*Barcode In Forms*

Question

Hi,
     Can some body say me the step by step process on how to implement the barcode in either sap script or smartforms.
Thank you,
Madhu

Answer 1

1. A documentation on creating System Bar Code and using it in SAPscript layout for printing
1.1. Creating a System Bar Code
u2022     Transaction SE 73 is to be run to enter into u2018SAPscript Font Maintenance: Initial screen.
u2022     u2018System bar codesu2019 radio button is to be selected and change mode is to be clicked for entering data. A new screen named u2018SAPscript Font Maintenance: Change System Bar Codesu2019 will appear.
u2022     In u2018SAPscript Font Maintenance: Change System Bar Codesu2019 screen, u2018System bar Codesu2019 is to be selected from the u2018Header listu2019 and u2018Createu2019 option is to be clicked. A new screen u2018SAPscript Font Maintenance: Create/Change System Bar Codeu2019 will appear.
u2022     In u2018SAPscript Font Maintenance: Create/Change System Bar Codeu2019 screen, all details of barcode viz. Bar code, Description, Bar code type, Minimum character number, Maximum character number, Bar code width, Unit of measurement, Bar code height and Unit of measurement are to be provided as per requirement. Thus any system bar code of desired type can be created.
1.2 Including System Bar Code in Layout
(a)     Character format screen of Layout
Standard attributes like Character format (string), Description and Bar code type are to be provided in Character Format of the layout. Bar code type is already defined during its creation whereas Character format (string) and Description are to be given as per standards.
(b)      Page Window screen of layout
Here the character format (string) of barcode is to be included. For e.g. if character format string is AD and L1 is a paragraph format then in Page Window it should be :
/E   ITEM_LINE
L1 <AD>  &LTAP-MATNR& </>  
In paragraph L1, any sort of tab setting, font setting can be done as per requirement. All these will be reflected in barcode.
Now the System Bar Code is ready for printing.
2. Changing standard bar code height and width:
Since the printer used was of device type HPLJ4000, OSS note 45643 is to be referred.
The note contains the explanation of the control sequences that are stored in the SBPxx print controls in R/3.
First, a custom barcode is created by copying the system bar code C128A_00 using transaction SE73.  Next, corresponding to the printer device type HPLJ4000, our bar code ZC128A_0 is included. Each printer barcode has to contain a prefix and a suffix. Prefix is like SBPxx and suffix are like SBSxx. Print control sequences are maintained in both prefix and suffix. But for our requirement, we need to consider the control sequence for the prefix only.
For the standard device type of HPLJ4000, the prefix for C128A_00 was SBP25 and the suffix was SBS01. For ZC128A_0, the suffix is kept as SBS01. For prefix, a new prefix ZBP25 was created by copying the control sequence of SBP25 and then changing it. The logic for changing the control sequence has been explained below.
The original control sequence for SBP25 was like this:
1B2873317030303068313476352C313062352C313073323437303154
Within this control sequence, height of this barcode is represented by 313476 i.e. 14 point i.e. 14 * 1 / 72 inches. In order to create a barcode of height 3 cm, this was changed to 383476 i.e. 84 point i.e. 84 * 1 / 72 inches.
While increasing the width and the spacing of the barcode, it has to be remembered to do it proportionately otherwise barcode wonu2019t be scannable.
Within this control sequence, width of the (first and second) bars have been represented by 352C313062 i.e. 5 & 10 respectively, i.e. 5 * 1 / 600 inches and  10 * 1 / 600 inches respectively.
We changed it to 31322C323462 i.e. 12 & 24 i.e. 12 * 1 / 600 inches and 24 * 1 / 600 inches respectively.
Within this control sequence, width of the (first and second) spaces have been represented by 352C313073 i.e. 5 & 10 respectively, i.e. 5 * 1 / 600 inches and  10 * 1 / 600 inches respectively.
We changed it to 31322C323473 i.e. 12 & 24 i.e. 12 * 1 / 600 inches and 24 * 1 / 600 inches respectively.
The changed control sequence for prefix ZBP25 looks like this:
1B287331706838347631322C32346231322C323473323437303154
cheers
Aveek