Overview

UPC-E is a shortened form of UPC-A holding less data.

Variant

UPC-A is a longer variant of UPC-E.

UPC-E Composite is a variant that should be used when a CC-A or CC-B GS1 Composite 2D component is required.

Invoking

• The data field takes either 7 or 8 digits, optionally follow by a space then 2 or 5 digit if an addon is required.
• If 7 digits of primary data are supplied then the 8^th checkdigit is calculated automatically, otherwise the digits are encoded as supplied.
• The includetext option should normally be supplied.

Examples

Identical symbols, input provided with and without a check digit:

0 0 moveto (01234565) (includetext) /upce /uk.co.terryburton.bwipp findresource exec

0 0 moveto (0123456) (includetext) /upce /uk.co.terryburton.bwipp findresource exec

A truncated symbol:

0 0 moveto (01234565) (includetext height=0.5) /upce /uk.co.terryburton.bwipp findresource exec