Figure 284: Barcode Extended Dialog

If an option of the following is available for a specific barcode can be looked up in the table below in this chapter.

Invert: Inverts the dark and bright parts of the barcode. The barcode must be bordered to prevent the outer barcode lines from disappearing. Therefore a QuietZone is defined, see example below. The width of the zone can be given absolute units or in percentage of the width. The selectable percentage ranges from 1 to 50.

Except Text: This suboption of Invert excludes inverting the text when Invert is selected and is implemented at the moment just for the EAN-13-Barcodes.

Enable ~: Allows to encode 3-digit decimal values. The format is ~d followed by 3 digits. This leads to a compression of the data because ~d will not be used and the following 3 digits as decimal number will be encoded by the according character in the ASCII-table. For example: ~d090 will be changed into 90 of the ASCII-table, e.g. the character Z. This feature should be supported for each barcode mode. Only the ex modes could not have this function.

Text XOffset: This value can be used to move the position of the text in horizontal direction that is activated for the barcode. For positive values the offset point of the barcode text is moved to the left, for negative values it is moved to the right.

Text YOffset: This value can be used to move the position of the text in vertical direction that is activated for the barcode. For positive values the offset point of the barcode text is moved down, for negative values it is moved up.

Barcode Mode / Security Level / Code Columns: These parameters are optional and depend on the barcode type that was chosen. So the number of options, the meaning of the possibly available options and the parameters that can be selected here are defined by the related barcode specification.

Security Level:

For the QR-Code the following Security Levels for error correction are available:

•Level L: 7%  

•Level M: 15%  

•Level Q: 25%  

•Level H: 30%

A Security Level of 30% means, that the error correction can read the Barcode if up to 30% of the Barcode is disrupted. For different Barcodes there exist a different number of Security Levels with different error correction capabilities.