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IDAutomation Interleaved 2 of 5 Barcode Font Advantage DEMO

A license is required for each computer this software is installed on;
this software may only be used according to the License Agreement.
Demo versions of this software may be used for evaluation purposes only

DEMO VERSION NOTE:
The sample barcode fonts in the demo version should only be used for testing and evaluation purposes because some of the characters contain the "DEMO" watermark which can cause scan errors. For testing purposes, a successful scan may be obtained by scanning the lower portion of the barcode that does not contain any watermarks. In the evaluation version package, fonts are only provided in the "S", "L" and "XXL" heights. Other fonts such as the human readable and the bearer bar fonts are only provided in the "M" or "L" height. After the fully functional version is ordered, all fonts are supplied in their various different heights.

INDEX:

Interleaved 2 of 5 Symbology Overview

Symbology basics:

Symbology information relating to check digits:

Interleaved 2 of 5 Font Advantage Package Features

Details of the Interleaved 2 of 5 Font Advantage Package are as follows:

Installation Instructions

To install the TrueType fonts in Windows, run the INSTALL.EXE program or perform the following for manual installation: 

  1. Click on Start, Select settings and click on Control Panel.
  2. Click on Fonts, Click on File in the main tool bar, Select Install New Font.
  3. Select the folder where the barcode fonts are to be placed.
  4. The fonts will appear and look like this: FontName (true type) - select the fonts to install and choose OK.
  5. Click Start and choose to shut down and restart the computer.
  6. The font should be active after the computer restarts.

Installing the fonts on Macintosh OS X:

  1. Drag or copy and paste the TrueType font file(s) ending in TTF to the Library/Fonts folder.
  2. To activate the fonts, restart the application - some applications may require restarting the computer.
  3. The font should now be active in the font menu of the application.

To install the TrueType font on the Classic Macintosh (OS 7.1 - OS 9):

  1. If an expander utility that can open ZIP files and decode MacBinary files is not on the Macintosh then download and install Stuffit Expander. 
  2. Open the ZIP distribution file that contains the fonts by dragging the ZIP file on the Stuffit Expander icon. The font files will be extracted from the ZIP distribution file and will appear in a subfolder of the folder where the ZIP file is located. Open this subfolder to view the font files. At this point it would be beneficial to view the documentation supplied with the font files. To do so just drag the file "readme.html" to the Netscape or Internet Explorer icon.
  3. Decode the files from MacBinary format. Drag the font files that end with "mtt" to the Stuffit Expander icon.
  4. Drag the decoded font files to the System - Fonts folder.
  5. Restart the application.
  6. The font will be active in the font menu of the application.
  7. To create the correct output for the font, choose the font in the application and type in the corresponding letter.

Font installation procedures for other operating systems

Printing and the Character Set Chart

Interleaved 2 of 5 as a barcode font may be difficult to implement without one of IDAutomation's Font Tools, due to the required pairing of digits into single characters and an optional checksum. If an easier-to-use barcode font is preferred and Interleaved 2 of 5 is not required, consider IDAutomation's Codabar barcode font which does not require the pairing of digits into characters. IDAutomation also provides many barcode components that may be easier to implement in applications and development environments such as Microsoft® Access, Visual Basic, .NET and Java due to their ability to automatically calculate the checksum and format the barcode.

In the event the systems regional setting is not set to "English" or the 1252 Latin-1 code page, these fonts support the following additional code pages in Windows: 1250 European, 1251 Cyrillic, 1253 Greek, 1254 Turkish, 1255 Hebrew and 1256 Arabic. To obtain a font that is compatible with any operating system, code page and locale, purchase or evaluate the Universal Barcode Font Advantage™, which creates Interleaved 2 of 5 and many other barcodes as a single font.

The following character set is provided for developers that wish to understand how numbers are paired into single digits and where ITF symbols are located within the font. The "ITF Code" column lists the character or function that the barcode scanner will read for the associated symbol. The columns ASCII, Char and Unicode are unique to IDAutomation's Interleaved 2of5 fonts. These columns designate the location in either ASCII or Unicode where the barcode symbol for the character resides. The column "Char" lists the character that resides at the ASCII location which may be used to print the corresponding symbol. To manually create a barcode with this chart, use the following process:

  1. Include the START character: Ë
  2. Include the data characters from the char columns that represent 2 numbers from the ITF code column. For example, the number of 772233 is represented in characters n7B
  3. Include the STOP character: Ì
  4. Combine the resulting text string with the barcode font: Ën7BÌ
ITF Code ASCII * Unicode * Unicode
Char
  ITF Code ASCII * Unicode * Unicode
Char
na 0032 0020 space   51 0084 0054 T
00 0033 0021 !   52 0085 0055 U
01 0034 0022 "   53 0086 0056 V
02 0035 0023 #   54 0087 0057 W
03 0036 0024 $   55 0088 0058 X
04 0037 0025 %   56 0089 0059 Y
05 0038 0026 &   57 0090 005A Z
06 0039 0027 '   58 0091 005B [
07 0040 0028 (   59 0092 005C \
08 0041 0029 )   60 0093 005D ]
09 0042 002A *   61 0094 005E ^
10 0043 002B +   62 0095 005F _
11 0044 002C ,   63 0096 0060 `
12 0045 002D -   64 0097 0061 a
13 0046 002E .   65 0098 0062 b
14 0047 002F /   66 0099 0063 c
15 0048 0030 0   67 0100 0064 d
16 0049 0031 1   68 0101 0065 e
17 0050 0032 2   69 0102 0066 f
18 0051 0033 3   71 0103 0067 g
19 0052 0034 4   71 0104 0068 h
20 0053 0035 5   72 0105 0069 i
21 0054 0036 6   73 0106 006A j
22 0055 0037 7   74 0107 006B k
23 0056 0038 8   75 0108 006C l
24 0057 0039 9   76 0109 006D m
25 0058 003A :   77 0110 006E n
26 0059 003B ;   78 0111 006F o
27 0060 003C <   79 0112 0070 p
28 0061 003D =   80 0113 0071 q
29 0062 003E >   81 0114 0072 r
30 0063 003F ?   82 0115 0073 s
31 0064 0040 @   83 0116 0074 t
32 0065 0041 A   84 0117 0075 u
33 0066 0042 B   85 0118 0076 v
34 0067 0043 C   86 0119 0077 w
35 0068 0044 D   87 0120 0078 x
36 0069 0045 E   88 0121 0079 y
37 0070 0046 F   89 0122 007A z
38 0071 0047 G   90 0123 007B {
39 0072 0048 H   91 0124 007C |
40 0073 0049 I   92 0125 007D }
41 0074 004A J   93 0126 007E ~
42 0075 004B K   94 0197 00C5 Å
43 0076 004C L   95 0198 00C6 Æ
44 0077 004D M   96 0199 00C7 Ç
45 0078 004E N   97 0200 00C8 È
46 0079 004F O   98 0201 00C9 É
47 0080 0050 P   99 0202 00CA Ê
48 0081 0051 Q   START 0203 00CB Ë
49 0082 0052 R   STOP 0204 00CC Ì
50 0083 0053 S          

Font Specifications

Point Size:

IDAutomation's Interleaved 2 of 5 barcode fonts were created to meet ANSI and CEN requirements when printing with a font size of 12 or greater. The X dimension (X is the width of the narrow bar) of IDAutomation's Interleaved 2 of 5 font is listed below for various point sizes. IDAutomation's Interleaved 2 of 5 fonts are specially designed to produce barcodes that consistently scan when printed at all point sizes with a laser printer that is 600 DPI or greater in resolution. When printing at resolutions of 300 DPI or less, IDAutomation recommends the Universal Barcode Font Advantage™ which can still produce ANSI grade A barcode symbols at low resolutions. IDAutomation's Interleaved 2 of 5 fonts are reliably read with the following hardware and pint sizes: 

Point Size

Approximate X dimension (1 mil = .001")

24 .42 mm 16 mil
22 .38 mm 15 mil
20 .34 mm 13 mil
16 .27 mm 11 mil
14 .25 mm 10 mil
12 .21 mm 8 mil
6 .10 mm 4 mil

N Dimension:

The N Dimension (narrow to wide ratio) is 2.75 to 1. To obtain the font that offers other ratios, purchase or evaluate the Universal Barcode Font Advantage™, which has the ability to print more accurately to low resolution printers and supports narrow to wide ratios of 2:1, 2.5:1 and 3:1.

Height and Text Interpretation:

Twelve different versions of the Interleaved 2 of 5 barcode fonts are provided to support human-readable versions and different size requirements. Fonts with the letter "H" in the font name are "human readable" versions. Fonts with the letter "B" in the font name are "bearer bar" versions. The last characters in the name determine the height of the barcode, with the shortest being "XS" and the tallest being "XXL". Because each single font may be printed at various point sizes, there are several height/width combinations that may be produced.

Font name of purchased version Font name of eval version* Font height at 12 points*
Interleaved 2 of 5 Fonts with no text below the barcode:
IDAutomationI25XS NA  1/16" (.078") or .2 cm
IDAutomationI25S IDAutomationSI25S  1/8" (.125") or .4 cm
IDAutomationI25M NA  5/16" (.315") or .8 cm
IDAutomationI25L IDAutomationSI25L  1/2" (.5") or 1.2 cm
IDAutomationI25XL NA  11/16" (.689") or 1.8 cm
IDAutomationI25XXL IDAutomationSI25XXL  1 1/4" (1.25") or 3.1 cm
Interleaved 2 of 5 Fonts with text below the barcode:
IDAutomationHI25XS NA  1/16" (.078") or .2 cm
IDAutomationHI25S NA  1/8" (.125") or .4 cm
IDAutomationHI25M IDAutomationSHI25M  5/16" (.315") or .8 cm
IDAutomationHI25L NA  1/2" (.5") or 1.2 cm
IDAutomationHI25XL NA  11/16" (.689") or 1.8 cm
IDAutomationHI25XXL NA  1 1/4" (1.25") or 3.1 cm
Interleaved 2 of 5 Fonts with bearer bars and no text below the barcode:
IDAutomationBI25XS NA  1/16" (.078") or .2 cm
IDAutomationBI25S NA  1/8" (.125") or .4 cm
IDAutomationBI25M NA  5/16" (.315") or .8 cm
IDAutomationBI25L IDAutomationSBI25L  1/2" (.5") or 1.2 cm
IDAutomationBI25XL NA  11/16" (.689") or 1.8 cm
IDAutomationBI25XXL NA  1 1/4" (1.25") or 3.1 cm
Interleaved 2 of 5 Fonts with bearer bars and text below the barcode:
IDAutomationBHI25XS NA  1/16" (.078") or .2 cm
IDAutomationBHI25S NA  1/8" (.125") or .4 cm
IDAutomationBHI25M IDAutomationSBHI25M  5/16" (.315") or .8 cm
IDAutomationBHI25L NA  1/2" (.5") or 1.2 cm
IDAutomationBHI25XL NA  11/16" (.689") or 1.8 cm
IDAutomationBHI25XXL NA  1 1/4" (1.25") or 3.1 cm
* Measurements are approximate and measured when printed at 12 points which should work for most scanners. Measurements for Human Readable fonts do not include the text below. At 12 points, the X dimension is about 8 mils.

To print at a different height, find the font that has the height closest to what is needed and use this formula to find the appropriate point size:
12 * (height desired) / (height at 12 points) = (point size converted to integer)

For example, if using IDAutomationI25L and the font should be about .75" tall, print it at 18 points:
12 * .75 / .5 = 18

 

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