BarCodeKit allows both developers and organizations to quickly add bar coding to custom NEXTSTEPí applications. By combining the power of object-orientation and PostScriptí into a comprehensive library of bar code symbologies, BarCodeKit represents the state of the art in bar code technology. Developers can seamlessly add bar coding to an existing application in a matter of minutes by using any of the 35 pretested and reusable objects in the BarCodeKit library of palettes. Previously, adding bar coding to an application meant weeks or months of development, incompatibility with different bar code readers and the use of costly proprietary bar code printers.
The BarCodeKit features a full range of bar code symbologies including Code 3 of 9, Code 39 Extended, UPC-A, UPC-E, HRI, NDC, EAN-8, EAN-13, JAN-8, JAN-13, ISBN, ISSN, SICI, SISAC, POSTNET, ABC, FIM, BRM, Interleaved Two of Five, MSI, Codabar, Code 11, Code 93, Code 128, Code 16K and Code 49. It complies to international, national, military and commercial bar coding standards including EAN, JAN, CEN, ANSI, MIL, USS and HIBCC. Furthermore, it provides developers with flexibility; bar codes created using the kit can be scaled and rotated to fit a specific area on a label or document and saved in EPS, EPSI (EPS with interchange bitmap preview for non Display PostScript computers), or TIFF formats. BarCodeKit is an excellent complement to NEXTSTEP's Application Kitî and Database Kitî It was nominated for a Best of Breed Award by the editors of NeXTWORLD Magazine.
