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JimRice
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Hi All,

Does anyone have an example of printing continuous form labels with a barcode being printed on the labels.

Thanks
Jim


WF DevStu 5.2.6/WF Srv 5.2.4/Win NT 5.2
 
Posts: 118 | Location: Lincoln Nebraska | Registered: May 04, 2005Report This Post
Darin Lee
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Jim,

I don't know if you got the email I sent on this or not, but basically you would create labels (for which there are many examples on the forum) but instead of printing your field(s) in a "letter" font, use a barcode font such as CODE39, following instructions in the manual Creating Reports with WebFOCUS Language for adding the non-standard font to your WF installation. These are not images, per se, just a different font like Hebrew or Korean.


Regards,

Darin


In FOCUS since 1991
WF Server: 7.7.04 on Linux and Z/OS, ReportCaster, Self-Service, MRE, Java, Flex
Data: DB2/UDB, Adabas, SQL Server Output: HTML,PDF,EXL2K/07, PS, AHTML, Flex
WF Client: 77 on Linux w/Tomcat
 
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JimRice
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Hi Darin,

Thanks for the e-mail.

I copied the two files code39a.afm and code39a.pfb onto our reporting server in folder ibi\srv52\home\etc

Then I updated pdf.fmp with the following:

font=BARCODE1, style=normal, metricsfile=CODE39A AFM *, fontfile=CODE39A PFB *, $

Then I ran the following fex:

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
SALES
BY COUNTRY
BY CAR
BY MODEL
BY BODYTYPE
ON TABLE SET ONLINE-FMT PDF
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
UNITS=IN,
PAGESIZE='LETTER',
SQUEEZE=ON,
ORIENTATION=PORTRAIT,
$
TYPE=REPORT,
COLUMN=SALES,
FONT='BARCODE1',
$
TYPE=TITLE,
STYLE=BOLD,
$
ENDSTYLE
END

and the result is:

The SALES column prints out as a blank???

What else do I need to do?

Thanks
Jim


WF DevStu 5.2.6/WF Srv 5.2.4/Win NT 5.2
 
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Darin Lee
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I ran your code as-is on my server and it works. The only thing I can think of is that for whatever reason in emailing/copying files, the font files have become corrupted. Try using the ttf2pt1 utility to create your own AFM and PFB files (i think i had instructions in the powerpoint - but it is also in the readme of the utility zipfile.) an use the resulting files. If you're using ftp, the PFB file must be transferred in binary mode. Good luck


Regards,

Darin


In FOCUS since 1991
WF Server: 7.7.04 on Linux and Z/OS, ReportCaster, Self-Service, MRE, Java, Flex
Data: DB2/UDB, Adabas, SQL Server Output: HTML,PDF,EXL2K/07, PS, AHTML, Flex
WF Client: 77 on Linux w/Tomcat
 
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Darin Lee
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Just now noticed that you are on 5.2.x. Can't remember for sure if this went back as far as 4.3.6 or if the feature was made available in 5.3.x. They actually included this feature at our request and I think we were on 436 at the time.


Regards,

Darin


In FOCUS since 1991
WF Server: 7.7.04 on Linux and Z/OS, ReportCaster, Self-Service, MRE, Java, Flex
Data: DB2/UDB, Adabas, SQL Server Output: HTML,PDF,EXL2K/07, PS, AHTML, Flex
WF Client: 77 on Linux w/Tomcat
 
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