Where can I find a font to generate EAN 128 bar-codes?

Question

I'm building a custom shipping solution using ASP.NET and C# and need to generate bar-codes in EAN 128 format. I was wondering if anybody knew where to find a compatible EAN Code 128 bar-code font?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I'd use a library rather than a font, for two reasons:

• No dependency on whether or not the font is installed on the system your code runs on. (Will you have access to install fonts on production servers?)
• The library takes care of checksum calculation for you.

Here's a free one that does Code128. You give it the data to encode, and it gives you an Image you could serve to a client.

You'll have to do a little extra work to implement EAN 128 (GS1-128), but that's just a matter of what data you're sending to the Code128 generator.

Answer 2

Just to wave my own flag, here's my own library to create barcode images, including EAN 128. http://code.google.com/p/netbarcodewriter