Morovia DataMatrix Fontware provides a font-based solution to print ECC200 data matrix symbols. There are many advantages of employing a font-based solution. Fonts contain drawing commands in stead of information of the pixels, therefore they are device-independent. The artwork you created on one platform is available to be transferred to another platform, as long as you have the fonts available on both computers. The latter can be done either by installing the fonts on the target machine or using font embedding technology. Some applications, such as Adobe Acrobat and Crystal Reports, do not support ActiveX, thus using fonts are likely the only solution.
DataMatrix Fontware hides most encoding logic in the encoder. This makes the character set of the data matrix font is fairly simple (it only contains 16 characters, 0-9 and A-F). On Windows platforms, the encoder is provided as a COM object with no GUI interface.
Morovia DataMatrix Fontware package contains the following contents:
Data matrix Fonts (true type version). Two typefaces are provided:
MRV DataMatrixandMRV DataMatrixR1.DataMatrix Encoder ActiveX DLL. It provides encoder API in ActiveX and DLL interfaces.
DataMatrix Encoder GUI, a GUI program providing an easy and convenient way to retrieve encoding results.
A Crystal Reports UFL, which is wrapped around the encoder object. It provides data matrix encoding functionality to Crystal Reports. The UFL is supported on all Crystal Reports version 6.0 and above.
Samples demonstrating how to use DataMatrix Fontware in various of programming environments, such as Microsoft Access, Visual Basic 6, Visual Studio .Net and Crystal Reports.