Azalea Software's Barcode Fonts

Bar code fonts? Why not graphics?

When most of us look at a barcode, we see a picture rather text. We think "graphics" not "fonts".

Here at Azalea, we see the pattern of bars and spaces as letters that represent the individual characters in the barcode. When we look at a bar code we see a chunk of text formatted in one of our symbol fonts. The bars and spaces are like letters in a word.

Why fonts?

Text requires no storage. Graphic files can take up a lot of space. Do you have five thousand product numbers? With graphics, you’d also be storing five thousand image files. Text saves compactly and efficiently.
Manipulating text is fast and is well-suited for repetitive batch runs. Text is quick.
Text works within any application so compatibility is a given. Text is easily manipulated by almost any program on any platform.
Fonts can be printed on a wide variety of printers at many points within your workflow.
Text works between applications and across platforms & fits into most work processes. With bar code fonts you don’t need special software, hardware, firmware, shareware, drivers, doohickeys or widgets. Simply pass your string to our software, format the result into a barcode font and you’ve got a barcode.

If you don't use a font...

When you need to save barcode as a graphic, be sure to use the correct file format. Don't save it as a GIF, TIF and JPEG. These bitmap formats tend to yield lower quality barcodes that won't scan as well. We strongly recommend that you save your barcodes in an EPS or uncompressed PDF file, at highest quality. Another plus to EPS and PDF files is that you can share them with anyone, your coworkers, your printer, your graphic designer, regardless of the platform or application they're using.

For more information, please read this whitepaper too.

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