Why use Bar Code Pro instead of fonts?
Both technologies have their appropriate applications. Bar Code Pro produces high-quality PostScript graphics. It should be used when you want tight control over your bar coded package or label design work. Since the height and width are independently controlled, you can create any size bar code with any bar code type and set the associated text in any font, style or size. Bar code fonts, like any fonts, have specific styles. Whereas Bar Code Pro comes with a complete library of bar code types at your disposal, you need to purchase the specific bar code type and point size for any one particular job. Bar Code Pro computes any required check digits automatically. With fonts you would need to compute the check digits manually, to set the correct data. With Bar Code Pro the graphics are not affected by other features of the system. Bar code fonts, like any fonts, are affected by rules of type that are built into the system or ATM. This often causes problems because the bar space relations
