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Printing a barcode font no longer works properly

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Thomas Paine
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I have been using a true type font "3 of 9 barcode" to print mailing labels on an internal website using the following css for some time:

.barcode { font-family: "3 of 9 Barcode", Times, serif; font-size:36px; }

After upgrading to Firefox 5 it stopped working. This currently renders the font correctly on the page but when I try to print the page it uses Wingdings. This is happening on multiple computers and multiple printers. The font is installed on all the computers and I've even tried using @font-face with no success.

Screenshot of Firefox properly rendering the barcdoe font.

What happens when I try to print. In this case I printed to PDF but the same thing happens when printing to a normal printer. Printing in the latest versions of Chrome & IE9 works properly though not in Safari.

3 of 9 Barcode font

I have been using a true type font "3 of 9 barcode" to print mailing labels on an internal website using the following css for some time: .barcode { font-family: "3 of 9 Barcode", Times, serif; font-size:36px; } After upgrading to Firefox 5 it stopped working. This currently renders the font correctly on the page but when I try to print the page it uses Wingdings. This is happening on multiple computers and multiple printers. The font is installed on all the computers and I've even tried using @font-face with no success. [http://www.thomaspainerants.com/firefox_barcode_works.png Screenshot of Firefox properly rendering the barcdoe font.] [http://www.thomaspainerants.com/firefox_barcode_broken.png What happens when I try to print]. In this case I printed to PDF but the same thing happens when printing to a normal printer. Printing in the latest versions of Chrome & IE9 works properly though not in Safari. [http://www.thomaspainerants.com/3_OF_9_BARCODE.TTF 3 of 9 Barcode font]

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cor-el
cor-el
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Do you see that font in the print preview?

It works for me on Linux if I print to a PDF file.

Thomas Paine
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It looks fine in print preview as well. It's just when I print to printer/PDF that it's messed up.

Thomas Paine
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I should mention that this works in Chrome but Safari does the same thing.

I've created a simple version of the html though it requires that you install the font linked above :

<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html > <body> <span style="font-family: '3 of 9 Barcode', Times, serif; font-size:36px;">*396849*</span> </body> </html>

I've attached images of what it looks like (for me) in the browser vs. printing.

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tuberider
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I have this problem as well, worked fine in v3. I have barcode font installed called "IDAutomationHC39M" on the server using @face-font. When I do a print preview I do not see the font and the font does not print on print out. Works fine in IE8 and Chrome.

/Martin

Thomas Paine
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Abandon all hope yee who enter this thread. Abandon hope for mozilla fixing the issue that is. I went with a jQuery based bmp generator. It's pretty easy to implement and has worked well for me.

download: http://code.google.com/p/jquery-barcode/downloads/detail?name=jquery.barcode.0.3.js&can=2&q=

demo : http://jquery-barcode.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/jquery-barcode/demo/demo.html

Implementation:

Put these includes in your header:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.barcode.0.3.js"></script>


Everything that needs to be a barcode should have the same class. I chose "barcode39".

<span class="barcode39">405479</span>

<span class="barcode39">405339</span>

<span class="barcode39">405341</span>

Then run this script at the bottom:

<script> $('.barcode39') .barcode({code:'code39'}); </script>