2D-Pharmacode

The Symbology and Size property page for the 2D-Pharmacode symbology includes the following options.

Symbology: Specifies the symbology that is selected. You can use this list to select a different symbology.

Dimensions

X dimension: Specifies the width of the X dimension.

Opens the Barcode X Dimension dialog, which you can use to configure advanced X dimension settings.
Ratio: Specifies the ratio between the widths of the wide and narrow elements in a barcode symbol. By default, this option is set to Auto and cannot be changed.
Density: Not available for this symbology.
Height: Not available for this symbology.

Symbology Specific Options

Trigger mark: Specifies the position of the trigger mark.
Color fields: Specifies the configuration of the color fields. The following options are available:

None: Specifies that no color fields are applied.
Standard: Places four color fields along the top and bottom edges of the Data Matrix symbol. The following images show a standard configuration for a square and rectangular symbol.

Extra Colors (Variant A): Places up to eight color fields around the Data Matrix symbol. For a square symbol, eight colors are available, and for a rectangular symbol, six are available. The following images show a standard configuration for both symbol shapes.
Extra Colors (Variant B): Places up to eight color fields along two of the edges of the Data Matrix symbol. The following images show a standard configuration for a square and rectangular symbol.
Field: Specifies the color field to modify. Available when Color Fields is set to anything other than None.
Color: Displays the currently selected color for the selected color field. Available when Color Fields is set to anything other than None.

Use ECI protocol: Specifies a protocol for adding escape sequences to the data that uses the Extended Channel Interpretation (ECI) standard. BarTender can use the ECI protocol to encode text into a barcode by using various international character sets or Unicode (UTF-8). For more information about how to use escape sequences in the Data Matrix symbology, refer to Data Matrix Escape Sequences.
Text encoding: Specifies the character set that BarTender uses to convert the text message string to the data representation that is encoded in the barcode symbol.

Prefix: Specifies that a prefix of one or more characters is added to the beginning of the barcode symbol in accordance with industry standards. The following options are available.

For more information about which prefix option to use, refer to your symbology specification.

None: Specifies that the data is encoded without a prefix.
Auto (Macro Substitution): Specifies that the appropriate macro prefix is selected automatically.
GS1: Specifies that the prefix conforms to specific industry standards as authorized by AIM International.
GS1 (Manual Check Digits): Specifies that the prefix conforms to the GS1 standard, with manually selected check digits.
HIBC: Specifies that the prefix conforms to the Health Industry Bar Code (HIBC) standard. Encoding is forced to the US ASCII character set.
Macro 5: Specifies that the 05 Macro header (prefix) and trailer (suffix) are abbreviated in one symbol character to reduce the number of symbol characters that are needed to encode data.
Macro 6: Specifies that the 06 Macro header (prefix) and trailer (suffix) are abbreviated in one symbol character to reduce the number of symbol characters that are needed to encode data.
Reader Initialization: Specifies that the symbol encodes a message that is used to program the reader system.

Size: Specifies the size of the symbol. Because 2D-Pharmacode is a variant of Data Matrix, it supports the same sizing options as Data Matrix. The Size list includes several preconfigured dimensions (such as 10 x 10) and the following auto-generated settings:

Auto-Square: Creates the symbol to have an equal number of columns and rows and a square shape.
Auto-Rectangle: Creates the symbol to have more columns than rows and a rectangular shape. To use this setting, the amount of data must be small. If the input data is larger than what will fit into the available rectangular sizes, the symbol is printed as a square.

Options: Provides other symbology-specific options, as follows:

White on black: Specifies that the barcode symbol is displayed and printed as white on a black background. The black background is wide enough to accommodate the quiet zone.

When you select this option, you cannot specify a different color for the barcode.
Expanded tolerance: Specifies that the symbol uses expanded tolerance values instead of the standard values, so that the color fields are spaced farther from the Data Matrix symbol than usual.

GS1 Application Identifier Data Source Wizard: Starts the GS1 Application Identifier Data Source wizard so that you can add GS1 application identifiers (AIs) to the barcode.

Color: Displays the currently selected color of the barcode symbol. To select a different color, click this option, and then use the Color Picker to select the color that you want. For more information, refer to Color Picker.

Barcode scanners cannot read colored barcodes as well as they can read barcodes that are printed in black. Therefore, we recommend that you do not modify the color of barcode objects unless they are used only for decoration.

Print Method: Opens the Print Method Options dialog, where you can specify how your barcodes are printed on thermal printers. Available when you use a thermal printer that has Drivers by Seagull™ installed.