RE: scripting barcodes
RE: scripting barcodes
- Subject: RE: scripting barcodes
- From: "Kennedy, Colin" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:37:51 -0400
- Thread-topic: scripting barcodes
Have you considered filemaker? You can do this with Filemaker Scripts. It's cross platform and networkable.. You cannot save it as an eps, but it will hold a record of everything for you. Short of that, you're into some pretty extensive programming, assuming you would have to have a database to contribute character information and then send it to an external graphics engine for processing.
-----Original Message-----
From: Håvard Graudo [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 4:31 PM
To: AppleScript List
Cc: Kennedy, Colin
Subject: Re: scripting barcodes
> I have been searching for a scriptable application for making print-
> ready (postscript) barcodes, but cannot find any.
>
> I just want to.......:
> tell app "barcode app"
> set f to (make new code with properties {type: "EAN-13" value:
> 1234567890123, colour: black, size: 80%})
> save f at somefile as eps
> end
>
> Does this app exist? Anyone got some recommendations?
>
> Håvard _______________________________________________
Den 21. jun. 2005 kl. 22:15 skrev Kennedy, Colin:
> barcodes are just fonts.
>
> Buy a font and when you change the text from "blah" in times to
> "blah" in barcode it will look right. the thing to be concerned
> about is not as much the font as what the reader needs to demark
> the beginning and end of the information on the barcode.
Thank you for the suggestion. I would prefer a proper barcode app
though.
Just using av font will be a concern for platform, an app will scale
the lines correctly, insert checksums for me, generate start and stop
characters etc, maybe give me cntrol over bar height etc.
Håvard
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