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None:Thebarcodeisrenderedbasedonthemodulewidth.

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Proportional:Thebarcodeisstretcheduptowhereitfitseitherthewidthorheightoftheparent

box,whicheverrequiresthelessstretching.

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:~~.

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:

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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.

UPC-A,UPC-E,EAN-8,EAN-13

UPC-A,UPC-E,EAN-8andEAN-13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thesebarcodetypes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.

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