Printing barcodes from website (hopefully not off topic)

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I have a website for tracking repairs that many of you have helped get going
(THANKS!!)

Now I have another question. I currently print out Service Tickets and need
to print some of the information (serial number, etc) in bext AND barcode
format so we can scan it back in as the status of the repair changes. Has
anyone done this? Can I chose a barcode font that MS has and will it work?
 
OK, once again GOOGLE came to my rescue. I searched and found some code that
showed me that I simply have to add a * before and after the string and
format it with the font I want. My code looks like this:

</font><font face="IDAutomationHC39M" color="#000000" size="1">
*<% Response.Write(Request.Form("PTN"))%>*

I downloaded the free fontface from IDAutomation. This works with code 39
(3 of 9). I am not sure if it works with others because i didn't bother to
try it.
 
Fortunately this site is a password protected site used only by our employees
so we have control over it. Someday I will have to write a program that
checks for a particular font on the machine and downloads it if it isn't
there.

The nice thing about barcode 39 is that it is (I believe) in the public
domain. Using it on the web forms has reduced a lot of errors for us and
saved us a lot of time.
 
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