Traveller Barcodes?

[AlHazred]

I want to make some paper props for my Traveller game. How would you generate the "futuristic" mini-barcodes at the bottoms of most of the forms? Is there a font I can use for it?

 

[Kharum1]

I think Photoshop has something that might do just that.

http://biorust.com/index.php?page=tutorial_detail&tutid=36

http://www.rnel.net/search/photoshop/barcode-tutorials-1

try these tutorials

 

[coliver988]

Just do a search for barcode fonts. You'll have plenty to chose from.

 

[AlHazred]

Looks like the bar code with the funny symbols I was looking for are a machine-readable MICR font, specifically MICR E-13B. I'm still seeing if there's a free full font available online for it.

The bar code with the tall and short lines is Postal Bar Codes, which you can download here.

 

[AlHazred]

Found one! If you go to http://www.digitalgraphiclabs.com/default.html and select "Services" you'll see a list of them; under "Typeface Design" select "more information." You'll come to a page with a download link (I don't directly link since that would be rude of me), where you can get a number of free fonts. One of them is a MICR Encoding font which has the four MICR symbols.

It would be cool to find a bunch of MICR-like symbols in a font, so as to make more interesting codes.