Overview

The Code 39 symbology is discrete, variable length, and self-checking.

Variants

Code 39 Extended is a variant that can be used to encode full 128 character ASCII with the use of shift character combinations.

HIBC Code39 is a variant that should be used when encoding HIBC formatted data.

Invoking

• The data field can hold any of the following:
• Numbers 0-9
• Capital letters A-Z
• Symbols -.$/+%* and space
• The includecheck option calculates the check digit.
• The includecheckintext option makes the calculated checksum appear in the human readable text.
• The hidestars option suppresses the asterisks in the human readable text.

Examples

0 0 moveto (CODE39) (includetext) /code39 /uk.co.terryburton.bwipp findresource exec

0 0 moveto (CODE39) (includecheck includetext includecheckintext) /code39 /uk.co.terryburton.bwipp findresource exec

0 0 moveto (CODE39) (hidestars includecheck includetext) /code39 /uk.co.terryburton.bwipp findresource exec