C#. Intelligent Mail Generator Size Setting Tutorial

sample source code to generate linear Intelligent Mail images and adjust barcode size in C# .NET

• Completely run in Visual C#.NET development environments, including Winforms applications, ASP.NET web forms, Crystal Reports, SSRS and C#.NET class & console applications
• Simple to control Intelligent Mail and supplemental data size, including X,Y dimension, barcode width & height, margin of top, bottom, left and right, etc
• Support 4 different barcode length for Intelligent Mail: 20 digits, 25digits, 29digits, 31 digits
• Completely integrate into Microsoft Visual Studio2005/2008/2010
• Provide 100% C#.NET source code and strong named assemblies
• Support high quality Intelligent Mail barcodes in GIF, BMP, PNG, JPEG/JPG & TIFF
• Mature Intelligent Mail barcode generating dll with royalty-free and perpetual developer license
• Tutorial for Intelligent Mail Image Setting in Visual C#.NET
• Tutorial for Intelligent Mail Data Encoding in Visual C#.NET

Intelligent Mail, also known as IM, the 4-State Customer Barcode, is a postal barcode adopted by the United State Postal Servicr for sorting and tracking letters and flats.

Intelligent Mail Image Width Related Settings

W: the barcode width of Intelligent Mail. Please see BarCodeWidth.

X: the width of a module bar. Please see X.

Q: the width of the quiet zone. Please see Left & Right Margin.

H: the barcode height of Intelligent Mail. Please see BarCodeHeight.

Top & Bottom Margin: the height of the top & bottom margin. Please see Top & Bottom Margin.

Text Margin: the space between image bar and text. Please see TextMargin.

Text Font: the font style of human-readable text. Please see TextFont.

C# Intelligent Mail barcode provides a set of barcode size settings to specify you Intelligent Mail barcodes. Please download C# barcode component and install, copy those following code to your Visual Studio:

Linear barcode = new Linear();

barcode.Type = BarcodeType.ONECODE;

barcode.Data = "01234567890123456789";

UOM

UOM is short for Unit of Measure, which is the unit of measure for all size related settings in the library. C# Intelligent Mail barcode provides 3 options: Pixel, Cm, and Inch. The default is Pixel.

barcode.UOM = UnitOfMeasure.PIXEL;

Barcode Width & Height

BarcodeWidth is the Intelligent Mail barcode image width. The default in C# Intelligent Mail barcode is 0 (float).

BarcodeHeight is the Intelligent Mail barcode image height. The default in C# Intelligent Mail barcode is 0 (float).

barcode.BarcodeWidth = 0;

barcode.BarcodeHeight = 0;

Barcode Margin

BarcodeMargin is the white zone around the Intelligent Mail symbol. C# Intelligent Mail barcode provides 4 options: Left Margin, Right Margin, Top Margin and Bottom Margin. The default of these four margins are 0 (float).

barcode.TopMargin = 3;

barcode.BottomMargin = 3;

barcode.LeftMargin = 1;

barcode.RightMargin = 1;

X

X is the width of barcode bar module (narrow bar). The default in C# Intelligent Mail barcode is 1 (float).

barcode.X = 2;

Text Margin & Font

TextMargin is the space between barcode and barcode data text. The default in C# Intelligent Mail barcode is 6 (float).

TextFont is the font style of human-readable text. The default in C# Intelligent Mail barcode is new Font ("Arial", 9f, FontStyle.Regular).

barcode.TextMargin = 9;

barcode.TextFont = new Font("Arial", 20f, FontStyle.Regular);