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Width to height ratio:Selecttheratioofcolumnwidthtorowheight.

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Mode:Usethedrop-downtosetthecompactionmode.

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Binary:allowsanybytevaluetobeencoded.

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Text:allowsallprintableASCIIcharacterstobeendcoded(ASCIIvalues32to126

andsomeadditionalcontrolcharacters).

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Numeric:moreefficientmodeforencodingnumericdata.

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Auto:Automaticallydetectthedatacontentandencodesusingthemostappropriate

method.Thisisthedefaultoption.

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Error Correction Level:Entertheerrorcorrectionlevelforthebuilt-inerrorcorrection

methodbasedonReed-Solomonalgorithms.Theerrorcorrectionlevelisadjustable

betweenlevel0(justerrordetection,withoutcorrection)andlevel8(maximumerrorcor-

rection).Recommendederrorcorrectionlevelsarebetweenlevel2and5,buttheoptimal

valuedependsontheamountofdata,printingqualityofthePDF417symbolanddecoding

capabilities.

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Rows:APDF417barcodecanhaveanywherefrom3to90rows.

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Columns:Thenumberofdatacolumnscanvaryfrom1to30.

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Tilde processing

Checkthisoptiontoprocesstilde(~)charactersinthedataasspecialcharacters.(SeetheJava4-

lessBarcodesGuidetolearnwhatthetildecharactercanbeusedfor.)

Thetildeisexpectedtobefollowedbythe'd'characterand3digitsrepresentinganASCIIchar-

acter:~dNNN.Forexample,~d013representsacarriagereturn.

Notethatwiththisoptionchecked,anytildethatneedstobeincludedintheoutputmustbe

escapedbyaddinganothertilde:~~.

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Text:EnterthetextusedtogeneratetheBarcode.

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Addbutton :Clicktodisplayalistofvariabledatathatcouldbeusedforgeneratingthe

Barcode.

ThisincludesmetadatafieldswhichmustpreviouslyhavebeenaddedintheMetadata

options,likelyattheDocument Tagslevel(seeMetadataOptions),aswellassomeinform-

ationfields.

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Condition:EntertheconditionwhichdetermineswhetherornottheBarcodewillbeaddedtothe

documentatprinttime.Fordetailsonhowtocreateaconditional,see"HowtoSetConditionals"

onpage1142.

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