I have an application that generates barcode in image format and it is read by some devices and fails in others.
The problem now that the barcode image is pixilated so the barcode reader can't read it and i have decided to change barcode from image to font to overcome this problem as font barcode is readable from all readers (that I am using).
I face now a problem, when I setup the driver of the printer (Zebra TLP) at my PC (64-bit) and set it as a default printer, the font Code128 appeared in fonts list at MS Office Word application but in VS2010 doesn't appear, I need to use the font of the printer (Code128) to use it and generate barcode. How can I do that?
I don't know if the problem is clear to you or not? But I have to generate a font barcode in .net 2010 at Telerik reports.
I downloaded a code128 true type font here and have used it in a few apps since. This page also gave good data for computing checksums for code128.
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Is there a software for testing & previewing labels, like the "ZPL Designer for ZPL language", but TSPL/TSPL2 language instead?
It would better to preview the labels instead of unnecessarily test printing labels.
Thanks
Seems some or all TSC printers are compatible with ZPL, so you can just convert to ZPL, and Preview with Labelary.com. You may have to enable the setting in the printer's UI.
Else, if they are anything like Zebra printers, you can log into them through the network, manage the flash storage, and preview labels through that.
I use FastReport3.5 in my Delphi7 program to show reports.
Sometime when I preview my report the program freezes.
When I change the RichEdit font, I can preview the report normally.
I thought the RichEdit component didn't support Chinese very well, but when I changed the font to Tahoma, the problem happened again.
This problem appeared two more times. All I could do was change the RichEdit font, but I do not think changing the font is the best method to resolve the problem.
Try to use latest FR 5.6.2
If problem still exists - create small demo project with problem and send it to support#fast-report.com
does anybody know how to render these emoticons in Windows given the unicode charcode?
It looks like this icons or font are native to apple (as sayed here) but I don't know which one I can choose to render these glyphs in Windows
Thanks
If whatever you're using to display your text is working correctly and the user has a suitable font installed, then you don't need to do anything. Font substitution will take care of that and choose a font that contains glyphs for those characters.
Windows since 8.1 ships with Segoe UI Emoji, however, if you absolutely need a font to specify explicitly.
I have a good free desktop font and it is free also for font embedding on the web.
The font uses Arabic Unicode and it is TrueType desktop font.
I want to use this font on my website. The problem that most web font converters or generators like font squirrel and typeface.js render the letters separately, not linked together.
I used this Unicode ranges to create the web fonts:
FE70-FEFF,0600-06FF,FB50-FDFF,0750-077F,0621-0652
This should convert all Arabic Unicode characters and should make the letters linked together or attached together like what happen on desktop font but that does not happen.
Can I just use the desktop font file itself without converting it?
What is the difference between a regular desktop font and web embedded font?
BTW, the font desktop file is only 27kb and I tested it in Firefox. It is working great if installed on the system (of course it is on my computer).
Yes, you can use the ttf file itself. Most browsers, except Internet Explorer 8 and lower, support this format.
To support IE8 as well, you must transform the font into an eot file and upload that too. Can't really recommend any specific font converter, having no experience with Arabic fonts, but I'm sure there must be others except fontsquirrel. Have you tried FontForge?
Anyway, in my experience, font files downloaded and installed into the user's system work far better than web fonts, because font support from within the browsers is far from optimal. Some fonts work, others don't with no indication why, yet others don't display well (with the wrong spacing, or as if there is no hinting, etc).
So if you do use a web font, make sure you a) test thoroughly in many different browsers, and b) provide good fallback fonts in the css, in case your webfont doesn't work.
I'm now learning iPhone development with Monotouch and use Mono Develop for IDE. Everything works fine and I'm going to buy a license for MonoTouch. However, the IDE can not display Thai text correctly.
It just display [] that is difficult for me to type message in Thai. Although this text display correct in runtime (iPhone Simulator).
I think this problem occurs in MonoDevelop.
Please could you help me to solve this problem.
PS. I tried everything that I can do. For example, change file format to UTF 8 , 16 and copy text from other programs that display Thai text correctly.
I'm looking forward to hearing from you
Theeranit
Unfortunately, the library that MonoDevelop uses for font rendering on Mac, called Pango, has problems with font fallbacks. That means that if the primary font doen't contain the character you want, it can't fall back to another font for that character.
You can work around this by setting a custom font in MonoDevelop preferences. Set it to a font that contains Thai characters.