Posted: April 26 2004 at 2:20pm | IP Logged

I just obtained the demo of Morovia FontPal to be able to print UPC-A bar codes on our packing lists.  The font I selected for our purposes was MRV UEBXSA.  I wanted to know if I could turn off the printing of the UPC-A number under the barcode to save space?

Thanks.

Posted: April 27 2004 at 9:52am | IP Logged

As you may know, UPC encoding is very complex because of the underlying text is required. We can not provide technical support for this purpose - since the standard requires the human readable text. However, you can figure out easily by yourself by reading this article:

http://www.morovia.com/font/support/manually-upc-ean.pdf

This article explains how to manually generate the barcode string for UPC and EAN numbers. With the encoding scheme in mind, you can easily figure out how to encode a UPC-A number into the non-HR form.

Posted: April 27 2004 at 10:05am | IP Logged

Thanks.  I have seen other bar code generators and they had an option to either print the numbers or not.  I was hoping this was just the equivelant of a different type of font that might be provided here.  I'll check out the link mentioned and see what I can do.

Thanks again.

Posted: April 27 2004 at 8:29pm | IP Logged

If that is what you want, you may take a look at Monterey Barcode Creator at http://www.morovia.com/label/. You are able to turn off the HR text in Barcode Creator.