix Font on its
A 2D barcode is much more than just a font. 2D stands for 2 Dimensional (like a grid format), while text is always 1 Dimensional (sequential character format). A 2D barcode will require code to create the pattern which is then decoded by properly enabled readers. In other words you need a componant, not a font.
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me) like a little white house with a yellow roof, on the RB Standard
Components toolbar. There is also a DBBarcode component on the Data
Components toolbar.
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com
info@digital-metaphors.com
topic. I would like to use a 2D Data Matrix Barcode Font (instead of a 3 of
9 Barcode Font) with my current end user bills RTM. This font will be
scanned by a Bell & Howell or Pitney Bowes Folder/Inserter.
Does ReportBuilder have or support the 2D Data Matrix Font on its
TppDBBarcode through the BarCodeType Property. Is there a specific site
that anyone would recommend to retrieve this font from. I did find this
font available at www.bizfonts.com.
Thank you,
Vannie Keever
Gensoft Systems, Inc.
barcode, and print it in the report as an image. You could also create your
own bar code component which can render a new bar code type in RB.
Cheers,
Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com
info@digital-metaphors.com
A 2D barcode is much more than just a font. 2D stands for 2 Dimensional
(like a grid format), while text is always 1 Dimensional (sequential
character format). A 2D barcode will require code to create the pattern
which is then decoded by properly enabled readers. In other words you need
a componant, not a font.
Check out http://www.bellhawk.com/MXT/articles/MXT2Dbarcodes.htm for better
info.
Does anybody know such a component.
You might try
http://www.componentsource.com/BuyComponents/ProductCatalog/SearchResults.as
p?SC=CS&Browse=Y&GroupType=3&GroupCode=BARCOD
to find a component, or try the Delphi resources at:
http://www.borland.com/delphi/resources/delnet.html
Best Regards,
Terry Fehr