1. Post Office barcodes
Hi,
I want to add the Postal barcodes to my envelope printing app. Does anyone
know where I can find them? I presume they are a font. My WEB search only
resulted in highpriced softwares mainly directly to companies.
Thanks,
Judith Evans
2. Re: Post Office barcodes
----- Original Message -----
From: Judith Evans <camping at FLASH.NET>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 8:35 AM
Subject: Post Office barcodes
> Hi,
>
> I want to add the Postal barcodes to my envelope printing app. Does anyone
> know where I can find them? I presume they are a font. My WEB search only
> resulted in highpriced softwares mainly directly to companies.
>
Hi, Judith
I agree - seems like there should be a free barcode font, since the USPS
requires the use of barcode on automated mailings. Paying $150 or more
for a font that contains two (count 'em, 2) symbols, is outrageous.
So far, I have found:
free Postnet font - not sure if it is "munged".
http://www.jgilmore.com/postnet.htm has a C library which you can call to
print Postnet barcodes. There's a full demo (limited # of prints at each
run)
and the price to unlock the limit is only $39.00
http://www.mecsw.com/specs/postnet.html has specs and a short C program
to calculate the Postnet code/checkdigit.
If you want to go to zip+4, to get discounts, there's an additional problem:
You'll have to verify the addresses with CASS. see
http://www.worksright.com/casswrsi.html as well as ABE (Automated Barcode
Evaluation) tests.
Irv
3. Re: Post Office barcodes
Thanks Irv for the information on the postal barcodes. I'll give the sites a
looksee. I found a freebee from a person in Europe that lets you cut and
paste several formats of barcodes but its 3 of 5 looks much different from
the normal postal barcodes I've seen.
Judith
4. Re: Post Office barcodes
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> Thanks Irv for the information on the postal barcodes. I'll give the sites a
> looksee. I found a freebee from a person in Europe that lets you cut and
> paste several formats of barcodes but its 3 of 5 looks much different from
> the normal postal barcodes I've seen.
If you don't mind a long download, you can check out http://www.usps.gov
for a file named Pub25.pdf which gives full details on how to construct Postnet
barcodes. It's about 1.2 megs.
Regards,
Irv
5. Re: Post Office barcodes
- Posted by Judith Evans <camping at FLASH.NET>
Jan 30, 2000
-
Last edited Jan 31, 2000
Thanks Irv,
I spent all day figuring out the barcode for numbers 0-9. Collected every
envelope we had laying around with barcodes on them and luckily found all
the numbers. With a writeup from one of the sites you told me about earlier
I could figure them out. Many thanks. But when I tried to 'draw' bars on the
printer, I got stuck! Apparently drawLine in win32lib does not work with the
Printer (or I've done something incorrectly again.) I looked in all my
fonts for anything close to a bar but couldn't find anything. I remember way
back in ancient history (early last year) that somebody posted a couple of
printer routines for printing from Windows. One of the things was a line
drawn diagonally across the page and some text. I can't find it anymore
right when it would be useful. I'm sure it used TextOut in some way. I
looked at the c example in one of the sites you posted earlier. I don't know
C and the program wanted to link an .obj library. Guess that is where the
graphics are to draw the barcode.
I'll give the new site a look tomorrow and download.
In the meantime, does anybody know how to draw a line or narrow rectangle to
the printer?
Judith Evans
6. Re: Post Office barcodes
- Posted by David Cuny <dcuny at LANSET.COM>
Jan 30, 2000
-
Last edited Jan 31, 2000
Judith Evans wrote:
> Apparently drawLine in win32lib does not work with the Printer ...
It's *supposed* to work, but I haven't tested it.
-- David Cuny
7. Re: Post Office barcodes
David,
My apologies! A combination of a bad print cartrigde, grainy paper and my
miscalculation of the pixel x,y coordinates were at fault.
Your routine works fine.
Irv,
Wish I had seen your last post before I spent all day figuring out the
barcodes. The usps site gave me everything I could ever want to know about
barcodes. You have been very helpful and I thank you.
Judith Evans
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000 19:55:04 -0800, David Cuny <dcuny at LANSET.COM> wrote:
>Judith Evans wrote:
>
>> Apparently drawLine in win32lib does not work with the Printer ...
>
>It's *supposed* to work, but I haven't tested it.
>
>-- David Cuny
8. Re: Post Office barcodes
----- Original Message -----
From: Judith Evans <camping at FLASH.NET>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 7:00 AM
Subject: Re: Post Office barcodes
> David,
> My apologies! A combination of a bad print cartrigde, grainy paper and my
> miscalculation of the pixel x,y coordinates were at fault.
>
> Your routine works fine.
Judith:
I tried drawLine() without success. Could you share some code that
demonstrates
how to use it?
Thanks,
Irv
9. Re: Post Office barcodes
Irv,
I presume you mean on the printer. If not just skip some code and use Screen
where I used Printer in drawLine.
---------------- start of code
include win32lib.ew
without warning
integer ok
sequence printerstuff
--acquire the printer
printerstuff=getPrinter()
if length(printerstuff) = 0 then
-- user bailed out of print dialog
return -- or whatever is suitable in your program
end if
--set the pen color to whatever you want e.g. Red
setPencolor(Printer,Red)
--for my barcodes I also set the Pen width
--setPenWidth(Printer,5) -- 5 Pixels
--start the printer document and a page
ok=startDoc("play")
ok=startPage()
--draw a line at x1,y1 to x2,y2
--when all lines drawn then
ok=endPage()
ok=endDoc()
releasePrinter()
--------------------end of code ------------------
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000 08:41:33 -0500, Irv Mullins <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> wrote:
>
>I tried drawLine() without success. Could you share some code that
>demonstrates
>how to use it?
>
>Thanks,
>Irv
