Adobe Acrobat XI - Manual (Page 253)

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Forms
Last updated 1/14/2015
XML Encodes the data into the barcode in standard XFDF format. JavaScript script is automatically generated.
Tab Delimited Encodes the fields into the barcode as tab-delimited values. JavaScript script is automatically generated.
If the form is configured to output the data in individual XFDF or XDP files, the data must be in a tab-delimited format
with the field names in the first line. This option is also useful if you want to fit more data into a barcode or if you intend
to copy the data into database or spreadsheet tables.
Pick Opens a dialog box in which you select which user data fields will be encoded in the barcode for you to retrieve.
Include Field Names (Available only when Tab Delimited encoding is selected.) Encodes field names as the first line of
the barcode contents. The values are encoded under them.
Custom Calculation Script Displays the default script. Click the Edit button to open the JavaScript Editor dialog box, in
which you can write custom calculation scripts for your barcode.
Reference To published Form Shows the path to the PDF form. You can edit this by typing in the URL to the published
form. Later, you can re-create a digital version of the completed form by merging the form template with an instance
of user-supplied data. You can also maintain the relationship between a specific form template and its related barcode
data files. When you encode a barcode using XML values, the URL reference is encoded into the barcode and is
displayed on the form, below the barcode.
Manage custom barcode settings
You can save, reuse, and share a set of custom settings for barcode parameters, to apply them when you create new
barcode form fields. You can make further adjustments to your custom parameter sets after you define them.
All of these processes begin by opening the barcode form field properties dialog box. To open the properties dialog box,
double-click the barcode field.
Create a new barcode parameters set
1 In the Barcode Field Properties dialog box, click the Options tab, and then click Manage Barcode Parameters.
2 Select the existing parameter set that you want to use as the basis of the new set, and click New.
3 Type a name in the Name box and a description in the Description box.
4 Select options for Symbology, X Dimension, Y/X Ratio, and Error Correction Level, and then click OK.
The newly defined parameter set appears in the list in the Manage Barcode Parameters dialog box, and all the buttons
on the right side of the dialog box become available. The new definition also appears in the Decode Condition menu
in the Options tab of the Barcode Field Properties dialog box.
Edit or delete a set of custom barcode parameters
1 In the Barcode Field Properties dialog box, click the Options tab, and then click Manage Barcode Parameters.
2 Select a custom parameter set from the list.
3 Choose the appropriate action:
• Click Edit and make the changes to the settings; then click OK.
• Click Delete. Confirm the deletion in the message that appears by clicking OK.