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RE: [PHP3] Barcodes From: Stephen L. Fichtner (fichtner <email protected>)
Date: 07/31/98

Alan,
        I think I got it here...

http://www.adams1.com/pub/russadam/fonts.html

and file link is...

http://www.adams1.com/pub/russadam/shareware/3of9_new.zip

Steve

At 11:29 AM 7/31/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Could I ask, by chance, where you found that font? Would be interested in
>looking at that.
>-Alan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Stephen L. Fichtner [mailto:fichtner <email protected>]
>Sent: Friday, July 31, 1998 5:43 AM
>To: php3 <email protected>
>Subject: Re: [PHP3] Barcodes
>
>
>Yes,
> That would be a neat thing to do. I did find a barcode TTF that works.
>The name is 3of9_new.ttf and I think it corrects some flaws in the original
>3of9.ttf. One of the things I was doing was creating the barcode and
>sending the created gif to a web page. Then I saved the resultant image to
>a file. Our barcode decoder is built into our viewer and it wouldn't
>recognise the barcode no matter what barcode font I used. However, on
>advice, I printed the web page then scanned it on our normal document
>scanner and then used our viewer to view the image and that's when I could
>decode the barcode.
>
>But, that brings up other questions for barcodes in general (not just 3 of
>9 but others too). Is there a need to create barcodes with PHP? Either
>using functions or as an internal function. Hmmmm.....
>
>
>Steve
>
>
>At 01:45 PM 7/30/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>Also sprach Stephen L. Fichtner (at 08:14 AM 7/30/98 -0500) ...
>>>I thought maybe someone had examined the barcode spec and created a
>>>function or whatever to create the barcode meeting the spec. But I'm open
>>>to all kinds or ideas. I "know" some C programming but I'm not really a C
>>>programmer.
>>
>>Well, if you can find the spec for barcodes, why not use PHP and the GD
>>functions to make a white gif with little black bars on it in the
>>appropriate places?
>>
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