Barcodes in "wrong" orientation

[Bob Stubbs]

Howdy, folks:

I have a report to generate. The primary data will be a normal
"portrait" oriented report. Then I have to put a barcode on the
report that is "landscape" oriented - against one margin, I have to
put a barcode that is parallel to the margin. Does that make sense?

Has anyone ever done that type of thing before? Could it be as simple
as having a special barcode font? Any ideas?

TIA.

Bob

[Jeff Shoaf]

I haven't found a way to rotate barcode fonts so that they're in a
different orientation than other text on the report.

If the barcode is going to be the same for every record, you could
convert it to a graphic, then place it on the report while in design
mode and rotate it.

There are a few OCX's out there that do barcodes and may let you change
their orientation. I tried some several years back, but couldn't get 'em
to work in a Paradox report (but did get 'em to work on a Paradox form).
I didn't know about the "impossible Paradox" report tricks back then
though - I don't know if they'd let you code an OCX on a report "on the
fly".

Not much help - sorry!

[Steve Caple]

Bob Stubbs wrote:
> Any ideas?

Look into a Zebra printer, if the need for quality and the budget is high
enough. Of course you'll have to write Paradox code to enclose the data in
ZPL tags (the Zebra Printer Language - dense, but flexible).

--
Steve

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"Bob Stubbs" <bstu...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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Not possible with regular TrueType fonts and regular Paradox reports.

Would be easier if you just designate a spot on the report and leave the
barcode in the "regular" orientation.

[Bob Stubbs]

Jeff:

Thanks for the idea. What I ended up doing was to scan the barcodes
in the desired orientation for 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and "*", getting
jpgs for each. Then, on the basis of the desired data, I just display
the desired barcodes, "activating" them with the "*". I had to mess
with the graphic elements overwriting so that the barcode digits
wouldn't be too far apart. I also had challenges editing the jpg to
clean up the barcodes and extract just a portion of the entire
graphics. But, when I put them all together, I get a rotated barcode,
fully scanable.

Again, thanks for the idea.

Bob

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 17:59:41 -0500, Jeff Shoaf <jeff...@alltel.net>
wrote: