I was reading about barcodes, just a general query I came up with:
Does the length of barcode image change because of the text in it?
For eg: will the length of a barcode with 986262 be different than 111111?
Generally speaking, you can consider barcodes "monospaced". The only cases for which this isn't true are when a character needs an escape code to be represented.
For example in Code 128B, you need to escape to Code 128A to issue a control character like TAB, or in Code 128A you need to switch temporarily to Code 128B to embed a lowercase alphabetical character.
Is there a way to change a space between characters? Some ttf font strings look very compressed.
The maximum closest thing I've managed to find is cc.FontDefinition
But it doesn't look like it contains anything specific I need.
As far as I know there is no method to change space between characters but you can change letters position via accessing it.
label.getLetter(index);
returns the character as a sprite. And then you can set its position.
I have to print data from DATA_FIELD that can contain between 5 to 50 characters
and label can fit just 20 letters
due i have right to left spelling words i have to print always top 20 letters from right other wise ill loose 1st words of customer name and its usually most important because contains name of the customer
for example i have a code
^FO40,240^A#N,40,40,E:DAVIDBD.FNT
^FD%%Depositor%%
^FS
thats depositor name is:
i dont know why its so long name -- can be variable
and i have to print always last 20 letters as:
its so long name --can be variable
will be happy to get any tips or help
Regards
There really isn't much ZPL can do to help. ZPL is really a page description language, not a programming language.
You will need to process the string to the correct length before adding it to your label code. If you are not using a mono spaced font, then you will have to accommodate for the variable character width.
If you are using a monospaced font you simply have to know how many characters will fit in the area you are trying to print.
If you can wrap text, you might make use of the Use the ^FB – Field Block command in the manual
I'm not expert in Delphi and I'm trying to add "Extended ASCII String" broken into individual character and then add into the TSgringGrid.Cells[x,y]. Some of the characters are getting displayed but rest of the characters are not shown in these cells. Another way for me is to convert these characters in Hex-Mode and then show it but this is not Required.
ChartSet used was OEM_CHARSET and Font = Terminal. I simply wish to display all 255 characters in Cell. Basically I wanted to created the Binary Editor like Edit.com in Delphi/ Lazarus which is available in XP.
I used AnsiToUtf8(chr(i)) and it was solved.
I print a text using ZPL but they are printed incorrectly. It has gaps in the middle. They are printed correctly to the real printer via the ZebraDesigner. But they are wrong when printing via ZPL:
^FT246,70^A0R,16,16
^FB900,2,,
^FDMaisstaerke, Austernuce, Cashewnuss,Pilz, Mais, Lattich, Pack Choi,Sojasprossen^FS
It is printed as 'Maisstaerke, Austernuce, Cashewnuss,Pilz, Mais, Lattich, Pack Choi, Sojasprossen'
(there is a big gap after 'Mais,').
http://screencast.com/t/sTiaxC3cMg
http://screencast.com/t/0QkypnsPyF89
Please help.
Thanks
I'm unable to reproduce the issue, but the field block width seems rather large; you didn't specify any label dimensions in the original post. If you use the following code--a combination from the original post and your comments:
^XA
^PW560
^LL560
^LS0
^FO246,70^GB28,300,,^FS
^FT246,70^A0R,16,16 ^FB300,2,, ^FDMaisstaerke, Austernuce, Cashewnuss,Pilz, Mais, Lattich, Pack Choi,Sojasprossen^FS
^PQ1,0,1,Y
^XZ
I can reproduce what is possibly the issue--the field block automatic word wrapping--by reducing the field block width to 300 dots.
I also drew a box around the block for visualization. You can test in on the Labelary Viewer.
Finally, if you're somehow composing the data make sure there are no special (non printable, such as tab, non-UTF-8 or accented) characters in it, and if so, you will have to pre-escape them.