Re: OMR (PGE)

[couch]

The technique is exactly the same.

Instead of choosing a text font like Arial/Times and putting page numbers into the EPS, 

choose the required barcode font like code128/Interleaved3or9 and put in the information that needs to be in the barcode.

The font and the data will vary depending on the device that's doing the reading (finisher/inserter etc)

[Eyal Arie]

I have written a couple of examples in the past that you can use as a reference or a starting point.

My samples are attached (to save space I removed the sample INDD docs that were used by the samples)

Some things to remember:

1. If you want to use a Barcode font approach you need to take care of the encoding of the characters to the ones that the Barcode font actually uses and should make sure the font is available to your RIP.

2. With PGE, you end up with many copies of the PGE code in the output stream so you should try to reduce the size of the PGE EPS file. In the zip file you will find some instructions about this as well).

Notes on my samples:

1. My example use a free library written by Terry Burton from the UK (link to his library: https://code.google.com/p/postscriptbarcode/) that can generate many types of barcodes, both linear and 2D. If you take this approach be sure to download a recent copy of the library.

2. You can see how I divided the PGE file into two parts, one only gets into the output stream once, the other gets embedded each time the PGE is drawn. This approach is in order to decrease the "footstamp" of the PGE.

3. There's an option to instruct XMPie not to copy all the ADORs into the PGE each time, but rather only the one / ones required by the PGE. More details are in the technical note in the attached zip file. My samples were created without this approach, but can easily be modified to use it.

Good luck

Eyal

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[Yosimo]

Hi Eyal,

thank you for this guide!
I realize this is a good opportunity to use this workaround for bar codes that are not directly supported by XMPie.
So I generate the code93 from an ADOR. Unfortunately this does not work when I add the code with options on the command line.

0 0 moveto () (includecheck) /code93 /uk.co.terryburton.bwipp findresource exec
 
May be it possible you can give me a solution, such as the options to be considered?

Regards
Yosimo

[Daniel van Toor]

Dear Eyal,

 

Took a while but, instead of a OMR i used your DataMatrix PGE and changed it so i have in de DataMatrix:

- recordnumber

- current page of set

- total pages of set

- repeating controlnumber from 1 till 16 over al the pages

 

This DataMatrix can be read by finishingmachines, to keep al the variable pages together as a set.

 

Thank you for your sollution.