Re: scripting barcodes
Re: scripting barcodes
- Subject: Re: scripting barcodes
- From: "Gary (Lists)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 17:33:05 -0400
"Kennedy, Colin" wrote:
> Have you considered filemaker? You can do this with Filemaker Scripts. It's
> cross platform and networkable..
There are some FM tools which use typefaces (Barcodet) and at least one that
produces US Postal codes without typefaces (just uses many | characters).
Barcodet has a pricing scheme that is disadvantageous if you produce less
than a few hundred codes, and each code system is in the $70-$130 range.
> You cannot save it as an eps, but it will
> hold a record of everything for you.
Sure you can. You can print to EPS from any application, if you have one of
several free or commercial EPS print engines.
(Why would you think you can not produce EPS from FileMaker? Or from any
other place, for that matter? Rhetorical, BTW.)
> 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.
No. Jean-Baptiste suggested the path that many folks take -- use a graphics
plotting engine to produce the codes. It's not that hard, really (witness
the FileMaker example that just uses the pipe "|" character.)
Smile just happens to have a graphics plotting engine and is an AppleScript
editor, so if one wanted to script the EAN-13 plotting, I think it would be
straight-forward. The key, again, is to know the specification and to know
how that translates to screen resolution/output resolution.
Scaling factors are .8 to 2.0 for EAN, from the base specification
dimensions. (See earlier post.) So, as long as you test and verify that
you can produce a visual graphic, you can output that to whatever you would
like (if you have the capability installed.)
--
Gary
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