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Mail-Merge Returns Full Row of Data

idautomation — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 18:55:49 +0000

This issue only arises when using Excel as the data source for a Microsoft Word mail merge where the data is in an Excel column that contains a formula for IDAutomation’s Code 128 Barcode Fonts, and there is data in the columns to the right of that column. The issue arises when any column in…
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‘Double Byte’ Characters not displaying

idautomation — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 18:48:01 +0000

Applies to: Code 128 Barcode Fonts Interleaved 2 of 5 Fonts Solution(s): This problem only occurs in “Double Byte Windows” such as in versions of Microsoft Windows that display Japanese or Chinese characters. When in a double-byte environment, an excellent alternative would be to use IDAutomation’s Universal Barcode Font Advantage, which creates linear barcodes as…
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Code 128 Barcodes created with Crystal UFL or Windows DLL not scannable

idautomation — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 14:40:08 +0000

Affected products are Code 128 Barcode Fonts that use Code128Auto Functions and UCC128 Functions in the Crystal UFL and the Native Windows Font DLL, distributed from June 2005 to September 1, 2005 with file names and dates as follows: U25IDAutomation.dll 6-22-2005 or any date before September, 2005 IDAutomationNativeFontEncoder.dll 7-08-2005 or any date before September, 2005…
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RTF doc using C128, ITF or I2of5 causes errors

idautomation — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 19:40:48 +0000

This error was discovered by someone using IDAutomation’s Crystal Reports Barcode Font UFL to create reports with the Interleaved 2 of 5 Barcode Fonts. The error occurred while exporting the report to an RTF file and then importing the file into Microsoft® Word. During the import, any barcode containing the number ’90’ would cause Word to generate an…
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Printing Extended Characters with Barcode Fonts

idautomation — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 19:18:03 +0000

Solution(s): This solution may be used if the target font has extended ASCII characters, such as Interleaved 2of5, OCR-A or Code 128. To print extended ASCII characters that are not defined on the keyboard, try one of these methods: When barcode fonts are being used, implement one of IDAutomation’s barcode font encoders designed to automatically format the data to…
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Remove Check Digit from HR C128 Fonts

idautomation — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:38:23 +0000

Solution(s): It is not usually possible to remove or exclude the checksum character from the human-readable versions of Code-128 barcode fonts because the checksum is a barcode character, so it will always print out when the human-readable text is printed. If human-readable text is required, it is suggested that the application be changed to a…
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Empty boxes appear in Code 128 or ITF barcode when using Fonts

idautomation — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 14:57:47 +0000

Solution(s): These issues may be experienced because all Code 128 and ITF fonts use extended ASCII characters that do not work the same on all operating systems, applications and language settings other than ISO Latin 1. The main problem with Mac is that it uses the Roman character set and Windows and Linux use ISO…
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View the Code 128 check digit HR form?

idautomation — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 20:23:39 +0000

Solution(s): The MOD103 check digits of the code 128 barcode are not displayed because some of the values go beyond the ASCII character set and cannot be entered from the keyboard. However, the check digit may be visible when using the IDAutomation Code 128 Font with one of the Hb fonts provided, such as IDAutomationHbC128s.ttf. The usual purpose of…
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Encode the null function char (ASCII 0) in a barcode

idautomation — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 18:27:58 +0000

Solution(s): Null characters may be encoded in Code 39, Code 128 and most 2D barcode types such as Data Matrix. However, the null character represents the end of a data string in most applications. Therefore, any data encoded after it will usually be truncated by the barcode scanner or the application itself. In Data Matrix, the format ~dNNN represents…
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Printing the Space Symbol with Barcode Fonts

idautomation — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 20:20:22 +0000

It is often necessary to print the barcode symbol representing a space character. However, the symbol representing the space cannot always be printed because an actual space usually appears instead. Solution(s): The best way to do this is to use IDAutomation’s font encoders to automatically convert the space to the proper character in the font. A few…
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