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IDAUTOMATION.COM, INC. RELEASES MS OFFICE MACROS AND VISUAL BASIC SOURCE CODE FOR BARCODE FONT AUTOMATION.


IDAutomation.com, Inc. has made MS Office Macros and source code, that allow for integration of barcode font technology into business applications, available at its website for free download. The free tools allow technical users and software developers to integrate modern barcode font technology directly into their business applications instead of having to export the data to a proprietary label program.

MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition) The machine recognition of numeric data printed with magnetically charged ink. It is used on bank checks and deposit slips. MICR readers detect the characters and convert them into digital data. , OCR OCR
 in full optical character recognition

Scanning and comparison technique intended to identify printed text or numerical data. It avoids the need to retype already printed material for data entry.
 and older bar code technologies such as Codabar and Code 39 are easy to print as a font. However, most modern implementations of barcodes require complicated check digit calculations for error correction that cannot be performed by the fonts themselves. The tools and source code at the IDAutomation.com web site will perform the proper calculations required and format the return string for the selected barcode font. Several barcode types are supported including Code 128, EAN EAN

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, UPC (Universal Product Code) The standard bar code printed on retail merchandise, which is administered by GS1 US, Brussels, Belgium and Lawrenceville, NJ (www.gs1.org). , MSI MSI: see integrated circuit.


(1) (MicroSoft Installer) See Windows Installer.

(2) (Medium Scale Integration) Between 100 and 3,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, LSI, VLSI and ULSI.
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The MS Office macro download includes examples of printing barcodes from MS Access reports, MS Word mail-merge and Excel spreadsheets. The MS Office macros are implemented in a single VBA module that may be easily exported and imported among MS Office applications. The Visual Basic source code provided includes a barcode printing application written in VB 6.0. Source code is also available for download in ANSI C and Java at the web site.

Barcodes can also be printed as graphic images. However, many companies prefer printing barcodes with fonts because they print fast and are optimized to generate output quickly on a variety of different printers. In addition, it usually takes less CPU time to produce output as a font than as a graphic image, because the CPU CPU
 in full central processing unit

Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit.
 must generate a new image for each barcode.
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Date:Sep 18, 2000
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