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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.
PDF417
PDF417isoneofthetypesofbarcodesthatcanbeaddedtoatemplate;see"Barcode"onpage572.
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.
Barcode properties
ThistopicliststhepropertiesofthebarcodetypePDF417.Forthepropertiesofotherbarcodetypes,
see"Barcodetypeandproperties"onpage574.
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encoded(valuesfrom32to126andsomeaddi-
tionalcontrolcharacters)
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Numeric:amoreefficientmodeforencodingnumericdata
Error Correction Level
Usethedrop-downtoselectthebuilt-inerrorcorrectionmethodbasedonReed-Solomonalgorithms.
Theerrorcorrectionlevelisadjustablebetweenlevel0(justerrordetection)andlevel8(maximum
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