PDF417 Fontware

	On this page Package Contents Font Specification Special Character Mapping Font Tools PDF417 Developer's Guide [PDF: 188K, 13 pages] support platforms Windows 2000, Windows XP and above;

Our PDF417 Barcode Font Package allows you to print PDF417 symbols to any printers connected to Windows.

The PDF417 font package does not just include one font file, it actually contains 5 true type fonts, producing different aspect ratios of PDF417 symbols.

Click here to PDF417 Barcode font Package. To a trial version, click here. To learn more about PDF417 symbology, visit our learning center.

Package Contents

The package contains the following 5 true type font files. In addition to the 5 true type font files, PDF417 Font Encoders (ActiveX and GUI versions) are also included. Also included are the samples for Microsoft Access, Mail Merge and Crystal Reports.

A PDF417 symbol is made up a lot of small cells. Each cell has different aspect ratio in different fonts. Generally speaking, a symbol is tallest when it is generated with MRV PDF417XT font and shortest with MRV PDF417XS font.

As PDF417 encoding is very complicated, we include the PDF417 encoder with every PDF417 font package. You can adjust a couple of factors: security level, number of rows, number of columns, whether the symbol is truncated (without ending bars). Off course, you can always adjust the symbol shape and size by increasing or decreasing the font point size, or changing font typeface. For optimal results we recommend point size 6.

To encourage purchases of the retail version, the PDF417 symbol generated by the encoder contains "demo" text. This limitation is removed in the retail version.

Note: PDF417 encoding is very complicated. We provide a PDF417 encoder (GUI version and ActiveX version) with the package. They can only run on Windows platform.

The PDF417 fonts are design to work under point size 4 and above. Point size 6 is recommended.

Special Character Mapping

PDF417 symbology can encode any characters within the ASCII value ranging from 0 to 255. In PDF417 Encoder and our Font tools, you can use the ASCII value to represent a non-printable character, such as \000 for character NUL ( the first character in the ASCII table).

PDF417 Encoder

It is impossible to manually convert input into barcode string. To assist our customers to integrate Morovia PDF417 Fontware with other applications such as Microsoft Office and Web, we include PDF417 Encoders with every package - including PDF417 Encoder ActiveX and PDF417 Encoder GUI. With a developer license you are allowed to distribute the encoder DLL and font with your application.