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BarHeight Property
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CheckCharacter Property
CheckCharacterInText Property
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DataMatrixBarSize Property
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HumanReadableTextFontColor Property
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IsHumanReadableTextOnTop Property
LeftMargin Property
MacroPdf417FileId Property
MacroPdf417SegmentCount Property
MacroPdf417SegmentIndex Property
PDF417BarWidth Property
PDF417Columns Property
Pdf417CompactionType Property
Pdf417ErrorCorrectionLevel Property
PDF417Rows Property
Pdf417Truncated Property
PDF417YtoXRatio Property
Picture Property
PostnetHeightShort Property
PostnetHeightTall Property
PostnetSpacing Property
QRCodeBarSize Property
QRCodeEncoding Property
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QRCodeVersion Property
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ShowHumanReadableText Property
SupplementarySeparation Property
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DecodeString Method
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ezBarcodeComponent Help

PLANET Specification



PLANET (Postal Alpha Numeric Encoding Technique) was used for the U.S. Postal Service. This US Postal Office uses a combination of the POSTNET code and PLANET code to track customer’s piece of mail.

Encoding
PLANET barcodes encodes the data in half- and full-height bars. And the barcode always starts and ends with a full bar (often called a guard rail) and each individual digit is represented by a set of five bars using a two-out-of-five code. In PLANET, the two-of-five are the short bars.

Check Sum
The check digit is based on Mod 10 algorithm. The value of the check digit is that when added to the sum of other digits in the barcode, results in a total that is multiple of 10. For example, the check digit for address code 4012345678901 is 0 since 4+0+1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+1=50 which adds check digit 0 result a sum 50.

USPS PLANET Properties
Besides the properties to general barcode, the following properties belongs to PLANET:

PostnetHeightTall gets or sets tall bar height for Postnet, Planet or USPS Intelligent Mail. Default is 0.127 inch.
PostnetHeightShort gets or sets short bar height for Postnet, Planet or USPS Intelligent Mail. Default is 0.05 inch.
PostnetSpacing gets or sets space the for Postnet, Planet or USPS Intelligent Mail. Default is 0.026 inch.

Planet Character Set
The PLANET barcode is numeric only. The PLANET barcode is either 12 or 14 digits long.


PLANET examples by using ezBarcodeComponent
[C#]

        using ezBarcodeComponent.Winform; 

        //create barcode class
        Barcode barcode1 = new Barcode(); 
                                                                        
        //Specify the CodeData to encode
        barcode1.CodeData = "4012345678901";
        //Set the Symbology to Planet
        barcode1.Symbology = Symbologies.Planet;
   barcode1.CheckCharacter= true;
    barcode1.CheckCharacterInText = true;

   //Save the image
        barcode1.SaveImageAs("Planet.gif", System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Gif);


[Vb.net]
      'create barcode class
        Dim barcode1 As New Barcode
                                                                
        'Specify the CodeData to encode 
        barcode1.CodeData = "4012345678901"
        'Set the Symbology to Planet
 barcode1.Symbology = Symbologies.Planet
        barcode1.CheckCharacter= True
    barcode1.CheckCharacterInText = True

   'Save the image  
        barcode1.SaveImageAs("Planet.gif", System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Gif)
                        
Example of PLANET barcode images.   The last digit is the check sum digit.