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Tilde processing
Checkthisoptiontoprocesstilde(~)charactersinthedataasspecialcharacters.(SeetheJava4less
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character:
~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:~~.
Human Readable Message
Whenthisoptionischecked,PlanetPressConnectshowsahumanreadabletextbeloworabovethe
barcode,asdefinedusingtheTextPosition,usingthespecifiedfontandfontsize.Thefontsizeis
giveninpoints(pt).
Color
TheColorgroupallowsyoutochooseadifferentBarcodecolor(insteadofblack)andBackground
color(insteadofwhite),bytypingahexadecimalcolorvalue(seeforexamplew3school'scolorpicker).
WhenblackisacompositeofCMYKorRGBvalues,itmayincuracolorclickchargeonsomeprinters.
ChecktheOutput in Grayscaleoptiontomakesurethatpureblackisused.
Output format
Defineshowthebarcodeisoutputonthepage.Therearetwopossibleformats:
l
SVG:Vectorformat.Thisisusuallyofhigherquality,butmaytakelongertogenerateandisnot
compatiblewithEmailoutput.
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PNG:Binaryrasterizedformat.ThishasaslightlylowerqualitythanSVGbutisusuallygen-
eratedfasterandwilldisplayproperlyinEmailoutput.
Code11,Code93,Industrial2of5,Interleaved2of5,Matrix2of5
Code11,Code93,Industrial2of5,Interleaved2of5,andMatrix2of5areafewofthebarcodetypes
thatcanbeaddedtoatemplate.
ThebarcodecanbeaddedeitherusingtheBarcodetoolbarbuttonorthroughselectingInsert > Bar-
codeonthemenu;see"AddingaBarcode"onpage572.
Initiallythebarcodewillhavethebarcodetype'sdefaultproperties.Tochangethoseproperties,such
asthescaleandcolor,opentheBarcodepropertiesdialog:right-clickthebarcode(ontheDesigntab
intheWorkspace)andselecttheBarcode...optioninthecontextmenu.
Notethatbarcodesofthesetypesprocesstildecharacters(~)inthedataasspecialcharacters.See
theJava4lessBarcodesGuidetolearnwhatthetildecharactercanbeusedfor.
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