program to make barcodes from list of items?

[Liam]

(If someone has a better place for me to ask this, please let me know.
I really have no idea.)

We need to be able to print individual Code 128 barcodes from the
output of a mySQL database querey.
What software recommendations are there?

Basically, the querey will just output up to 40 order numbers in a
list, probably comma separated.
Then how can we just take that list and copy and paste the list into
maybe a program that knows to make a separate label from each item and
arrange them on whatever size sheet of Avary labels?

Any software recommendations would be welcome! Price isn't TOO much of
a matter. (Preferably UNDER $200 would be nice.)

Thanks!
-Liam

 

[Ralph Aichinger]

We need to be able to print individual Code 128 barcodes from the
output of a mySQL database querey.
What software recommendations are there?

Basically, the querey will just output up to 40 order numbers in a
list, probably comma separated.
Then how can we just take that list and copy and paste the list into
maybe a program that knows to make a separate label from each item and
arrange them on whatever size sheet of Avary labels?

Any software recommendations would be welcome! Price isn't TOO much of
a matter. (Preferably UNDER $200 would be nice.)

If you can use a Linux system, things are easy and cheap:
GNU barcode works just fine for your application

http://ar.linux.it/software/#barcode

You might find a Windows port. Nice commandline program with a
utility that allows printing out whole sheets from a file with
barcode strings.

Another Linux program is gLabels

http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php/gLabels

a more graphical program.

/ralph -- there obviously are lots of programs that
do this in windows, but I am not sure if
they are free and without shareware nagging.

 

[Liam]

We need to be able to print individual Code 128 barcodes from the
output of a mySQL database querey.
What software recommendations are there?

[..snip..]
If you can use a Linux system, things are easy and cheap:
GNU barcode works just fine for your application

[..snip..]
Thanks for the feedback!
Unfortunately, while I use a Linux desktop, the shipping PC that would
need to run it has to stay WinXP.
::shrug::
Thanks again for the reply.
-Liam

 

[Liam]

Huh, sounds promising.
However, isn't it more than just a font change that's needed?
Especially for Code 128 type barcodes? Don't they have some kind of
checksum lines that are coded in?
I'll have to look into it.
Thanks for the tip!
-Liam

 

[Character]

(If someone has a better place for me to ask this, please let me know.
I really have no idea.)

We need to be able to print individual Code 128 barcodes from the
output of a mySQL database querey.
What software recommendations are there?

Basically, the querey will just output up to 40 order numbers in a
list, probably comma separated.
Then how can we just take that list and copy and paste the list into
maybe a program that knows to make a separate label from each item and
arrange them on whatever size sheet of Avary labels?

Any software recommendations would be welcome! Price isn't TOO much of
a matter. (Preferably UNDER $200 would be nice.)

Thanks!
-Liam

Have you googled? There are quite a number of barcode generators (in
all formats) available at a wide range of prices; some commercial ones
have trial or demo versions.

Google for
Barcode generator

One of the earliest such suppliers was Azalea
http://www.azalea.com/

 

[Ralph Aichinger]

I don't know anything about Code 128, so I can't comment. Barcodes font have
worked for me in the past though, I think it was Code 3 of 9.

For code128 you need to calculate a checksum.

http://www.easesoft.net/Code128-ean128.html

/ralph

 

[Thomas Lutz]

You might try a program called B-Coder Professional from TAL
Technologies. B-Coder is a Windows based bar code image generator.
You can use B-Coder to generate high resolution images of your bar
codes one at a time or you can use B-Coder in conjunction with another
program like Word or Exel to generate bar codes multiple bar codes
automatically. B-Coder Pro has an interface to other programs so that
you can control it using macros in the other program. We provide
several excellent sample macros for Word and Excel that should do what
you want to do without any modification at all. For more detailed
information about B-Coder or to download a demo version visit:
http://www.taltech.com/products/barcode_software.html

 

[Juanjo Tornés]

If you are working with a barcode printer you don´t need software. There´re
fonts that you must add to the driver and then the new font is available in
any windows software. It works with the whole range of Toshiba barcode
printers www.toshibatec-eu.com and it´s 100% free. The printer get its
command and ready to print

TTF fonts or many barcode generators doesn´t works, take care with it

 

[aaron.kempf]

dude you're a fucking retard

use Access for this type of thing; not WORD

maybe if you knew how to use Office you wouldn't run away to a linux
desktop


ROFL

 

[Thomas Lutz]

There are several ways that you can do things using a standard laser
printer printing to Avery labels without having to purchase a special
bar code label printer. One simple way would be import the data to an
Access database table and then create a label report in Access using a
good bar code ActiveX control to generate the bar codes in the report.
The best bar code ActiveX control on the market is available from TAL
Technologies
http://www.taltech.com/products/activex_barcodes.html

Another way to do things would be to do a MailMerge in Word using the
data from the query as the data source for the mailmerge and merging
into a label template. Word has a mailmerge wizard that will walk you
through most of the process even allowing you to select an Avery label
number so that the label template is automatically generated for you.
You could then either use a bar code ActiveX control or a program like
the B-Coder Professional software from TALtech to insert the bar codes
into the labels after the data has been merged. For information about
B-Coder, visit:
http://www.taltech.com/products/barcode_software.html

 

[MontereySoft]

For code128, take a look at

http://www.morovia.com/font/code128.asp

Works very well.

or you can use Morovia Barcode ActiveX (http://www.morovia.com/activex).