Update (15/03/2009 - 16:09): I have fixed the "show bounding box" issue. Pleas download the new version below.

A Microsoft Surface unit comes with a limited amount of ByteTags that you can use to have the surface recognize objects. While testing some of the applications that we are developing ByteTags are used. I wanted to create a little tool that allows me to create the tags I need easily.

Therefore I decided last night I to create a small application that allows the creation of ByteTags. I haven't put to much time in creating this, but the following functionality should be available:

• Select the tags that you want to print
• Indicate how many times a certain tag needs to be included
• Limited layout option for printing your tags (page size, page margins, tag margins)
• Printing the tags. I have tested them on our surface unit and they seem to be recognized correctly.

One issue I haven't been able to solve yet is the 'Tag Bounding Box'. Currently the application always draws a bounding box around each tag. For some reason my databinding on the checkbox is not working :-(

I would like to add the generation of IdentityTags as well, but haven't found the specification for those. Please, drop me a line of you can help me out there. I will then add that functionality to the tool.

Feel free to play around with the tool. If you have any questions, remarks or feature requests: let me know! Also if you are interested in the source code of the project drop me a line. I'm currently not posting it publicly because it needs to be cleaned up first. 

Disclaimer: Read the instruction on printing byte tags in the SDK carefully. Not all printers produce the same results.

SurfaceTagPrinting_fix.zip (1.28 mb)