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Hmm, well I'm still missing something. Here is the issue - in the "preview record selector" I can see the barcode string "TTFAD...." however nothing appears on the barcode line in the PDF, although the rest of the record lines do appear..

 

I've selected the IDAutomation 4 state font for that line.

 

I did try changing the font to Arial, and the characters "TTFAD..." did appear in the PDF when previewed.

 

What am I missing here?

 

Thanks!

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Still can't get the IDAutomation4State font to work. However was able to install the USPS Std & Compact IMB's on this machine, and after loading through FusionPro 4X those eventually worked.

 

Could not locate a "font.err" file, nor did I find any mention (recognizable to me) of things gone awry in the log file, when trying the IDAutomation font again.

 

However - the USPS fonts DO work! Why the IDAutomation one does not - I dunno.

 

Thanks to all for your suggestions and assistance.

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Still can't get the IDAutomation4State font to work.

The IDAutomation4State font contains glyphs only for the digits 0, 1, 2, and 3. If you want to use raw data encoded with the letters F, A, T, and D, then you need to convert those letters to the digits, as demonstrated in these threads, all of which are fairly easy to find by searching this forum for "intelligent mail barcode":

http://forums.pti.com/showthread.php?t=747

http://forums.pti.com/showthread.php?t=433

http://forums.pti.com/showthread.php?t=650

 

Could not locate a "font.err" file, nor did I find any mention (recognizable to me) of things gone awry in the log file, when trying the IDAutomation font again.

The location of fonts.err varies based on the versions of FusionPro and your operating system. On Windows XP, with FusionPro 8.0, the fonts.err file should be at "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\PTI\FusionPro\". However, in this case, the font itself is fine, but the encoding of the characters doesn't match up, as explained above.

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Ah, that answers my original question then, and indicates why the IDAutomation font doesn't work with alpha characters.

 

I did search the forums initially for this info, but silly me I searched for the acronym "IMB" which returned:

 

"Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms."

 

Thanks for your help - most appreciated!

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I did search the forums initially for this info, but silly me I searched for the acronym "IMB" which returned:

 

"Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms."

Sorry about that. Unfortunately, there's a "feature" of vBulletin forums where words with fewer than four letters are not indexed for searches. This is something beyond our (PTI's) control as clients of vBulletin.

 

You can use Google to search the forum by including "site:forums.pti.com" in the search, like so:

http://google.com/search?q=site:forums.pti.com+imb

 

Although, admittedly that does turn up a lot of hits, not all of which say how to convert the encoding of the text barcode data for use with the IDAutomation4State font instead of the USPSIMBStandard font.

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