TransBar Ean 13 & 8

Fields of application

TransBar Ean 13 & 8 allow to create barcodes for the following fields of application :

Packaging of consumer goods according to the numbering with global unicity managed by GS1
Packaging of medicines except those distributed in France, Germany, Italy and Belgium
Packaging of dietary, cosmetic or parapharmaceutical specialties according to standard ACL 13
Back cover of books according to ISBN standard
Catalogs and orders for products, books, newspapers
Newspapers and magazines in international distribution according to ISSN standard
Newspapers and magazines in French distribution (see also this specific solution PressBar)

Storable characters

TransBar Ean 13 & 8 allows to encode :

7 or 12 digits numbers with automatic addition of the control character
8 or 13 digits numbers with check of the control character
optionally, extensions of 2 or 5 digits

TransBar allows you to encode all possible numbers, but doesn't indicate which number you have to use in a specific case. This information should be found from the regulatory authority of the relevant area, for example, for French-made consumer products, the society GS1 France

Supported standards

Barcodes generated by TransBar Ean 13 & 8 are in conformity with standards and communs appellations :

0305 JIS X
0306 JIS X
0507 JIS X
15420 CEI/IEC/ISO
2108 ISO/NF
24723 CEI/IEC/ISO
3297 CEI/DIN/IEC/ISO/NF
41-008 Z
41-100 Z
63-300-9 Z
797 EN DIN/NF
AFNIL
DUN 13
DUN 8
EAN 13
EAN 8
GENCOD 13
GENCOD 8
GS1 13
GS1 8
ISBN
ISSN
UCC 13
UCC 8

As well as to this one, in its Ean 13 representation :

ACL 13

Graphic possibilities

TransBar Ean 13 & 8 generate barcodes with six commun heights :

and all sizes, including « SC0 » to « SC9 », within the limits of the standard or even, after a warning, beyond the limits of the standard :

Barcodes are obtained without legend (bars only) :

or barcodes are automatically provided with a legend to choose between three possible sizes :

These three sizes can be mixed as wished within the same barcode :

Transcription

Ean 13 and Ean 8 transcriptions (the expressions of a number to be encoded as a text to be printed by a barcode font) are complex and no standard defines them : TransBar software will always have to be used before assigning the barcode font to the string it provides:

Any extensions are obtained in the same way, the control character being automatically added or controlled in its place, the intermediate spacing being preserved, the position of the legend of the extension depending on the height chosen for the bars :

Minimum system requirements for TransBar 5

The most recent version of TransBar 5 and its fonts have been tested with success on the following configurations :

MacOS 10.10 "Yosemite" to MacOS 15 "Sequoia", processor Intel or ARM by Rosetta emulation
First launch will require an Apple unlocking described under this link!
Windows 7 - 64 bits Service Pack 1 to Windows 11 Pro or Family - 64 bits

with any software that supports text writing, copy and paste, text importation or CSV files, and offering the choice of the font and the font size for non-scalable printing ; a print where 72 DTP points (pica) are 25.4 mm in accordance with the current standard of DTP and professional printers.

The use of the "server" function is limited to software that can be programmed to implement it.

Any printers with a resolution of 300, 600, 900, 1200, 1800, 2400 dots per inch.

All printers of another resolution, as long as this resolution is known and in the layout software, the font size can be expressed as a fractional value (for example 42.37 points, without this input turning into 42 points), under penalty of:

either reduce the number of possible dimensions of barcodes;
or generate micro-defects likely to decrease the durability or, worst case, the readability of the barcodes.

Evaluation

Consult the evaluation guide step by step

Technical documentations

Consult :