Problem related to barcode Printing?

[Former Member]

Hi All,

I was looking at the program which is used to print barcode but now Ihave to reduce the size of barcode but not getting the meaning of the digits used in that. I am sending you the code plz help

CONCATENATE 'BARCODE 10,36,"128",62,0,0,2,4,"'

V_MATNR

'-'

V_BATCH

'"'

INTO V_BARCODE_LINE.

Meaning of above used digits. which digit do I increase or decrease to reduse the barcode size

[Former Member]

Hi All,

I was looking at the program which is used to print barcode but now Ihave to reduce the size of barcode but not getting the meaning of the digits used in that. I am sending you the code plz help

CONCATENATE 'BARCODE 10,36,"128",62,0,0,2,4,"'

V_MATNR

'-'

V_BATCH

'"'

INTO V_BARCODE_LINE.

Meaning of above used digits. which digit do I increase or decrease to reduse the barcode size

[Former Member]

This is old technology used in SAPScript, wherein you will need to write printer barcode line and send it to printer. In old technology, barcodes were not interpreted as images - but they were represented by print command lines.

Above code seems to represent print command line for barcode

Regards,

Mohaiyuddin

[Former Member]

hi,

Yes these are , but I want to know waht is the use of digits in it and by reducing which digit will reduce my barcode size.

[Former Member]

That will depend on your printer. you have to refer printer guidelines so as to know what digit refers to which parameter. (It seems to be using CODE-128, just a guess as it pass 128)

Regards,

Mohaiyuddin

[Former Member]

Hi,

as you said above that it's an old way of printing barcode, can you tell me about it's new way and some notes regarding that , it will be a great help.

[Former Member]

New Technology is available in Smartform only. Hence you are dealing with SAPScript, you might need to migrate to smartform.

You may find more information at following link

http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_03/helpdata/EN/66/1b45c136639542a83663072a74a21c/frameset.htm

I have created wiki article for barcode design in new Technology, that might be helpful to you:

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/wiki?path=/display/snippets/designBarcodeinNewTechnology

Regards,

Mohaiyuddin

[Former Member]

hi,

There're differents solutions for the creation and print BARCODEs . All of them have the same problem : When you create a spool from a form/smartform with Barcodes, it's not possible to convert the spool to a PDF file because the BARCODE is created at the time of printing.

just try printing one copy and see.

[Former Member]

Hi AD,

This issue is not faced with new Technology. Barcode is represented as image and not print line command, hence PDF treats barcode as image. Moreover, you can print this barcode on usual laser / inkjet printer without any middleware.

Regards,

Mohaiyuddin