Reference Guide > Properties > PreferredFormat Property

Gets or sets the format of the Aztec barcode.

Property Data Type

short

Remarks

The default value is 0, this property can be one of the following values.

Value	Description	Capacity (in digits)	Capacity (in alphanumeric characters)	Capacity (in bytes)
0	Auto format
1	15 X 15 compact format	13	12	6
2	19 X 19	18	15	8
3	19 X 19 compact format	40	33	19
4	23 X 23	49	40	24
5	23 X 23 compact format	70	57	33
6	27 X 27	84	68	40
7	27 X 27 compact format	110	89	53
8	31 X 31	128	104	62
9	37 X 37	178	144	87
10	41 X 41	232	187	114
11	45 X 45	294	236	145
12	49 X 49	362	291	179
13	53 X 53	433	348	214
14	57 X 57	516	414	256
15	61 X 61	601	482	298
16	67 X 67	691	554	343
17	71 X 71	793	636	394
18	75 X 75	896	718	446
19	79 X 79	1008	808	502
20	83 X 83	1123	900	559
21	87 X 87	1246	998	621
22	91 X 91	1378	1104	687
23	95 X 95	1511	1210	753
24	101 X 101	1653	1324	824
25	105 X 105	1801	1442	898
26	109 X 109	1956	1566	976
27	113 X 113	2116	1694	1056
28	117 X 117	2281	1826	1138
29	121 X 121	2452	1963	1224
30	125 X 125	2632	2107	1314
31	131 X 131	2818	2256	1407
32	135 X 135	3007	2407	1501
33	139 X 139	3205	2565	1600
34	143 X 143	3409	2728	1702
35	147 X 147	3616	2894	1806
36	151 X 151	3832	3067	1914

If you set PreferredFormat to 0 (Auto format), our Aztec ActiveX control will automatically choose an appropriate format with enough data capacity to encode the string.

If you set PreferredFormat to other values and the data capacity of the selected format is not big enough to encode the string, our Aztec ActiveX control will also automatically choose an appropriate format with bigger data capacity to encode the string.