FileMaker Plug-In for Mac or PC to create 2D PDF417 and Datamatrix barcodes

	Barcode 2D for Filemaker
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Installation for Apple Macintosh (Mac OS 7-9 and OSX inc 10.3 & 10.4)

Filemaker 4-5-6: Drag Peninsula Barcode 2D Plugin (Carb) from the Mac Plugin folder to the FileMaker Extensions Folder in the FileMaker Folder.

Filemaker 7 & 8: Drag Peninsula Barcode 2D Plugin (Carb) from the Mac Plugin folder to the Extensions Folder in the FileMaker Folder.

Mac OS 7-9: Drag Barcode2D.suit to your fonts folder in your system folder.

Mac OS X: Drag Barcode2D.suit from the fonts folder in this folder to your fonts folder in your Library folder.

Then restart FileMaker to see the plug in and font.

Instalation For Windows (98,ME,2000,XP,2005) PC's

Filemaker 4-5-6: Drag Barcode2D.fmx from the Windows Plugin folder to the System folder inside the Filemaker folder on your hard disk

Filemaker 7 & 8: Drag Barcode2D.fmx from the Windows Plugin folder to the Extensions folder inside the Filemaker folder on your hard disk

Drag barcode2D.ttf onto your fonts section of the control panels in the start menu.

Then restart FileMaker to see the plug in and font.

To Make the Barcodes

Go into layout mode by pressing Apple L on a mac or Ctrl L on a PC.

1. Choose File > Define Fields on Filemaker 4-5-6
Choose File > Define > Database on Filemaker 7.

Type "Datafield" into the field name box as shown in fig5.
Create a text field by selecting text as the field type, (n.b. in a popup menu on Filemaker 7 & 8).

fig5

2. Click Create.

3. Make a New Calculation Field choosing Calculation as the type for the field, (n.b. in a popup menu on Filemaker 7 & 8).

4. Then type a name for your field and select Create (In our example we have used "New calculation field") fig 6.

Fig 6

5. Create will take you to the calculation field preferences (fig 7).

Choose "Text" from the "Calculation result is" popup menu.

6. To set your calculation field prefrences choose 'External functions' from the view drop down menu in the top right hand corner then scroll down to 'External("Barcode2D-PDF417",parameter)' and select it(As shown in fig 7). Then replace parameter with Datafield.
Then click OK

Fig 7

Notes
a. On your system the comma ( , ) may be a semi-colon ( ; ).
b. Datafield is the name of the field where you want to get the data for the barcode from this can be any field in your database.

7. You should now have 2 fields like those shown in fig 8.

Fig 8

7. Click Done on Filemaker 4 - 5 - 6 or OK on Filemaker 7 & 8. This will take you back to the layout.

To Finish Setting Up

You will now have a new field on your layout.

• Select the new field on the layout.
• Now select Format > Font > Barcode2D from the menu bar to set the font for your field to barcode2D as shown in fig 9.

fig 9

• Select Format > size > 10pt to set the font size to ten points.
• Select Format > Line Spacing > Custom, This will take you to fig 10.
• Select pixels from the dropdown menu to the left of the Height field
• Set the Height field to 10 pixels (fig 10).

fig 10

• Click OK

This returns you to layout page with the barcode field now setup.

Choose Browse Mode (Apple B on the Mac, Ctrl B on Windows) to view your barcode which is now ready for printing(fig 11).

fig 11

There are a lot of other options you can apply to the barcode using Barcode2D for FileMaker, but if you just need a simple barcode this is all you need to do.

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