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Easily add professional quality bar codes to documents or labels created with any Windows program. Extremely easy-to-use. Enter a message, click your mouse, and your bar codes are instantly displayed on screen and copied to the clipboard for pasting into other programs. Automate barcode labeling and production in Word, Access and other Windows applications with B-Coder Pro.

Note: For printing barcodes from Microsoft Access database reports and labels, Visual Basic programs and other applications that support ActiveX technology, please visit our new TAL Bar Code ActiveX Control product page.

B-Coder Pro is an extremely easy-to-use program that generates professional quality barcodes of all major symbologies and any size. Easily incorporate bar code technology into any Windows program - MS Word, Access, WordPerfect, Quark, PageMaker, etc.

Key Features

• Easily adds professional quality bar codes to any Windows application.
• Supports all major bar code symbologies, including 2-D symbologies.
• Full control over all bar code dimensions and features.
• Support for color, rotation, bar width reduction and other features of bar codes.
• Creates bar codes in any graphic format WMF, EPS, GIF, etc.
• Automates bar code production in MS Word, Access and other Windows applications.

Ease of Use

Instead of dealing with expensive and complicated bar code label design programs, simply paste perfect bar codes into the programs that you already know how to use!

B-Coder Pro even adds barcode options right into your MS Word Tools Menu to automate barcode labeling, etc. Sample macros for Word and Access allow you to easily automate barcode production in these applications.

Bar codes can be printed to any printer supported by Windows, i.e. over 250 different printer types.

The easy-to-use manual has a tutorial on bar code technology. Unlimited technical support is also provided free.

Versatility

B-Coder allows complete control over all aspects of bar code production.

Choose from any font available on your system for human readable text, select from 16 million colors for bar codes, background and text. Select height and width, Bar Width Reduction, rotation, supplemental messages, automatic check digits, rotation, measurement units, etc.

Advanced Features

B-Coder Pro recognizes a complete set of Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) commands that allow other Windows programs to automatically generate and retrieve bar codes. For example, automate bar code labeling from any word processor or database.

Incremental Numbering (Auto Sequencing) and message input from disk files are also fully supported.

Features

The sample macros provided with B-Coder Pro add the following features and more...

• Highlight text in Word and with the click of a button convert it to a barcode.
• Automate serialized and/or high quantity barcode labeling in Word and Access.
• Also create barcodes from database data.
• Merge data and barcodes into documents and labels

In addition, B-Coder Pro can automate barcode production in any DDE supporting application that accepts pasting of WMF graphics. Sample macros for other applications (Excel, WordPerfect, etc.) are also provided free.

In addition B-Coder Pro can automate barcode production in any DDE supporting application that accepts pasting of WMF graphics. Sample macros for other applications (Excel, WordPerfect, etc.) are also provided free. See SET-UP STEPS for how to use with any application.

Bar Code Symbologies Supported by B-Coder Professional

• Code 39 (Normal, Full ASCII & HIBC)
• UPC A
• UPC E
• EAN 8
• EAN 13 (+Booklan)
• Interleaved 2 of 5 (ITF)
• Code 128
• Code 93
• EAN/UCC 128
• PostNET