Having trouble printing barcodes in a report.

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Wayne - 28 May 2008 17:14 GMT

I have a report that has a barcode (3 of 9) on one of the fields.
This report previews fine, but when it prints the barcode isn't there, just
the underlying text.
I have the font installed on my computer, and on the computer hosting RS. I
had thought that it was only needed on the computers running the reports.

The report is being accessed through the web browser interface to the
Reporting Server computer.

I have tried exporting to a pdf, but no luck.
However, if I print the report from preview mode in VS, they do print out.

Any ideas of what needs to be done to print the barcode in the report?

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Jerry H. - 28 May 2008 17:54 GMT

> I have a report that has a barcode (3 of 9) on one of the fields.
> This report previews fine, but when it prints the barcode isn't there, just
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
>
> Any ideas of what needs to be done to print the barcode in the report?

Have you tried installing the barcode font onto the computer that
opens the report via web browser only? using Preview mode from VS
isn't always accurate because the reports, to the best that I can
tell, are rendered locally, not via the RS server.

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Wayne - 28 May 2008 18:02 GMT

I'm using the same computer that I developed the report in to print out the
report from the web browser.

> > I have a report that has a barcode (3 of 9) on one of the fields.
> > This report previews fine, but when it prints the barcode isn't there, just
[quoted text clipped - 14 lines]
> isn't always accurate because the reports, to the best that I can
> tell, are rendered locally, not via the RS server.

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Nicolas Verhaeghe - 28 May 2008 22:33 GMT

When I was the DBA for a publishing company I had to CASS certify and
print the barcode as well.

Although then I used Crystal, I guess it would be the same thing, with
the barcode font.

If it is for postal regulations, I think the USPS even has a font on
their Web site.

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Parker - 29 May 2008 12:01 GMT

On the computer hosting RS, open the font control and open the font
file.

Then, reboot the RS server box.

To be sure, do this on the client computer as well.

We have found this to be sometimes necessary to get the server to work
with a new font

(one of those things that by rights you should probably not have to
do, but for some unknown reason you need to...)

Added note: to see true output for bar code fonts, we find that we
need to deploy the report and run it from the server - the Visual
Studio preview can be off significantly. Again, don't know why....

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