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From: dlv@CUNYVMS1.GC.CUNY.EDU (Dimitri Vulis)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Printing Zipcode bars using tex/latex
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Date: 27 Feb 91 01:00:35 GMT
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J. Daniel Smith said:
 
>I played around with this about a year or so ago... (Someone posted
>PostScript code to do this in comp.lang.postscript, and I wanted to
>show it could be done in TeX, too).
>
>The following macro file is what I finally ended up with.  If I
>remember correctly, some of the code was snarfed from another .STY
>file, but like a total idiot, I forgot to mention that in the STY
>file at the time....
 
I wrote these Postnet bar code macros and posted them to TeXHAX a couple
of years ago, and re-posted them to comp.mail.misc a few weeks ago, and
I'd say "some of the code was snarfed" is a serious understatement. :)
 
Anyway, I have since added a few bells and whistles to these macros
(they now produce an FIM bar code as well and don't use \special's; you
still need a device driver that'll print in landscape), and sent them to
TUGBOAT a few weeks ago.
 
By the way, starting this summer you'll be able to pay 27c instead of
29c for postage if your envelope has Postnet and FIM bars.
 
Dimitri Vulis