VPE Professional Question - PDF417 display

[Mark Powers]

I am trying to build a FedEx shipping label that has a 2D barcode using PDF417. The label itself is rotated 90 degrees and printed at the bottom of the page. The problem I am having is that the PDF417 barcode doesn't seem to respect the fact that the rotation is rotated clockwise 90 degrees, because when the PDF417 code is displayed, it is not rotated like the rest of the label is. Been using VPE enhanced a long time, new to using the Professional version and 2D barcode. Not sure if there is something else I need to do to get the PDF417 barcode to rotate maybe? Any suggestions would be appreciated! Or else could it be a bug with PDF417?
Thanks
Mark

[IDEAL Software Support]

In contrast to 1D barcodes, 2D barcodes can not be rotated. I agree that this is not explicitly written in the documentation.

[Mark Powers]

Thanks for the clarification!
Mark

[IDEAL Software Support]

A workaround would be to export the 2D barcode as bitmap (use 300 DPI resolution) and to import and rotate the bitmap.

[Mark Powers]

Would the exporting the barcode to a bitmap be commands from within VPE? Trying to figure out how that works.
Mark

[IDEAL Software Support]

Yes, you can export pages - or rectangular areas of a page - of a VPE document as bitmap file, using VPE.

For better performance, set PictureExportColorDepth = PICEXP_COLOR_MONO, which means black and white only. This is sufficient for barcodes.

Call SetPictureDefaultDPI(300, 300) to specify the resolution.

Best you export to PNG for lossless compression, see PictureExport(string FileName, long PageNo, VpeCoord Left, VpeCoord Top, VpeCoord Right, VpeCoord Bottom).

[Mark Powers]

Thanks! I'll give it a try.
Mark