Re: Integrating Bar Codes with WebDNA
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2006
It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = Hi John, Thank you for all the info below. I think I understand what you're asking now (and your questions are helping me better understand how this works). We're a retailer and merely want to generate barcodes for some of the products we carry (some already have a barcode from their manufacturer but some do not). So basically, it would be used for internal purposes only. In looking through the FAQ, it appears that we could just use the Code 39 or Code 128 font for our purposes. Thanks, Tana -----Original Message----- From: WebDNA Talk [mailto:WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com]On Behalf Of John Peacock Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 9:54 AM To: WebDNA Talk Subject: Re: Integrating Bar Codes with WebDNA Tana Adams wrote: > I did find your reference (from 2000) in the talklist archive giving a URL > that offers free barcodes (http://www.unibar.com/eBARZ_WEBDEMO.htm). I'm > just looking into that now. So my concern now is a) generating barcodes for > roughly 10,000 SKUs and b) talking to the barcode software to get the SKU > into the shopping cart. You are still talking about *how* you want to accomplish something, rather than *what* you want to accomplish. You cannot simply generate barcodes for your SKU's (unless you intend to use them strictly internally, see the FAQ listed below). Barcodes are merely machine readable numbers (and possibly letters); nothing more. There are several different international organizations that regulate how you use barcodes in commerce: ISBN - International Standard Book Number UPC - Uniform Product Code (America only) EAN - The internation version of UPC Bookland EAN - a merger of the ISBN and EAN coding, soon to replace ISBN worldwide (in the stupidest possible way)[1] See this page for more details: http://www.adams1.com/pub/russadam/new.html This site contains a wealth of information about barcodes in general. John 1. The ISBN-13 address space (the number of available numbers) is rapidly filling up, so in order to expand the number of available numbers, the standards body is adopting the equivalent of the Bookland EAN by adding three more digits to the front of the existing ISBN (and changing the checksum). What is stupid about it is that they are adding a _fixed_ set of digits 978, which makes the number longer, but doesn't increase the number of available unique ISBN's in the slightest. "This one goes to eleven" explains it completely... ;-) -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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Hi John, Thank you for all the info below. I think I understand what you're asking now (and your questions are helping me better understand how this works). We're a retailer and merely want to generate barcodes for some of the products we carry (some already have a barcode from their manufacturer but some do not). So basically, it would be used for internal purposes only. In looking through the FAQ, it appears that we could just use the Code 39 or Code 128 font for our purposes. Thanks, Tana -----Original Message----- From: WebDNA Talk [mailto:WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com]On Behalf Of John Peacock Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 9:54 AM To: WebDNA Talk Subject: Re: Integrating Bar Codes with WebDNA Tana Adams wrote: > I did find your reference (from 2000) in the talklist archive giving a URL > that offers free barcodes (http://www.unibar.com/eBARZ_WEBDEMO.htm). I'm > just looking into that now. So my concern now is a) generating barcodes for > roughly 10,000 SKUs and b) talking to the barcode software to get the SKU > into the shopping cart. You are still talking about *how* you want to accomplish something, rather than *what* you want to accomplish. You cannot simply generate barcodes for your SKU's (unless you intend to use them strictly internally, see the FAQ listed below). Barcodes are merely machine readable numbers (and possibly letters); nothing more. There are several different international organizations that regulate how you use barcodes in commerce: ISBN - International Standard Book Number UPC - Uniform Product Code (America only) EAN - The internation version of UPC Bookland EAN - a merger of the ISBN and EAN coding, soon to replace ISBN worldwide (in the stupidest possible way)[1] See this page for more details: http://www.adams1.com/pub/russadam/new.html This site contains a wealth of information about barcodes in general. John 1. The ISBN-13 address space (the number of available numbers) is rapidly filling up, so in order to expand the number of available numbers, the standards body is adopting the equivalent of the Bookland EAN by adding three more digits to the front of the existing ISBN (and changing the checksum). What is stupid about it is that they are adding a _fixed_ set of digits 978, which makes the number longer, but doesn't increase the number of available unique ISBN's in the slightest. "This one goes to eleven" explains it completely... ;-) -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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