Barcodes in reports

[paultax]

Hi
Does anyone have any experience with putting a barcode into reports?
There are quite a lot of commercially available modules and activex controls, but they are fairly prices, and I'm just too tight!
They also tend to do way more than I want (I just want standard EAN13 barcodes linked to a field).
Surely there must be a cheap way??!!
I'm using Access 2003 too... I believe A2008 has it built in??
Paul

 

[Call_Me_Sam]

Hi
Does anyone have any experience with putting a barcode into reports?
There are quite a lot of commercially available modules and activex controls, but they are fairly prices, and I'm just too tight!
They also tend to do way more than I want (I just want standard EAN13 barcodes linked to a field).
Surely there must be a cheap way??!!
I'm using Access 2003 too... I believe A2008 has it built in??
Paul

Have you tried downloading a free barcode font and using that in a text field?

http://www.barcodesinc.com/free-barcode-font/

We used to use barcodes as part of a postage labels for couriers and used this method. Hope this helps.

 

[maneyact]

Barcodes

Hey - I know you were trying to do this on the cheap but I used an ActixeX component from Fath Software called BarcodeX. It was brilliant and very flexible. For $99.00 it was great value and I highly recommend it!

http://www.fathsoft.com/barcodex.html

Scott.

 

[supmktg]

I print barcodes in reports all the time without active-x or external barcode software. I just downloaded and installed the barcode fonts that I need, and then use them as the font for the textbox in the report.

You must be sure to include Start & Stop characters in addition to your field data. These characters tell the barcode reader where to begin and end interpreting the barcode. Mostly I use code39 which uses an "*" as Start & Stop. I've never used EAN so I'm not sure what character it uses. I found a link that seems to give you all the EAN info you need here:
morovia.com/font/support/manually-upc-ean.pdf

Also, there are many "free" fonts available on the web. I did a quick search for a free EAN font and I found:
http://www.karrman.org/barfonts/

I have no idea if these links are safe or if the downloads are virus free so be aware.

I hope this helps you,
Sup