Bartender Barcode Printing Extra Character setting method

For example, in bartender 10.1, the gs1-128 (ucc/ean-128) barcodes used on the UCC-128 shipping box labels required by some large retail stores require extra spaces and parentheses to be added to the user-readable text. These characters are not part of the barcode, so the barcode reader does not read them into the computer.

The specific method of operation is as follows:

You can specify these extra characters and their placement in the data string by using the Character Template dialog box, which can be accessed from a readable conversion of the Readability property page in the barcode properties.

The following illustration shows a simple example of the type of data a project might require (in this case, the price of a product in the store). The barcode contains the numeric data string "1099" and the character template displays "$??.??".

Each question mark in the Template field represents a character in the actual barcode data string. The $ symbol and decimal point represent additional data that will appear in the user-readable text, not the barcode itself.