Human Readable Data

Legacy Poster

• March 03, 2012 19:28

I use BarTender to print labels for cases of fresh produce.
Our industry "Best Practices" recommends that the human readable code be formated under the barcode BUT on individual lines, broken by the AI code.
For Example
(01)74340023217005
(10)158442
(13)05082012

NOT: (01)74340023217005(10)158442(13)05082012

Thanks

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  Legacy Poster

  ★ BarTender Hero ★

  • March 05, 2012 03:34
  I don't think there is a way to break up the human readable directly like that from within the Barcode object.
  
  However, with VB script, there is always a way. Simply create new text data strings, and link them back to your barcode object Shared Sub-String using the [i]mid(<data>,<start char>,<number of chars>)[/i] function. For example, assuming your Barcode sub-string was named "Barcode", your code for line two would read:
  
  [i]Mid(Barcode, 19, 10)[/i]
  
  You can repeat this process for the third line as well, changing your parameters as needed, and group everything together.
  
  Details on the Mid(,,) function: www.w3schools.com/vbscript/func_mid.asp
  
  Reply back if this isn't enough information to help.

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  Shotaro Ito

  ★ BarTender Hero ★

  • March 05, 2012 06:44
  nRyder is right, barcode object's human readable doesn't have option to break lines.
  After create a paragraph(left aligned) text and retrieve datasource of the barcode's human readable by Label Object String (Object Value),
  You can modify that data in More options > VB Script > OnProcessData event, to have line break(vbCrLf) before '(' character.
  [code]Value = mid(replace(Value, "(" ,vbCr&"("),2)[/code]
  [attachment=125:VbsMultiLineGS1text.png]

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