DataMatrix Fontware

	On this page Package Contents Special Character Mapping Font Tools User Manual  [PDF | Html] Release Notes support platforms Windows 2000, Windows XP and above;

Morovia DataMatrix Fontware allows you to print data matrix symbols to any laser printers on Windows platforms.

Morovia DataMatrix Fontware includes two true type fonts, samples and encoders in ActiveX and GUI formats.

Click here to DataMatrix Fontware. To a trial version, click here. To learn more about data matrix symbology, visit barcode library at www.barcodeschool.com.

The most recent version is 3.33.0, which was released on January 29, 2010. Read the release notes here. This release is a bug fix release. Existing 3.x customers can download here.

Package Contents

The package includes two true type fonts. DataMatrix Font Encoders (ActiveX and GUI versions) are also included. Also included are the samples for Microsoft Access, Mail Merge and Crystal Reports. Note that the DataMatrix Font Encoders (as well as these samples) can only run under Windows platforms.

If you are looking a solution utilizing PCL fonts, download this DataMatrix PCL font evaluation kit(ZIP, 5,623 bytes).

The data matrix encoding is very complicated so we include the DataMatrix encoder with every package. You can adjust a couple of factors: target size. The target size parameter allows you to choose the size of the data matrix symbol. The program fills padding characters to fulfill the size requirement. We recommend you to print at point size 12.

To encourage purchases of the retail version, the data matrix symbol generated by the encoder contains "demo" text. This limitation is removed in the retail version.

The user manual is available viewing online - choose the format you'd like to view: PDF, and Web Help.

Special Character Mapping

DataMatrix symbology can encode any characters within the ASCII value ranging from 0 to 255. In DataMatrix Encoder and our Font tools, you can use the ASCII value to represent a non-printable character, such as \000 for character NUL ( the first character in the ASCII table).

Font Tools

It is impossible to manually convert input into barcode string. You need some programming knowledge to integrate our Encoder API with your program. Currently the encoder programming interface is available only on Windows platforms.

If you are looking for adding data matrix barcodes into Crystal Reports, read this article.