For the past year and a half, we have slowly been updating our catalogue of products with barcodes and case labels from a 3rd party site, GS1UK. It's great as it generates the barcodes for us as an .eps format and it's really easy to use. Recently, we have changed the paper that we print our labels on, from a Gloss to Matt, and now all of these barcodes that previously worked on Gloss and Plain fail.
I have tried using Corel's "Insert Barcode" feature, yet never seem to have any luck. When entering exactly the same barcode number, the numbers are replaced with [] boxes, but I have the font.. and there is no other way to change the font - real confused.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Does the OCR-B font work properly if you create simple text with it? The best guess I can think of is that you might have that font in both type 1 and OT or TTF formats. WIndows often gets completely confused if you do that. I would try searching and deleting every OCR-B font you can find, make sure they are deleted even from the waste bin and hidden folders, delete and rebuild the bitstream font catalogue (it has an fdb extension) and install only the most trustworthy OCR-B font that you have. See what happens then.
Yeah, if I type when selecting the OCR-B 10 font, it displays it like any other font. I'll try have a go at removing all the OCR-B fonts and follow the steps you suggest. Interesting to note that when I exported the barcode as a jpeg (for the preview window), the numbers appeared.
Current Workaround - Insert Barcode with correct numbers, only for it to display with [] instead. Export the barcode as .EPS, and then import it back into the document for the numbers to display (although import as Editable -> Text was selected, it looks as if all the numbers are converted to curves. My colleague's computer has exactly the same spec, same Coreldraw Version, same font list yet his machine displays the numbers after "inserting Barcode". Have done an F8 reset with no changes. Bizarre
Hi Arial,
Your method worked! and seems quicker than my workaround. Is there a way that It will remember this in the future. I did notice that on a few barcodes, the text actually overlaps the barcode lines...