how to generate ur own barcode

Barcode labels are easily readable by optical scanners. It is useful for operations wherein a manual reading is slower than a machine reading. Think of grocery cashier lanes and department stores – barcodes help them a lot to speed up the overall process. Most people actually don’t know how it is generated. We don’t need a special machine to create or print a barcode label. Barcodes are just plain text using a barcode font.

One of the fonts you can try is from http://www.dobsonsw.com where you can download the zipped freeware 128 font. After downloading and unzipping, copy the two .ttf files into C:\Windows\Fonts directory:

Once the above is done you can now use the two true type fonts (TTF) using any word editor. On the example below I used MS Word:

You can see from above that the two fonts are now under my list of fonts. MS Office programs use the C:\Windows\Fonts to generate the choices of fonts for MS Word. If you want to add any font, make sure the font file is in the directory shown below:

You can see below sample where I typed 1234567890 using the Code128 font:

The trick that you can use is to type in the characters using a human understandable font (i.e. Arial, Helvetica) then after you typed in the whole thing, convert the font to the barcode font.

Basically the whole thing is just installing a new font and then using it on MS Word or any word processor. You can print the barcodes into sticker papers so you can cut the labels out and paste it on whatever items you want. You can always put in a regular font along with the barcode font as aide.