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.
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
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.