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The barcde.glm is used to add a soft font barcode to printed, faxed or emailed documents.
The directory /u/mvs/fonts/ contains all soft font files that are available to barcde.glm.
Soft font files are graphic images of barcode symbols that have been converted to PCL 5 fonts.
barcde.glm uses /u/mvs/dsk0/100001/font.tbl to assign a PCL5 font number to a specific font file.
If a Profits Plus program uses barcde.glm to add a barcode to a report or document then all the required soft font files will automatically be pre-pended to the spool file that gets sent to the printer (or email, or fax).
As of 12/28/2006 all of our soft fonts come from Azalea. www.azalea.com
Soft font filenames must be all lowercase because Softworks Basic RUN can not handle mixed case filenames.
Exploring the soft font files:
You can use the test program /u/mvs/dsk1/100057/tstupc.psm to print sample barcodes to see if they are right for your application.
It will print 1 barcode for each of the first 8 lines in the font.tbl. So if you want to only print 1 barcode you'll have to comment out all but one line in the font.tbl.
After setting up the font.tbl you can run the program from the command line with this:
cd /u/mvs/dsk0/100001
RUN /u/mvs/dsk2/100000/tstupc.run
Barcode Basic knowledge
Code39 font files.
Up to 44 alphanumeric characters in a barcode.
We use is for order numbers, invoice numbers, PO numbers, item numbers, etc.
File size is small and they do not impact performance.
UPC font files
Exactly 11 numeric digits plus a check digit. barcde.glm can calculate the check digit.
Used only for UPC-A and EAN-13 barcodes.
We do not support UPC-E or EAN-8 barcodes.
File size is huge and will add a noticeable delay in printing documents.