Barcode Height

[RevJeff]

Is there a way of increasing the barcode height in a text field on a report without increasing the length? I am just trying to make the lines longer.

Thanks

 

[June7]

AFAIK, textbox does not stretch fonts, barcode or otherwise. Watched a YouTube confirming that.

Images can be stretched but barcode is a font set.

Read a discussion indicating stretching barcode lines can make them non-functional. So even if could in Access, probably shouldn't.

 

[Wayne]

Hi Gizmo,

Where did you get that VBA for generating bar codes?

Wayne

 

[Wayne]

Thanks Gizmo. I'll play around with it in my sandbox.

Wayne

 

[Wayne]

Thanks Gizmo. I do have 64-bit Windows, and Access 2019. Same issues?

Wayne

 

[June7]

Issue is with 64-bit Access, not 64-bit Windows.

 

[RevJeff]

I guessed as much. I haven't got anything with bar code fonts in to test it at the moment.

There was a recent thread HERE:-

VBA barcode code generator not working

VBA barcode code generator not working

Hi all, I used to generate a barcode font in MS Access 2010 normally with no issues even with the same printer, but when our company changed my desktop PC and upgraded to Windows 10 and MS Access to 2013 it's no more working I do not know how to fix this issue. I tried the same application at...

www.access-programmers.co.uk

That thread shows a bar-code being drawn on the report with some special software.

In other words it doesn't use a font.

I think it would be possible to increase the height of the bar-code "BAR LINES" with the special software and make a bigger barcode.

I can't understand why the OP wants a bigger barcode? I never had any problems with them in that respect.

The barcodes are being printed on labels and forklift users need to be able to scan them at a distance. It is just easier for them if they were taller.

 

[RevJeff]

I've just done a test using a Sample Microsoft Access Database containing James Isle Mercanti's VBA for Generating a Bar-code and indeed you stretch the text box size in any way you want and the bar-code will fill it exactly! So you can have a short fat bar code or a long thin barcode, whatever you want, using that particular software.

The VBA Bar-code generator code is also provided by the OP of the other thread, this thread here:-

VBA bar-code code generator not working

VBA barcode code generator not working

Hi all, I used to generate a barcode font in MS Access 2010 normally with no issues even with the same printer, but when our company changed my desktop PC and upgraded to Windows 10 and MS Access to 2013 it's no more working I do not know how to fix this issue. I tried the same application at...

www.access-programmers.co.uk

I will give it a shot. Thank you.