Food waste is a problem for several reasons. It is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. When food waste ends up in landfills, it decomposes and releases methane gas, which is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. Food waste is a waste of valuable resources such as water, energy, and land.…
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Organizations using UPC barcodes on their packaging should prepare for the GS1 Digital Link. There are several examples of companies using the GS1 Digital Link standard in place of UPC barcodes. For instance, Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) has implemented the GS1 Digital Link to provide consumers with access to product information and promotions for its…
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As a leader in the barcode generation software field, IDAutomation is constantly working to update our barcode fonts, components and software applications to meet the latest standard specifications as well as compatibility requirements for common and popular environments like Crystal Reports, Access, Oracle, FileMaker, SSRS and many others. As such, we are pleased to announce…
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FileMaker is a powerful database application that makes it easy for businesses to process invoices, inventory and much more. For years, IDAutomation has provided these same businesses with Plug-ins and components to generate and display barcodes in FileMaker. Now that process of generating barcodes has become even easier with our latest font encoder tool, the…
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IDAutomation has released the latest update to their Code128 Font Advantage Package, and it is now available in both demo and purchased versions from IDAutomation.com. This package includes some new features and changes that are not available in the prior version, released in September 2013: TrueType font files have been updated to OpenType with Digital…
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August saw the release of IDAutomations’ highly-anticipated FileMaker Pro Plugin, a new font encoder tool that allows barcode generation from fonts in FileMaker. This powerful encoder is included in the Font and Encoder packages for Data Matrix and PDF417 and will soon be included in the font packages for QR Code as well. Initially updated…
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by Nate Schubert Barcode fonts have long since been the favorite of businesses throughout the world because their flexibility allows use across a wide variety of applications and environments. For example, all IDAutomation font packages include TrueType, Open Type, PCL, and PostScript font formats. Additionally, these fonts may be used in conjunction with any of…
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In an effort to listen to and resolve the concerns of our customers, IDAutomation has recently updated it’s Code 39 Barcode Font Advantage Package that allows encoding of the space bar character. Previously, encoding a space character could be accomplished by typing the = sign. While it’s true that the update seems to just replace…
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by Nate Schubert To date, it has been difficult to embed barcode capabilities into many software applications because these applications generally required barcode fonts or graphical barcode objects to be installed on each workstation in order to see and print the barcode. However, after years of working with the United States Patent and Trademark Office,…
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