Corel Barcode Wizard Help : Creating bar codes
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To create a bar code, you must choose an industry-standard format and specify the digits that the Barcode wizard encodes. You can create various types of bar codes, including 13-digit ISBN bar codes. You can edit a bar code at a later time.
Changing industry-standard properties
When you generate a bar code, you can change many of the industry-standard properties to improve the ease with which it can be read by a scanner. The bar code must be readable the first time it is passed under a scanner.
The look of a bar code is affected by five settings: printer resolution, bar width reduction, magnification, bar height, and the wide-to-narrow ratio.
Printing distortions that affect the bar code measurements may occur. You can set the bar width reduction — the number of pixels subtracted from the original bar width — to prevent any distortions. Magnification increases the size of the entire image, while bar height changes only the height of the bars. Wide-to-narrow ratio refers to the distance between wide bars and spaces and the narrow bars. A high ratio makes the bar code wider and easier to scan.
You can change the font, weight, alignment, and size text options.
You can change the appearance of a bar code by changing the bar code options. For example, you can place add-on text at the bottom or at the top of a bar code, center check digits, and show start and stop characters.
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In CorelDRAWCorel DESIGNER, click Edit  Insert Barcode. |
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Font, Size, and Weight — lets you determine the appearance of the type |
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Alignment — lets you choose the alignment of text that appears under the bar code |
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Center sys/check — lets you vertically center the system and check digits on the bar code symbol. The system digit appears before the bar code symbol, and the check digit appears after the bar code symbol. |
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Show add-on text — lets you print the text associated with the add-on bar code. Add-on bar codes do not apply to all bar code formats. |
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Show Quiet Zone marks — lets you print the quiet zone marks. The quiet zone is the clear area (free from marks) before and after the bars and spaces. |
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Place text above — lets you print the human-readable text above the bar code symbol |
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Show FACT data — lets you print Federation of Automated Coding Technologies (FACT) data |
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Show asterisks — lets you print asterisks before and after the bar code text. Asterisks do not apply to all bar code formats. |
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Show start/stop — lets you print the start and stop characters. The start character indicates the beginning of the symbol. The stop character indicates the end of the symbol. |
The completed bar code is added to the drawing as an object.
Wide bar codes are read more accurately than narrow bar codes.
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In CorelDRAWCorel DESIGNER, click Edit Insert Barcode. |
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Click Advanced, and in the Advanced options dialog box, enable one of the following options: |
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Click OK, and then click Next. |
To edit the bar code directly, cut the bar code, and paste it back into CorelDRAWCorel DESIGNER as a Windows metafile (WMF).
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In CorelDRAWCorel DESIGNER, select a bar code, and double-click it. |
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