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Interleaved 2 of 5 Barcode Creator
Barcode is generated to ostream, so can be used as a picture in reports. No fonts needed - data is written directly as a bitmap.
BMP header is simplified - can be adjusted depending on your needs (look BMP specs).

Use at your own risk

http://www.mibuso.com/dlinfo.asp?FileID=1185

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Hi,

I think this is a wonderful solution!
No more hassle with fonts, automation, external programs, ...

Since I'm using the bmp piece of code myself for other barcodes, I was wondering if there's a solution to scale the bmp?

Hey,
for the scale - you might check wiki link and adjust all the stuff you need. This code is very simplified, w/o any pro stuff, so you can do whatever you want there
Use BMP header adjustment and also manual scaling for BMP bars writing (in repeat clause).
(Don't forget about height/width proportions for barcodes, for example 128 barcode height should be at least 15% of it's width and so on, all this stuff is also available in this example and easy to adjust).

This basis can be also used for other barcodes implementation, such as 128,39,93 and so on. Just use it's logic and fill up bigtext variable with 0/1 (space/bar) and vuala

Igor

I'm almost there (I guess..)
What do the 2 lines do who are marked with the comment '//?' ?

First is the color depth of the image:
65536*24 + 1 = 180001 (Hex) -> that means 1 plane is used and 24 bits per pixel.
Second is the size of BMP data - that's not FILE SIZE. Can be left blank (header is simplified, but it's better to calculate it), but you can also calculate it pvRows * pvCols * 3.

Hope it helps.
Igor

This is the result when I increase the size x5 (takes about 5 sec to build ):


This is the result when I increase the size x2


Any idea when the 2nd one looks so crooked?

Hello,
that depends where have you increased the size As from picture I can see that there are difference in bytes (tail bytes are not filled properly), You have somewhere mistake in repeat clause.
Paste the source here, and what is the barcode type here?
Also why d'you need such big barcodes?

Igor

Found it!
It were indeed the trail bytes.

The reason I want to scale the barcodes is to use in reports.
There I import the resulting Blob in a picturebox.
Since the bmp is shown in the resolution it was made, it can apear pretty small in some reports where it needs to be for example 1/2 of the page.

Once again many thanx and thumbs up for the brilliant idea!

Hello,

I just wanted to congratulate the developer Igor Pchelnikov for this wonderful solution. I'm here in Argentina, doing the Electronic Invoice and they require this exactly standard.

I implemented this on my system and it's working perfectly!

Congratulations again!

Best regards,

Guys, Thanks for sharing this solution.

Can you please update this thread with the detailed solution for scaling? As an ERP developer I am not realy used to bits and bytes.

Thanks again.

Thank you for this wonderful solution.
It works perfectly.

I had a little problem with this codeunit when I've called it twice or more.
The bitmap growed with every call. I've solved it with this code

in the function CreateBarcode.

My pleasure

Strange, I don't have that problem...

This line makes NAV crash... I supose you mean CreateBarcodedetail?