Barcode geneeration and PDF?

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Big D

I am working on an online promotional deal for a client where I need to be
able to create a barcode that can be redeemed at checkout of one of their
branch stores. Has anyone worked with this before? It seems pretty
straitforward in terms of genrating the barcode dynamically from the numbers
I'll be given, but doesn't a barcode have to print at a particular size and
resolution in order to work? I was thinking of generating the barcode and
dynamically adding it to a pdf file... would that control the output
size/resolution/at a particular dpi?

Can anyone recommend a pdf generator? I'm looking at using the idautomation
..net barcode generator for the barcodes. (It has to be an image, I cant use
fonts because the promotion is internet wide and obviously it's unlikely
they will have the font).

Anyone do this before??

Thanks,

MCD
 
look at:

http://www.renderbar.com/sample.php

it generates barcodes on the web using pure javascript...which is freely
available on that page. handles all major 2D barcodes along with their
respective ratios, etc.. if you are doing this online, no need to go the pdf
route.

hth,

steve
 
Hi MCD,

Have your tried steve's suggestion? If you have any concern on this issue,
please feel free to post here.

The topic have been talked before, here is the link you may take a look.

Barcode with VB.NET
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=zh-CN&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=vodh4
oem7trqff%40corp.supernews.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Dzh-CN%26lr%3D%26ie
%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26q%3Dgenerate%2Bbarcodes%2B%2522vb.net%2522

Also there are many third party controls, you may try to search on the
google.
e.g.
RBarcode 1D and 2D for .NET
http://www.java4less.com/barcodes_dotnet.html

Best regards,

Peter Huang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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Big D said:
I am working on an online promotional deal for a client where I need to be
able to create a barcode that can be redeemed at checkout of one of their
branch stores. Has anyone worked with this before? It seems pretty
straitforward in terms of genrating the barcode dynamically from the numbers
I'll be given, but doesn't a barcode have to print at a particular size and
resolution in order to work? I was thinking of generating the barcode and
dynamically adding it to a pdf file... would that control the output
size/resolution/at a particular dpi?

Can anyone recommend a pdf generator? I'm looking at using the idautomation
.net barcode generator for the barcodes. (It has to be an image, I cant use
fonts because the promotion is internet wide and obviously it's unlikely
they will have the font).

Anyone do this before??

Thanks,

MCD
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You may consider using a barcode font. Morovia Barcode fonts
(www.morovia.com/font) works at any point size greater than 10. Using
an image generate you need to take care of the resolution issue.
 
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