PDF417 and Unicode

[Former Community Member]

Hello all,

I am trying to stuff some data into a PDF417 barcode field, for one of the forms I will need to put Unicode characters; however I found that the capacity of the barcode field is reduced drastically when storing unicode characters, I did some simple testing and found the capacity is reduced down to 1 over 7 of the capacity for ASCII characters.

Did any body face such situation, and does any body have explanation for it ?

Thank you,

Yasser M. Maree

[Former Community Member]

Hi Yasser,



I did send you a note directly, but as I had mentioned there seems to be some kind of an issue since "Byte mode encoding should be 1.2 bytes per code word and "Text should be 2 characters per code word.



So you should be looking at a 50% reduction when using data that would be 100% "Byte".



Lee.