Konica Minolta Darwin VDP Software - Manual (Page 53)

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T EC - I T B a r c o d e So f t w a re R e f e re n c e
The values for the properties postal code, country code, service class, preamble and date are
extracted from the barcode data (
Text property). If this data values are encoded in the text string the
values of the belonging properties are overdriven.
The Format property of TBarCode must be set to "S" (switches extracting of SCM Data to “on”).
And the property EscapeSequences must be switched on.
The Text property should contain the whole text according to UPS standard including preamble,
date, postal code, country code and service class. Special characters and separators must be
replaced by escape sequences Rs, Gs, Eot (also refer to Escape Sequences):
Figure 1: MaxiCode UPS Encoding
6.2.5 MicroPDF417
Symbology number: 84
Valid characters: Alphanumeric and/or bytes
Quiet zone: left/right: 1X
Module width: --
Print ratio: 1:2:3:4:5:6:1:2:3:4:5:6
Ratio format: 1B:2B:3B:4B:5B:6B:1S:2S:3S:4S:5S:6S
Default check digit: Automatic (symbology specific).
Size: --
TBarCode/X control sequence
For V1.x: $_tbcs b84 dThis is a MicroPDF417$_tbce
For V2.x: $_tbcs -b84 –d"This is a MicroPDF417"$_tbce
This stacked 2D symbology is used to encode large quantities of data.