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Using Barcode Fonts on Internet Web Pages

by Nate Schubert Barcode fonts have long since been the favorite of businesses throughout the world because their flexibility allows use across a wide variety of applications and environments. For example, all IDAutomation font packages include TrueType, OpenType, PCL, and PostScript font formats. Additionally, these fonts may be used in conjunction with any of our…
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Integrating QR Codes into Oracle BI Publisher

Oracle BI Publisher is a powerful reporting tool that many businesses use to get fast, robust, and efficient reporting on all kinds of business processes, revenue streams, inventory tracking projects, and more. Adding QR Codes to Publisher reports may seem difficult due to the complex nature of the environment, but Tim Dexter at Oracle Daily…
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How to Embed Barcode Fonts into Your Website

How Barcode Fonts Work on the Web Virtually everyone is familiar with how normal fonts work. Barcode fonts are largely the same, but they require the data to be run through a font encoder tool before the font can be applied to create a barcode that will scan. IDAutomation provides many font encoder tools that…
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2D Barcode Integration Tips for Adobe InDesign

Adobe InDesign is a powerful application that allows graphic designers, production artists, and others to create print media such as magazines, posters, brochures, and more, in addition to publications intended for digital consumption. Given the business-centric nature of these uses, the integration of 2D barcodes for InDesign is likely to become a necessity for many…
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Barcode Scanners by IDAutomation

By Nate Schubert | Published on: May 8, 2013 IDAutomation offers a wide range of barcode scanners to meet the needs of virtually any environment or scenario, including omnidirectional scanners, portable memory scanners, wireless scanners, and others from dependable manufacturers such as Motorola, Metrologic, Datalogic, and Opticon. These scanners make up our product base because they…
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Generating USPS Intelligent Mail Tracing Barcode Labels

The United States Postal Service recently made the transition from its legacy Confirm Service to IMb Tracing, which allows mailers to access outgoing and incoming reply mailpiece data, such as date, time, location, and sort operation at Postal Service facilities while the mail is en route to its destination. This program allows mailers in a…
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What are the Benefits of Streaming Barcode Images?

Barcodes come in many different shapes and sizes and are capable of encoding virtually any type of data required for the pursuit of improved efficiency in a given business process. There are also a wide variety of fonts, programs, and components that may be utilized to generate and display barcodes for the purpose of scanning…
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How to: Create Barcodes in Cognos

by Nate Schubert Cognos is a software suite from IBM that provides companies with powerful business intelligence and performance management capabilities. By incorporating over 30 software applications, the Cognos Suite makes possible the extraction and analysis of data for top-level reporting and a real edge on the competitive landscape. Adding barcodes to Cognos environments can…
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How DataBar Expanded and GS1 Digital Link can Reduce Food Waste

The prevalence of hunger among the world’s poor is alarming, especially when juxtaposed with the fact that approximately 40% of food in the United States is wasted. Unfortunately, this is not a problem confined to the US alone. Wastage of food is a ubiquitous issue in all parts of the world, where significant amounts of…
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How to Make Barcode Labels

Barcode label printing is a small but critical aspect of virtually any business in operation today. Many companies make barcode labels to affix to their products or documents for more efficient inventory tracking or asset management systems, while others affix barcoded labels to employee IDs or membership cards. Even in the most basic of businesses,…
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