My principal address book in FM 5 for Windows started as a db in FM v 1.0 for Mac. I have a Barcode field which worked with free Postnet barcode font for the Mac years ago. I now want to get this going again on a W2K machine. I downloaded a sample Postnet barcode font pack, and when I use it, I get a "thin vertical box" at the end of each printed barcode. The following is the calculation formula which I had left over from days of old for HoBarCode field:

If(Length(HoZip)=5,"I"&Left(HoZip,5) & HoCorrectionDigit & "I","I" & Left(HoZip,5) & Right(HoZip,4) & HoCorrectionDigit & "I")

The formula for HoCorrectionDigit is:

Right(100-(Middle(HoZip,1,1)+Middle(HoZip,2,1) + Middle(HoZip,3,1) + Middle(HoZip,4,1) + Middle(HoZip,5,1) + Middle(HoZip,7,1) + Middle(HoZip,8,1) + Middle(HoZip,9,1) + Middle(HoZip,10,1)),1)

Can anyone tell me how I need to fix this to make the barcode print out properly. Many thanks in advance to someone with more expertise

Erik Hansen

Los Angeles

Just a guess, but perhaps this box is put there because it's a sample font and they want to force you to buy the full version?

You may well be right. I carefully checked the output from the calculation field above and the proper barcode symbols are being printed (I didn't do the calculation to see if the check digit at the end is correct) but the boxes are on each end. I crawled all over the IDAutomation web site looking for answers--there wasn't one--and have sent them an email asking about it. I hope you are right since this seems to do what I need done. $139 seems like a lot of money for a font but I guess that's life in the big city.

Erik