Re: Barcodes and Informix

Posted in 1994

Richard Spitz — Wed, 27 Apr 1994 07:30:25 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

J. David Schronce (david@cssnet.sanford.nc.us) wrote: : I'd like to be able to generate BarCodes for my picking tickets and : shipping documents. Has anyone had any succcess creating these from : Informix? We are printing barcodes with an ACE report using a HP Laserjet with barcode font cartridge. To issue the printer control codes for switching to the barcode font, we simply do PRINT ASCII 27,"<rest_of_escape_sequence>"; { switch to barcode } PRINT variable; { print variable in barcode } PRINT ASCII 27,"<rest_of_other_esc_sequ.>" { switch back to normal font } Printing the control codes will probably disturb ACE's column count, so if you depend on printing at certain columns, you will have to fiddle around quite a bit. Hope this helps, Richard -- +----------------------------+-------------------------------------------+ | Dr. Richard Spitz | INTERNET: spitz@ana.med.uni-muenchen.de | | EDV-Gruppe Anaesthesie | Tel : +49-89-7095-3421 | | Klinikum Grosshadern | FAX : +49-89-7095-8886 | | 81366 Munich, Germany | | +----------------------------+-------------------------------------------+