Producing bar codes without BCOCA

If your printer does not support BCOCA, you can print bar codes by using a program that produces non-BCOCA bar codes, such as the IBM® Document Composition Facility (DCF) program. DCF uses the MO:DCA-P Presentation Text Data (PTX) structured field. This structured field contains codes that instruct the printer to draw horizontal or vertical rules of different lengths and thicknesses. These bar codes cannot be stored as resources. For more information about using DCF to produce bar codes, see Document Composition Facility Bar Code User’s Guide, S544-3115.

You can also use fonts to produce non-BCOCA bar codes. These bar codes are stored as text. For more information about using fonts to produce bar codes, see to Using FOCA fonts to produce bar codes.