Craig,

The readme file that comes with the bacode font instructs you to add an asterisk to the front and back of your message. Other than that, all I had to do was choose the appropriate point size for my project. Works Great!!!! Thanks a million!!!
Audie

>Audie,
> I have used barcodes in the fox report generator and it looks like it is the same deal in the label designer.
>Install the barcode font on your PC (through the control panel etc) then on the label place a 'field' control which is attached to the appropriate field in your view. Then change the font for that control through the 'Format\Font' menu option in the label designer. There is no need to call any conversion routines etc yourself ie: just use this font on a regular field containing text and it does the 'conversion' for you.
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>To get to the Files section click on the button to the left of here with the filing cabinet icon. You will then get another bunch of icons, one of which will be labelled 'Third Party Products'.
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>I've only done a little work with barcodes so I not very familiar with any established standards etc but one thing I did come across was that the text being encoded in the bar code always had an asterix (*) added at the start and end of the text. ie: 'ABC123' should be encoded as '*ABC123*'. This may have been handled automatically in a conversion program but you may have to deal with it if using the fonts. The expression I used for the barcode fields in my report was usually something like <'*' + alltrim(mycursor.myfield) + '*'>.
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>HTH
>Craig
>
>>Hi Craig,
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>>Yes, as I was trying to go to sleep last night I did consider a font change might take care of the problem. Let me give you a little more background. I am printing a custom label from a local view. Can I change fonts in a label format? The reason I used a label is that I need to print three forms per page and the labels seemed the easier way to do this. You mentioned files section under third party products. How do I get there from here? Thanks for your help.
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>>Audie
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>>>Did you consider using bar code fonts instead of programs?
>>>Through the fox report designer using bar codes is the same as any other font. Just use a regular text object and set the font type to the installed barcode font.
>>>There is a zipped barcode font in the files section (third party products).
>>>
>>>HTH
>>>
>>>Craig
>>>>I am designing an application that will print out cards that will also contain code 39 barcodes. I got a shareware program that decodes text into code 39 barcodes in Foxpro. The program works well. The problem is that what it returns is greek (or some other language). The two character sets in this code are CHR(0) for spaces and CHR(255) for bars. Visual Foxpro 3.0 is giving me square boxes for spaces and lowercase y with an umlaut for bars. Can anyone help with this problem?
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>>>>Audie