InterForm Manual - System & Method

The Interleaved 2 of 5 barcode must consist of an even number of digits. If you activate the
checksum digit, then InterForm400 might insert a '0' in front of the checksum digit, if
necessary to have an even number of digits.
4. EAN8, EAN13 and UPC-A
When a character string contains 8 digits, it will be printed as EAN8. A character string of 13
digits will be printed with EAN13 and 12 digits will be printed as UPC-A.
Using these barcodes with a number of characters other than 8, 12 or 13 or with non-numeric
data results in no barcode to be printed. This barcode also supports texts, that ends with ‘-‘
followed by 2 or 5 digits.
Postnet Barcode
The Postnet barcode exists, per definition, only in one size. It is therefore predefined in
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InterForm400 and does not need to be generated.
It can be used immediately by Remap Window, a Tabulator and Text constant commands
within the overlay design window by selection of font ID 3999. The font will to the user function
as a resident printer font.
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InterForm400 will automatically add start and stop codes and check digits.
Barcode PDF417
This is a two dimensional barcode widely used in e.g. the automotive industry. No soft font is
used for this barcode, which means it is not required to auto download the font. The barcode is
solely defined as a font number in the option 1. Description of additional fonts. The font can
only be used for the remap function in design overlay. W hen using a PDF417 barcode in
overlay design, you will be prompted for the maximum width of the barcode.
When you create a PDF417 font number (range 4400-4499) you are prompted for these
parameters (apart from the parameters specifying the actual size and security level):
Line separator
With this you can state if line breaks of the *SCS spooled file text should be ignored (specify
*NONE) or what character should be included in the PDF417 barcode to represent the line
breaks found.
(Blank, CR (=Carriage Return), CRLF (Carriage Return and Line Feed) and *NONE are the
possible values).
Escape code character
This parameter has been included in order to make it possible to insert specific ASCII
characters specified by the hexadecimal value. State a special character here and when this is
found in the text to be printed as PDF417 barcode the next two characters are interpreted as
the hexadecimal value for the ASCII character to be inserted instead. If you e.g. use ‘]’ as the
escape code character, the text ‘]0A’ will be printed as the ASCII character having the
hexadecimal value . This option make it possible to print PDF417 barcodes for e.g. the
GM-1724-A/B/C Label standard used in the automotive industry.
You use the PDF417 font number by remapping a window of text. When you specify a PDF417
font number you are prompted for a ‘Maximum line width’ and ‘Maximum line height’. You are
expected to specify only one of them. Normally you would probably use a maximum line
width and let the height vary with the variable amount of characters to be converted, but a
maximum line height has been added to meet requirements of the automotive industry.
Datamatrix barcodes
Datamatrix barcodes can be used for ZPL (Zebra) output from InterForm400. For more
information refer to page 337.
InterForm A/S 321