Why do Barcodes and Fonts shrink using Crystal Reports in IFS APPS10?

Question

Why do Barcodes and Fonts shrink using Crystal Reports in IFS APPS10? Is there a fix for this issue?

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this issue?

We are on APPS10 using Crystal reports to create parts labels. When we view in Crystal the barcode is fine but when we print through IFS the barcode/fonts shrinks. The samples show the differences.

Thank you,

MMcK · Answer

Hi​@arebbeadleWe have had a lot of ‘fun’ getting barcodes to work well for us but we now think wehave got there. We are using IFS Cloud, but I guess the issues will be similar for IFS APPS10.We found 39 barcodes printed ok but of course these don’t handle spaces and other special characters which are often found in part numbers etc. We had to change to using a 128 barcode and we’ve used IDAutomation’s fonts.The details will be different if you are using a different font but if you are using 128 font from IDAutomation, then the sizing issue is caused by a combination of Crystal Reports and PDF files. IDAutomation provide different sized fonts and some guidance on which one to use for the various printed sizes, but we found this didn’t apply for PDFs generated from Crystal Reports. The way the fonts are presented in the Crystal Report designer is completely different to what appears in the PDF produced on the server. After much extremely frustratingtrial and error we found we coulduse the XS font, font size 20 in fields 0.9cm high in the Crystal Report layout.This approach is actually the last comment herehttps://www.barcodefaq.com/knowledge-base/exporting-to-pdf/- we also found that the registry change suggested in that article made no difference.I hope this information helps you.mmck

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