Stop Pub03 from proportional spacing a barcode font?

[Gilfner]

I asked this question in the Pub general section and got no ideas. Any here?

I have a barcode font I'd like to use in Publisher 2003 for custom labels,
combined with text. (The font is a popular "free three of nine font" - you
can google that.)

If I print text using that font with Windows Notepad (which somehow respects
the font's spacing,) any barcode scanner will instantly catch it and send it
to the screen.

However, if I print using that font it Publisher (or Word, which I tried at
work once), the resulting printout just won't scan. Someone said the spacing
between characters is altered, as if Publisher is trying to impose its own
'proportionality' on it.

I selected the text and went into character properties looking for a "mono"
or "non-proportional" checkbox, but couldn't find one.

Can anyone think of a workaround? How to get a number (say, 12345) put on a
Publisher page, in its own text box, set in a barcode font that is sensitive
to spacing?

Thanks

 

[Ed Bennett]

I asked this question in the Pub general section and got no ideas. Any here?

a) Everyone who hangs out in this group also hangs out in the General group.
b) This group is for discussion of Publisher's programmability features.
The general group was the correct group. A bump in that group around
about now might have been appropriate.