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38 Creating Card Formats
datacard:barHumanReadable Attribute
Valid values are “true” and “false”. Default is “false” if the attribute is not defined.
If “true”, the bar code is printed with human readable characters if the bar code symbology
supports human readable characters. Interleaved 2 of 5 and Code128 do not support human
readable characters.
datacard:barChecksum Attribute
Valid values are “true” and “false”. Default is “false” if the attribute is not defined.
If “true”, Datacard software will generate a checksum using a checksum generation algorithm
associated with the selected bar code symbology according to this table:
Bar code symbology Check digit algorithm
CODE39 Modulo 43
CODE128 Modulo 103
Interleaved 2 of 5 Modulo 10
UPCA Modulo 10
EAN8 Modulo 10
EAN13 Modulo 10