Non printable characters in PDF417

[Francine]

We need to be able to encode non-printable characters in the 2D barcode type PDF417.

In my query I insert the on-printable characters and data into 1 field and then I use this field for the barcode data. The problem is that the non printable characters like ASCII decimal 02, 03, 26 and 31 are converted to ; symbol in the barcode.

Is there a function in Stimulsoft that can be used to have those non-printable characters in the PDF417 barcode?

[HighAley]

Hello.

You could set the Encoding mode to Byte and use any ASCII symbol.
More information you could get from the Stimulsoft User Manual.

Thank you.

[Francine]

Thanks for your reply Aleksey.
I have tried it and the non-printable characters are there but some characters are lost.

For example I have encoded a barcode with Tom Schleisman and when I scan the barcode I received the following (as you can see some letters are gone):
6
m hleian
TradShoweads
161 S.76thaneoodyr, Z 338niteStat
517008

ms@teadset

[HighAley]

Hello.

It seems that you use a wrong codepage.
Please, send us a report template which reproduces the issue.

Thank you.

[Francine]

Here is my report file with the 2D barcode encoding that I used.
Thanks for your help.

[HighAley]

Hello.

As we see you use MySQL database. Usually data are stores not in ASCII encoding.
Unfortunately, we cannot reproduce the issue because there is no data for the report.
Please, send us a sample report template with one barcode and static text in it.

Thank you.

[Francine]

Here is a template with some static code in the 2D barcode including the non-printable characters.

[HighAley]

Hello.

We have made an improvement.
Please, check our next prerelease build that will be available on May 22.

Thank you.

[Francine]

Hi,
I have tried the latest prebuild version and the non-printable characters are now appearing in the 2D barcode when using Byte Encoding Mode except that the carriage returns and line feeds are lost.

[HighAley]

Hello.

There was a little issue with carriage return and line feed.
We have made an improvement.
Please, check our next prerelease build.

Thank you.