Chris wrote:

You should be able to create a form, paint it white, draw on it with a barcode TTF font, export that form to JPEG, and >then use that JPEG into Artefact.

That won't work. Barcode readers need clean black-white transitions and that is something JPEG compression cannot provide (unless printing large enough at high enough resolution, and low enough compression). To get good-working barcodes, you even need to align to printer pixels. Stephan