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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.

DataMatrix

DataMatrixisoneofthetypesofbarcodesthatcanbeaddedtoatemplate;see"Barcode"on

page175.

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175.

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.

DataMatrixbarcodescanbereadeveniftheyarepartiallydamaged,becauseoftheerrorcorrection

codesaddedtothem(accordingtotheECC200standard).

Barcode properties

ThistopicliststhepropertiesoftheDataMatrixbarcode.Forthepropertiesofotherbarcodetypes,see

"Barcodetypeandproperties"onpage177.

Note: Tildecharactersinthedataareprocessedasspecialcharacters(seetheJava4lessBar-

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

Anytildethatneedstobeincludedintheoutputmustbeescapedbyaddinganothertilde(either

"~~",or"7E7E"iftheHexinputoptionisenabled).Thiscanbedonewithareplace()callinthe

Barcodescript,afterexpandingthescript.

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