Overview

A UPC symbol that encodes a number system character, 10 digits of data and a check digit. It is used for point of sale applications.

Invoking

• The data field for a UPC-A may contain 11 or 12 digits, optionally follow by a space then 2 or 5 digits if an addon is required.
  
• If 11 digits of primary data are supplied the the 12th checkdigit is calculated automatically, otherwise the digits are encoded as supplied.
  
• The includetext option should normally be supplied.

Example

0 0 moveto (78858101497) (includetext) upca