Printing Interleaved 2 of 5 Barcodes in Crystal Reports
When you need to print barcodes from your Crystal Reports project,it’s fast and easy when you use Azalea Software’s free User Function Library (UFL) along with our TrueType fonts. Our CrystalReports UFL adds the start and stop bars to your input string, calculates the necessary check digit, and then it creates output in our fonts’ character set. It’s necessary to use the UFL to make I2of5 bar codes because you cannot simply format a chunk of text in a bar code font and expect to create a scannable bar code symbol. Azalea’s UFL does all of the heavy lifting for you instead.
1. If you choose a default installation of I2of5Tools for Windows,, the I2of5Tools setup program will install the files you need to use the fonts with Crystal Reports. All you need to do now is open your report with the data you want to convert into barcodes.
2. In Crystal Reports menu choose “create a new formula.”
3. Give your formula a name.
4. Click twice on the function called BarcodeI2of5 and then doubleclick the field name to be barcoded.
5. Choose “Save and Exit” or save and then exit the formula creator.
6. Drag one sample if your formula onto the form. Size the box to fit the point size and width of the barcode you’re making. Format it into, for example, our Interleaved2of5 font at 48 points, which we’ll use in our example.
7. Run your report. It’s that easy.
8. Once you’re ready to print your barcodes, choose “print” and send your report to a local printer as usual. If the output result differs or you see boxes or odd characters, please send a screenshot to technicalsupport at azalea dot com and we’ll be happy to help you get it sorted out.