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Left:EnterthedistancebetweentheleftmarginofthepageandtheBarcode,ineithermet-
ric(cm/mm),inch(in)orpoint(pt)values.
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Bottom:EnterthedistancebetweenthebottommarginofthepageandtheBarcode,in
eithermetric(cm/mm),inch(in)orpoint(pt)values.
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PDF417 Propertiesgroup:
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Module Width:Specifiesthewidthofthenarrowbars.Changingthisvaluetoahigher
valuewillgenerallymaketheBarcodebigger.
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Row height:Definestheheightofthebarsforasinglerow,measuredinpixels,pointsor
metric.
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Width to height ratio:Selecttheratioofcolumnwidthtorowheight.
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Mode:Usethedrop-downtosetthecompactionmode.
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Binary:allowsanybytevaluetobeencoded.
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Text:allowsallprintableASCIIcharacterstobeendcoded(ASCIIvalues32to126
andsomeadditionalcontrolcharacters).
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Numeric:moreefficientmodeforencodingnumericdata.
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Auto:Automaticallydetectthedatacontentandencodesusingthemostappropriate
method.Thisisthedefaultoption.
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Error Correction Level:Entertheerrorcorrectionlevelforthebuilt-inerrorcorrection
methodbasedonReed-Solomonalgorithms.Theerrorcorrectionlevelisadjustable
betweenlevel0(justerrordetection,withoutcorrection)andlevel8(maximumerrorcor-
rection).Recommendederrorcorrectionlevelsarebetweenlevel2and5,buttheoptimal
valuedependsontheamountofdata,printingqualityofthePDF417symbolanddecoding
capabilities.
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Rows:APDF417barcodecanhaveanywherefrom3to90rows.
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Columns:Thenumberofdatacolumnscanvaryfrom1to30.
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Tilde processing
Checkthisoptiontoprocesstilde(~)charactersinthedataasspecialcharacters.(SeetheJava4-
lessBarcodesGuidetolearnwhatthetildecharactercanbeusedfor.)
Thetildeisexpectedtobefollowedbythe'd'characterand3digitsrepresentinganASCIIchar-
acter:~dNNN.Forexample,~d013representsacarriagereturn.
Notethatwiththisoptionchecked,anytildethatneedstobeincludedintheoutputmustbe
escapedbyaddinganothertilde:~~.
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