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For Immediate Release:
Contact:
Brant Anderson
IDAutomation.com, Inc.
http://www.idautomation.com/
550 N. Reo Street; Suite 300
Tampa, FL 33609 813-514-2564
September, 2000
IDAutomation.com, Inc. Releases MS Office Macros and Visual Basic Source
Code for Barcode Font Automation
(Tampa, FL.) IDAutomation.com, Inc. has made
MS Office Macros and source
code, that allow for easy integration of barcode font technology into business
applications, available at its website for free download. The free tools allow
technical users and software developers to integrate modern barcode font technology
directly into their business applications instead of having to export the data
to a proprietary label program.
MICR, OCR and older bar code technologies such as Codabar and Code 39 are
easy to print as a font. However, most modern implementations of barcodes require
complicated check digit calculations for error correction that cannot be performed
by the fonts themselves. The tools and source code at the IDAutomation.com web
site will perform the proper calculations required and format the return string
for the selected barcode font. Several barcode types are supported including
Code 128, EAN, UPC, MSI, Interleaved 2 of 5 and PDF417. The MS Office macro
download includes examples of printing barcodes from MS Access reports, MS Word
mail-merge and Excel spreadsheets. The MS Office macros are implemented in a
single VBA module that may be easily exported and imported among MS Office applications.
The Visual Basic source code provided includes a barcode printing application
written in VB 6.0. Source code is also available for download in ANSI C and
Java at the web site.
Barcodes can also be printed as graphic images. However, many companies prefer
printing barcodes with fonts because they print fast and are optimized to generate
output quickly on a variety of different printers. In addition, it usually takes
less CPU time to produce output as a font than as a graphic image, because the
CPU must generate a new image for each barcode.
IDAutomation.com, Inc. produces TrueType, PostScript and PCL fonts. Their
flexible license agreements allow developers to distribute their fonts as a
component of their application. TrueType fonts can be installed on MS Windows
PCs by simply copying them into the \Windows\Fonts directory. Font usage can
be automated in the UNIX environment with TrueType font servers. Other automated
distribution techniques allowed in the license agreements include embedding
PostScript fonts into PDF (PostScript Data Format) documents and embedding TrueType
fonts into HTML web pages by utilizing TrueDoc or OpenType technology.
The macros and source code are free and may be downloaded from
http://www.idautomation.com/
in the font tools section. Licenses for the barcode fonts start at $99 USD.
IDAutomation.com also provides MICR fonts, OCR fonts, barcode scanners, Java
applets and ActiveX controls.
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