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cdeal
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We are looking into putting bar codes instead of a numerical code on our mailings. Ideally we would like to have the bar codes generated and exported in a WebFocus report. Does anyone do this? I found one link that mentioned briefly how to do this in a PDF format, but we would need a specific bar code for each person in an address list. Is this possible with WebFocus?

Thanks in Advance!


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Alan B
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We used to do this with an image generator into HTML, but that software disappeared, but the original code still works.

A different approach I've seen is here which generates Code 39 barcodes with js and css.


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dhagen
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I haven't done this, but you could use a free java bar code generator like barbecue and build a CALLJAVA routine to generate the images in your TEMPDISK, FOCCACHE or whatever. Then reference them in whatever output format you are looking for.


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StuBouyer
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You can do this within WebFOCUS quite simply - once you have the fonts installed for PDF use anyway.

If you are just doing HTML then it's even easier.

1) Grab your self a barcode font - the Open Source barfonts (http://www.karrman.org/barfonts/) works well and can be set up for PDF easily.

2) Write your FEX. Note: for all the Code 39 fonts I found you needed to start and end your string with '*'

Here is an example from CAR

DEFINE FILE CAR
SERIAL/A50 = '*HAPPY-FROG-7856956*';
CNTRY_CODE/A50 = '*' || COUNTRY || '*';
END
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM 
     SALES
     CNTRY_CODE
BY  COUNTRY
HEADING
"<SERIAL"
" "
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
$
TYPE=REPORT,
     GRID=OFF,
$
TYPE=DATA,
     COLUMN=N3,
     FONT='BARCODE39',
$
TYPE=HEADING,
     LINE=1,
     OBJECT=FIELD,
     ITEM=1,
     FONT='BARCODE39',
     SIZE=42,
$
ENDSTYLE
END


When I scan the barcodes with my phone I get the names of the Country for each row. Shouldn't take to much to create individua; mailing labels.

Regards

Stuart


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Wep5622
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quote:
Note: for all the Code 39 fonts I found you needed to start and end your string with '*'


I think I know why that is. If a scanner sees an '*' at both sides of the scanned code, then it knows it read the entire code and not just part of it.

For HTML; I know that in modern HTML you can embed fonts, which would allow directly using the font in your HTML report. I haven't looked into that yet, but this seems a good reason to do so. That seems preferable to drawing barcodes using spans of different widths...

Well, this guy seems to have worked most of it out for us: http://taggedzi.com/articles/d...edding-fonts-in-html
Now it's just a matter of adding the right CSS for the fields that you want to use barcodes for and make sure the stylesheet gets referenced correctly in your mailed messages.

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This is what we do:
1. Define the bar code format:
POLICYN_BAR/A26=IF POL_LEN EQ 11 THEN '*' || '0' || POLICY_NUMBER || '00' || 'MCGCORR' || '===*' ELSE '*' || '0' || POLICY_CO || POLICY_NUM || '00' || 'MCGCORR' || '===*';
2. Put it in the letter footing:
FOOTING
"ON TABLE NOTOTAL
3. Format it:
TYPE=FOOTING,
FONT='IDAUTOMATIONHC39M',
SIZE=8,STYLE=NORMAL,
POSITION=(4.000000 11.00000),
$

Just remember that you need to load the bar code font on the server you're using.
 
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JALDbaDev
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oops. step 2 should be:
FOOTING
double quote - less than sign - bar code name - closing double quote
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
 
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Wep5622
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Yes, but that doesn't work for HTML I think? Unless you installed that particular font on all user PC's?

BTW, your markup broke; you need to put your code between code tags (the button marked </> in the toolbar).


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YEs you can have a font in HTML that is not on the PC... Custom Font in HTML


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Posts: 125 | Location: Columbus, Ohio | Registered: March 31, 2006Report This Post
cdeal
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Thank you all! We first need to install the font, so I will start there. Thank you for help!


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neuro
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If you are doing it via HTML then you wont need to install it just call the font file. Though not sure from a PDF perspective. Sometimes we have to end up displaying to HTML and then printing to PDF because we just cannot get PDF output from Focus to do what we want.


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