Welcome to the BarcodeMaker Help System!

This help file will give you an overview of the product and a step-by-step description on the generation of barcodes with BarcodeMaker. Please refer to the provided manual for background information. Please see also the links to our website at the bottom of this document. Provided on our site are workshops, tutorials, barcode intros and many other documents and samples that will help you get the most out of BarcodeMaker.

In the context of this document, useful background info as well as tips and tricks are indicated by a

What is BarcodeMaker?

BarcodeMaker enables you to generate almost every common barcode directly from within your Windows Application, be it a word processor, a spreadsheet, a database system or a DTP layout program.

 

How does BarcodeMaker work?

During installation a collection of fonts were installed on your PC that, when properly used, build the bars and spaces that make up a barcode. Accompanying the fonts is the "BarcodeMaker", an application that calculates checksums if desired and performs all formatting and conversion on your data required to generate a valid barcode.

Basically the fonts supplied with BarcodeMaker are just that, plain fonts. That means if you launch MS Word, enter "1234567", select this string and change the font to, say, Code EAN, you will see some bars and spaces that may look like a "real" barcode. However, unless the code you selected is very simple this procedure will not lead to a valid code, that is if you print the code most likely it will not be recognizable by any barcode scanner. Hence the need for the "BarcodeMaker" application that formats your data accordingly.

See the following link for a step-by-step description on how to create a single valid barcode:

Create a single valid barcode

While many applications require only a single barcode to be converted and displayed, sometimes the need may arise to create a great number of codes at a time. You may for instance want to convert the complete column of an MS Excel sheet into barcodes. See the following link for a step-by-step description on how to handle this task:

Create more than one barcode at a time

Licensing issues:

BarcodeMaker is available as a single user license, as a multi-user license and as an unlimited site license. Also available are licenses for developers who wish to distribute our fonts with their applications. See our website for details.

 

Visit us on the web: http://www.pro-barcode.com