Overview

The Codablock F symbology is 2D stacked-linear barcode that consists of a number of stacked Code 128 symbols. It can encode full 256 character extended-ASCII with the use of the FNC4 shift character.

Variants

HIBC Codablock F is a variant that should be used when encoding HIBC formatted data.

Invoking

• The data field can consist of any ASCII data.
• When the parse option is specified, any instances of ^NNN in the data field are replaced with their equivalent ASCII value, useful for specifying unprintable characters.
• When the parsefnc option is specified, non-data function characters can be specified by ^FNC1 through ^FNC4.
• The columns option specifies the number of columns in the symbol, default 8.
• The rows option specifies the number of rows in the symbol, between 2 and 44.
• If rows is unspecified, the encoder will default to the smallest number of rows that can hold the given data.
• The raw option denotes that the data field is providing the input as a pre-encoded codewords in ^NNN format, suitable for direct low-level encoding.
• The rowheight option specifies the height of the bars in each row in points. The default is 10.
• The sepheight option specifies the height of the separator bars enclosing the rows in points. The default is 1.

Examples

0 0 moveto (Codablock F) () /codablockf /uk.co.terryburton.bwipp findresource exec

0 0 moveto (CODABLOCK F 34567890123456789010040digit) (columns=8 rows=5) /codablockf /uk.co.terryburton.bwipp findresource exec

0 0 moveto (Short bars, fat seperators) (columns=10 rows=8 rowheight=6 sepheight=2) /codablockf /uk.co.terryburton.bwipp findresource exec