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- Windows BarCode Generator
- Version 1.95
- (C)opyright 1990-1991
- All Rights Reserved
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- Stellar Technologies
- 2510 Metro Blvd
- St. Louis, MO 63043
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- Wbar is user-supported software provided to you at
- no charge on a trial basis. If you use this
- software and find it of value please send $25 for
- a registered copy and support the shareware
- concept. Registered users will be provided with
- information about program updates. Please make
- checks payable to Stu Gisburne at the above
- address. You are encouraged to share this software
- with others provided that it is distributed
- complete with documentation and in unmodified form
- and that no fee or other consideration is charged
- or accepted. All commercial, business and
- government users must register each copy in use. I
- hope you enjoy using Wbar. Your comments and
- suggestions to improve this product are always
- welcome.
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- PROGRAM DESCRIPTION PROGRAM DESCRIPTION PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
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- Wbar is a program which generates bar codes (ie: 3
- of 9, UPC, Postnet, etc) that can be copied to the
- Windows Clipboard. Once in the Clipboard, you can
- then paste the barcode into other programs such as
- Windows Write, MicroSoft Word for Windows,
- Paintbrush, as well as other Windows programs that
- can accept bitmaps or metafiles from the Windows
- Clipboard.
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- HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
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- IBM Personal Computer or Compatible
- MicroSoft Windows 3.0
- Mouse
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- PROGRAM FILES PROGRAM FILES PROGRAM FILES
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- The Wbar system comes in four files:
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- WBAR.EXE executable program module
- WBAR.DOC this document in Word for Windows format
- WBAR.PRN this document in ASCII format
- WBARHELP.HLP WBAR help system
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- Page 2
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- GENERAL PROGRAM OVERVIEW GENERAL PROGRAM OVERVIEW GENERAL PROGRAM OVERVIEW
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- Upon execution, Wbar produces a typical Windows program
- window. The menu consists of File, Edit, Action, Type,
- Special and Help. When first loaded, the About Wbar
- Dialog Box appears if you have an unregistered copy of
- Wbar, otherwise you are presented by blank window. The
- cursor takes on the shape of a barcode while in the
- workspace of the Wbar window. To make a barcode, you
- simply position the cursor in the window where you want
- to place the barcode and click the left button on your
- mouse. A dialog box will appear allowing you to toggle
- various options, select what type of barcode to produce
- and to input the barcode data. After all this is done,
- clicking on OK will produce the desired barcode on the
- display. If you have the AutoMeta mode ON then a
- metafile of the barcode is copied to the clipboard. If
- you wish to copy a bitmap representation of the barcode
- to the clipboard, you then choose ACTION from the main
- menu. Clicking on SELECT from the ACTION submenu will
- toggle the cursor to become a cross. You then press the
- left mouse button and drag a box around the barcode.
- After releasing the left mouse button, clicking on COPY
- from the EDIT menu copies the selected box area to be
- pasted in Bitmap form to the Windows Clipboard.
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- Page 3
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- MENU FUNCTIONS MENU FUNCTIONS MENU FUNCTIONS
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- FILE FILE FILE
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- NEW basically clears the Wbar window of any barcodes
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- EXIT exits the Wbar program and closes the window
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- EDIT EDIT EDIT
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- COPY copies a selected area to the Clipboard
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- PASTE pastes from the Clipboard to the upper left area
- of the Wbar window
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- CLEAR another way to clear the Wbar window
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- ACTION ACTION ACTION
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- BARCODE toggles the cursor to barcode mode
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- SELECT toggles the cursor to the area select mode
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- TYPE TYPE TYPE
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- COLOR when checked, any copies to the clipboard will be
- in color bitmap format
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- MONOCHROME when checked, any copies to the clipboard
- will be in monochrome bitmap format.
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- AUTOMETA when checked, any barcodes produced on the
- display will be automatically copied to the clipboard
- in the Windows MetaFile format. Very useful to produce
- barcodes
- of exact size. Also the best way to paste barcodes into
- Corel Draw 2.0 and procduce POSTNET barcodes suitable
- for printing on envelopes.
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- Note: Metafiles pasted into other applications may not
- look correct on the display, but should print
- correctly.
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- SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL
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- Default Barcodes
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- When producing a barcode with this option checked,
- the default barcode dialog box will be used to
- input various options. With this dialog box you
- can choose amoung the following barcodes.
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- UPC-A
- UPC-E // currently not supported
- 3 of 9
- Interleaved 2 of 5
- PostNet
- EAN 13
- EAN 8
- Codabar
- Code 128
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- Bookland
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- When producing a barcode with this option checked,
- the Bookland EAN barcode dialog box will be used
- to input various options such as ISBN number and
- book price. Bookland EAN barcodes are typically
- found on or in most books sold today.
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- FIM
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- Facing Identification Mark patterns are typically
- used on reply mail envelopes and cards to further
- help the Postal Service in sorting mail. Currently
- there are four different patterns made up of a 9-
- position bar/no-bar pattern. There are position
- requirements for FIM patterns. Obtain Postal
- publication #25 for details.
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- FIM A - Courtesy Reply Mail with POSTNET
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- FIM B - Business Reply, Penalty or Franked
- Mail without POSTNET
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- FIM C - Business Reply, Penalty or Franked
- Mail with POSTNET
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- FIM D - OCR Readable Mail without POSTNET
- (usually used on courtesy reply
- window envelopes)
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- HELP invokes the WBAR help online help system
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- ABOUT displays a dialog box containing information
- about the Wbar Program
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- Page 5
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- Barcode Types currently supported in Wbar: Barcode Types currently supported in Wbar: Barcode Types currently supported in Wbar:
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- UPC-A UPC-A UPC-A
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- Universal Product Code. Commonly used in the
- supermarket industry since 1973. UPC is a coding system
- as well as a symbology, used to identify a product and
- its manufacturer. UPC-A is a fixed length numeric
- barcode which encodes 12 digits.
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- 0 04560 17100 8
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- The first digit is the industry code. For example
- 0 is grocery and 3 is pharmaceutical. Digits 2 thru 6
- specify the manufacturers product number. Digits 7 thru
- 11 contain the manufacturer ID number. The remaining
- 12th digit is a check digit calculated from the
- preceding digits.
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- Interleaved 2 of 5 Interleaved 2 of 5 Interleaved 2 of 5
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- A variable length, high density code containing
- the digits 0 thru 9. Because of the nature of coding
- Interleaved 2 of 5, data contained in the barcode must
- be an even amount of digits.
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- 3 of 9 3 of 9 3 of 9
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- An alphanumeric code consisting of the upper case
- letters "A" thru "Z", the digits "0" thru "9", and the
- characters "-", "+", ".", "$", "/", "%" and the space
- character. It is of a variable length and can contain
- up to 100 charcters in this version of Wbar.
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- POSTNET POSTNET POSTNET
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- The POSTNET bar code was developed by the Postal
- Service to provide a system of encoding Zip Code
- information on letter mail, which can be read reliably
- by relatively inexpensive bar code sorters. The code is
- made up of binary elements printed in the lower right
- corner of the mail peice as tall and short bars
- representing the Zip Code or Zip+4 code.
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- The location of the complete Zip+4 is very
- presice. The baseline of the code should be 1/4" (+/-
- 1/16") from the bottom edge of the mail piece. The
- start (left-most) bar should lie between 3 1/4" and 4"
- from the right edge of the mail piece.
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- CODABAR CODABAR CODABAR
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- Codabar is commonly used in libraries, blood banks
- and air parcel express applications. It comprises 16
- characters, the numbers "0" through "9" and the
- characters "$", ":", "/", ".", "+", and "-". There are
- four different start/stop codes "A", "B", "C", "D". In
- this version of Wbar only the start/stop sequence
- "AsomedataB" will be recognised and displayed
- correctly.
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- Example:
- "A$12345B"
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- EAN 13 EAN 13 EAN 13
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- European Article Numbering barcode 13 digit.
- Simular to the UPC-A barcode in height, width and
- number of bars. It does however allow a 13th digit to
- be encoded into the barcode. The entire code comprises
- 12 user digits plus an EAN checkdigit. Keep in mind
- that EAN scanners can read EAN and UPC barcodes, but a
- UPC scanner might not be able to read an EAN barcode.
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- EAN 8 EAN 8 EAN 8
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- European Article Numbering barcode 8 digit. Same
- characteristics as the UPC-A barcode, but is smaller
- and allows only 7 user digits and an EAN check digit.
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- Code 128 Code 128 Code 128
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- Code 128 was introduced in 1981 as a very high
- density alphanumeric symbology. It is a variable
- length, continuous code employing multiple element
- widths. Code 128 has 3 different character sets. In
- this version of WBAR, only character set B is used.
- Character set B contains the full ASCII set of
- printable characters.
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- FIM (Facing Identification Mark) FIM (Facing Identification Mark) FIM (Facing Identification Mark)
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- See explanation under Special/FIM above.
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- ST E L LA R T E C H N O L O G I E S M A K E S N O W A R R A N T I E S , E X P R E S S
- O R I M P L I E D , A N D S P E C I F I C A LL Y D I S C L A I M S A N Y I M P L I E D
- W A R R A N T I E S O F M E R C H A N T A B I L I T Y O R F I T N E S S F O R A N Y
- P A R T I C U L A R P U R P O S E . S T E L L A R T E C H N O L O G I E S F U R T H E R
- R E S E R V E S T H E R I G H T T O M A K E C H A N G E S T O T H E
- S P E C I F I C A T I O N S O F T H E P R O D U C T W I T H O U T O B L I G A T I O N
- T O N O T I F Y A N Y P E R S O N O R O R G A N I Z A T I O N O F S U C H
- C H A N G E S . L I M I T A T I O N O F L I A B I L I T Y : T he C u s t o m e r ' s
- s o l e r e m e di e s a r e s e t f o r th i n t h e w a r r a n ty c la u s e
- a b o v e . S t e ll ar T e c h no l o g ie s li a b il i t y fo r d a ma g e s
- sh a l l n o t e x c e e d t h e c u r r e n t r e g i s t r a t i o n fe e fo r
- th e Pr o du c t . I n n o e v e n t wi ll S te ll a r T ec h n o l og i e s
- be l i a b l e f o r an y s p e c i a l , i n c i d e n t a l o r
- c o ns eq ue nt ia l d am a g e s e ve n i f S t el la r T e c h no l og ie s
- has been advised of the possibility of the same.
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- Comments and inquiries may be
- sent to me through Compuserve ID number
- 74516,2776
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- or to:
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- Stellar Technologies
- c/o Stu Gisburne
- 2510 Metro Blvd.
- St. Louis, MO 63043
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- Revision History
- =====================
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- Version 1.0 - 07-14-90 - Pastes UPC-A bar code to the
- clipboard
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- Version 1.1 - 08-05-90 - Added 3 of 9 barcode
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- Version 1.2 - 08-22-90 - Added Postnet barcode
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- Version 1.3 - 09-13-90 - Added monochrome bitmap
- capabilites to allow pastes into Corel
- Draw 1.21
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- Version 1.4 - 11-30-90 - Added Interleaved 2 of 5 barcode
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- Version 1.5 - 01-21-91 - Included documentation with file
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- Version 1.6 - 02-17-91 - Fixed Postnet, incorrectly
- calculated check digit when the sum of
- digits in the zipcode was zero.
- - Added Windows Metafile capabilites.
- This enables Wbar to produce exact size
- barcodes and sets up Wbar for future
- Dynamic Data Exchange with other
- programs.
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- Version 1.7 - 02-24-91 - Added Codabar, EAN13, EAN8,
- Codabar
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- Version 1.8 - 03-15-91 - Added Bookland EAN which is a
- variation of EAN13. Also better
- positioning of readable data in barcode.
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- Version 1.9 - 04-13-91 - Added Postal FIM patterns
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- Version 1.95 06-08-91 - Added WBAR Help system
- - Added Code 128
