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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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.
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177.
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
errorcorrection).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
ofthescanner.
Nr. of Columns
Thenumberofdatacolumnscanvaryfrom3to30.
Nr. of Rows
APDF417barcodecanhaveanywherefrom3to90rows.
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