Re: PDF417 BARCODE keyword and carriage return

[Rich Duzenbury <rduz-midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We resorted to using a reel printer, Zebra Z4MPlus.  It has it's own
language called 'ZPL', sample below.  It can be hung off the network (if
you get that option), so I created a remote writer to drive it.  The
only trick is to use the *WSCST QSYS/QWPDEFAULT on the CRTOUTQ command.

^XA                             # Start of label
        ^FO0,136                # Set Field Origin
        ^B7N,5,4,13,,N          # PDF 417 Barcode
        ^FDThis is the barcode data^FS
^XZ                             # End of label

Reel printers are nice, but won't work too well for a US Letter size
report...



On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 08:15, darren@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> 
> Rich,
> Thanks for the info, I'll give that a try.
> 
> I told everyone that we could do 2D barcode on a report.  Imagine my
> surprise when I found out that HPT didn't recognize this.  To further
> frustrate my efforts, many IPDS printers don't even handle it.  We're
> replacing some old DOS system, printing to a dot-matrix, that can generate
> these barcodes on a report.
> 
> My only recourse thus far has been to use Infoprint Server to create a PDF
> of the document, email it to the user, and tell them that they'll have to
> open the attachment in Acrobat and print it to the printer.  I tried to
> find a way around it.  I thought if I can generate a PDF on the iSeries,
> then I should be able to send that to the printer somehow using Infoprint's
> Transform Manager.  But, to get a PDF file to the printer it still goes
> through HPT, and it seems to choke on it then too.
> 
> 
> 
> ____
> Original Message:
> 
> Darren,
> 
> Seems like the scanner would be looking for an x'0D' and/or x'0A'.  If I
> remember correctly, if you encode x'0D25' into your ebcdic string, it
> will be converted to x'0D0A' by the ebcdic to ascii conversion table.
> 
> So,
> eval barcode = %trim(barcode) + x'0D25';
> might do the trick.
> 
> Incidentally, would you mind telling me what print mechanism you are
> using to print the 2D barcodes?  I was just reading the other day that
> host print transform is incomplete in that it will transform and print a
> 1D barcode, but not a 2D barcode (as of V5R2).  Has that limitation been
> removed, or are you using an IPDS printer of some kind?
> --
> Regards,
> Rich
> 
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Regards,
Rich

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