Re: [Barcode4j-users] Code128 - problem encoding carriage return

[Jeremias M. <de...@je...>]

Hi Ania

I'll look at the \r problem shortly and report back. I didn't pay so
much attention to that detail. I'll probably just convert problematic
characters in the human-readable part into spaces. I hope that's what
you would expect.

If you're serious about barcodes a hardware reader is a good investment.
Sometimes I also use this:
http://www.qualitysoft.de/en/extern_bctester.htm (Freeware)

I've also tried Google's ZXING (Open Source) but I found that to be
unreliable. More on that in my reply to your other message.


On 19.02.2009 00:23:05 Ania Wieckowska wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying out the barcode4j JavaBean API to generate Code128 barcodes which
> contain pipes(|), digits & carriage returns (\r).  The pipes and digits are
> showing up fine, but the carriage returns is missing from the printed text
> underneath the image.
> I haven't verified whether the carriage return is missing from the barcode
> itself, because I don't have a barcode scanner and so far have had no luck
> finding a freeware or online barcode tester (most apps are linked to barcode
> libraries and will not simply read back the encoded value).
> So... what do I need to do to have the carriage return encoded?
> 
> Thanks.  I think this package will solve my use case perfectly.
>   -Ania
> 
> 
> P.S.  I would be very grateful if anyone can recommend an online or freeware
> barcode reader for testing.




Jeremias Maerki