Select type of bar code
At the Form Designer screen:-
● Select: Tools - Bar code
or
Select
option on the Object Toolbar
The program may prompt for the properties and for Form design also prompts the action of the bar code; Per item or Per list
● Select the type of bar code
Per list - the bar code appears once on each form
Per item - the bar code applies to each data item
Per list might be something like a customer reference on an Invoice or despatch note for a customer. Per item might be a list of Products with a bar code next to each product.
Use the options to set up the Bar code. More details are given in the help topic: Bar codes - forms and labels
Bar code operations
Rotate
bar code 0,90,180,270 degrees
Narrow bar width - enter a value for the width of the individual element. For example, 0.01 cm
Size - number of characters
Pad
to length
Set this value to fill up the bar code to the specified size
(Rotate, Narrow bar width, and Pad to size are not available for labels printed at the saw)
The following facilities are available for barcodes in forms / labels:
Rotate
If the rotation angle is changed from 0/180 to 90/270 then the Width and Height fields are swapped. e.g. a barcode on 0 degrees has a width of 5 cm and a height of 2 cm but when it is rotated 90 degrees the width is 2cm and the height is 5 cm.
Pad to length
For example, if the size is set to 50 characters each bar code is 50 characters long filled with spaces where necessary.
Narrow bar width
By default a bar code is stretched to fit the bar code width. If the narrow bar width value is specified the barcode uses that value for the narrow bar; barcodes with less information are shorter in the width.
The narrow bar width value can be any value from 0.01 upwards in 0.01 increments.
