#correct barcode image rotation

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I know you already answered this but I can't seem to find it so excuse me, and absolutely no rush answering, but

How do you make flags side to side like the barcode headers or by your headcanon blog? I need it more for just two or so but I can't make it pixel perfect with what I use (it doesn't show when it's similar aligned(?) and it's very easy to move it when you want to stop. so. not the best.) and the perfectionism I have with this needs to know.

I hope I didn't word this too bad

you can see my basic flag splicing tutorial for mogai-headcanons icons here! i don't use a software where i have to physically move each layer to the correct spot, i use one that allows me to resize layers so i can just use math. if you don't have access to something like that and have to move the layers yourself, i wouldn't know how to help, sorry!

as for the barcode headers, i figure out which order i want the flags in, rotate them ninety degrees, and resize them so all of the stripes are the same size. sometimes i have to edit the flags (for example, if a flag has stripes that are larger/smaller, i remake it so they're all equal) or, if there's only a handful of flags in the header, remake them larger so the stripes don't end up blurry due to the size of the header. i probably should make a detailed explanation with images, since it sounds complicated when i describe it jfkldg.

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Barcode Image Rotation & Barcode Detection from PDF Files are Enhanced using .NET

What's New in this Release?

The latest version of Aspose.BarCode for .NET 17.10.0 has been released. This is primarily a maintenance release whereby Aspose team has resolved certain issues incurring in API. In this release some design decisions have been made. Aspose.BarCode for WPF has been merged in main Aspose.BarCode for .NET. Furthermore Class Aspose.BarCode.WPF.BarCodeElement has also been added to Aspose.BarCode for .NET.  This release also fixes exceptions that were reported by Aspose valued customers. DatabarStacked barcode generation process has been improved. The functionality has been improved in such a way that it now produce correct text in the barcode image. Whereas recognition process now returns correct output. DatabarExpandedStacked barcode recognition process has been enhanced. It is now producing correct output as a result of barcode recognition process. Rotation settings were not working properly in case when a barcode is generated and saved as an EMF image. The issue has been fixed. Now BarCodeBuilder.Rotate method is working properly and produce correct rotated barcode image. Barcode recognition process have been improved to detect barcodes from PDF files. Process to generation and recognition DatabarLimited barcode has been improved. Below is the list of new and improved features supported in this version.

Merge Aspose.BarCode for WPF with main .NET 3.0 - 4.5 versions

Remove Obsolete public API

Incorrect text in picture for DatabarStacked

Recognition result isn't correct for DatabarExpandedStacked

Unable to recognize DatabarStacked barcode

Rotation doesn't affected to EMF export

Index was out of range exception when try to recognize barcode from PDF

Incorrect DatabarLimited generation/recognition

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.BarCode for .NET documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.BarCode for performing different tasks like the followings.

Manage Barcode Caption

Create Barcode with Image In Place of Codetext

Overview: Aspose.BarCode for .NET

Aspose.BarCode is a .NET component for generation and recognition of Linear and 2D barcodes on all kinds of .NET applications. It supports WPF with 29+ Barcode symbologies like OneCode, QR, Aztec, MSI, EAN128, EAN14, SSCC18, Code128, Code39, Postnet, MarcoPDF417, Datamatrix, UPCA etc. Other features include barcode insertion in PDF, Word and Excel documents. Also take image output in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG and WMF formats. You can also control image styles such as background color, bar color etc.

More about Aspose.Report for .NET

Homepage of C# & VB.NET Barcode Component Aspose.BarCode for .NET

Download of Aspose.BarCode for .NET

Online documentation of Aspose.BarCode for .NET

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QR Codes: What are they, what are they for and Types

The QR codes are increasingly popular since they were created in 1994, since when we take accompanying and being an almost essential part of logistics as we know it today.

Like barcodes, QR codes serve to facilitate warehousing

tasks, helping operators to take inventory faster and have full product traceability, meaning tight tracking can be done of products for each of the processes they go through in the supply chain.

But what exactly is a QR code?

What are QR codes?

The acronym QR refers to Quick Response in English. Therefore, QR codes are a coding system created so that they can be read as quickly as possible.

These systems are responsible for storing different types of information: numerical codes, text, links, and even small binary files. They have a limit of 3KB.

How QR codes work

QR codes are made up of rectangular codes with small black and white squares, which are called modules.

In this way, the structure of a QR code would be as follows:

Version information: Identify the version of the QR code

Format information: This is the first thing the system reads when it decodes the code and thus can know the size of the symbols that are inside the body (number of bytes available). Stores information about the level of error correction.

QR code data: The black and white modules are arranged alternately and serve to store the information.

Location pattern or position detection: They identify the rotational orientation of the symbol. These are squares that are found in the three corners and that are responsible for allowing the reading to be carried out at high speed.

Alignment pattern: These squares are smaller than the previous ones and are responsible for detecting the coordinates of the QR code, making it possible to read on curved surfaces.

Timer pattern: Re-synchronize the coordinates in case of slight distortion.

Silent zone: Helps isolate a QR code from its surroundings.

Types of QR codes

The most common is the "Model 2", which is an improved version of the initial model produced by Denso Wave. However, there are several types of QR codes:

Model 1 and 2: The first model is the initial version of the QR code developed by Denso Wave and the second model is the improved version of the first and capable of storing more information.

Micro QR: It is the QR code in its reduced version. It can be up to four different sizes depending on the content and the level of error correction you have.

SQRC: This has a restriction on reading data, so it is used to manage the private and internal information of companies.

FrameQR: In this code, illustrations or photographs can be added without damaging their content. It is usually used in companies, which add their logo to enhance their corporate image.

Credit: RCC Auto Transport

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8 big announcements from Google I/O 2018

Google kicked off its annual I/O developer conference at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California. Here are some of the biggest announcements from the Day 1 keynote. There will be more to come over the next couple of days, so follow along on everything Google I/O on TechCrunch. 

Google goes all in on artificial intelligence, rebranding its research division to Google AI

Just before the keynote, Google announced it is rebranding its Google Research division to Google AI. The move signals how Google has increasingly focused R&D on computer vision, natural language processing, and neural networks.

Google makes talking to the Assistant more natural with “continued conversation”

What Google announced: Google announced a “continued conversation” update to Google Assistant that makes talking to the Assistant feel more natural. Now, instead of having to say “Hey Google” or “OK Google” every time you want to say a command, you’ll only have to do so the first time. The company also is adding a new feature that allows you to ask multiple questions within the same request. All this will roll out in the coming weeks.

Why it’s important: When you’re having a typical conversation, odds are you are asking follow-up questions if you didn’t get the answer you wanted. But it can be jarring to have to say “Hey Google” every single time, and it breaks the whole flow and makes the process feel pretty unnatural. If Google wants to be a significant player when it comes to voice interfaces, the actual interaction has to feel like a conversation — not just a series of queries.

Google Photos gets an AI boost

What Google announced: Google Photos already makes it easy for you to correct photos with built-in editing tools and AI-powered features for automatically creating collages, movies and stylized photos. Now, Photos is getting more AI-powered fixes like B&W photo colorization, brightness correction and suggested rotations. A new version of the Google Photos app will suggest quick fixes and tweaks like rotations, brightness corrections or adding pops of color.

Why it’s important: Google is working to become a hub for all of your photos, and it’s able to woo potential users by offering powerful tools to edit, sort, and modify those photos. Each additional photo Google gets offers it more data and helps them get better and better at image recognition, which in the end not only improves the user experience for Google, but also makes its own tools for its services better. Google, at its heart, is a search company — and it needs a lot of data to get visual search right.

Google Assistant and YouTube are coming to Smart Displays

What Google announced: Smart Displays were the talk of Google’s CES push this year, but we haven’t heard much about Google’s Echo Show competitor since. At I/O, we got a little more insight into the company’s smart display efforts. Google’s first Smart Displays will launch in July, and of course will be powered by Google Assistant and YouTube . It’s clear that the company’s invested some resources into building a visual-first version of Assistant, justifying the addition of a screen to the experience.

Why it’s important: Users are increasingly getting accustomed to the idea of some smart device sitting in their living room that will answer their questions. But Google is looking to create a system where a user can ask questions and then have an option to have some kind of visual display for actions that just can’t be resolved with a voice interface. Google Assistant handles the voice part of that equation — and having YouTube is a good service that goes alongside that.

Google Assistant is coming to Google Maps

What Google announced: Google Assistant is coming to Google Maps, available on iOS and Android this summer. The addition is meant to provide better recommendations to users. Google has long worked to make Maps seem more personalized, but since Maps is now about far more than just directions, the company is introducing new features to give you better recommendations for local places.

The maps integration also combines the camera, computer vision technology, and Google Maps with Street View. With the camera/Maps combination, it really looks like you’ve jumped inside Street View. Google Lens can do things like identify buildings, or even dog breeds, just by pointing your camera at the object in question. It will also be able to identify text.

Why it’s important: Maps is one of Google’s biggest and most important products. There’s a lot of excitement around augmented reality — you can point to phenomena like Pokémon Go — and companies are just starting to scratch the surface of the best use cases for it. Figuring out directions seems like such a natural use case for a camera, and while it was a bit of a technical feat, it gives Google yet another perk for its Maps users to keep them inside the service and not switch over to alternatives. Again, with Google, everything comes back to the data, and it’s able to capture more data if users stick around in its apps.

Google announces a new generation for its TPU machine learning hardware

What Google announced: As the war for creating customized AI hardware heats up, Google said that it is rolling out its third generation of silicon, the Tensor Processor Unit 3.0. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the new TPU is 8x more powerful than last year per pod, with up to 100 petaflops in performance. Google joins pretty much every other major company in looking to create custom silicon in order to handle its machine operations.

Why it’s important: There’s a race to create the best machine learning tools for developers. Whether that’s at the framework level with tools like TensorFlow or PyTorch or at the actual hardware level, the company that’s able to lock developers into its ecosystem will have an advantage over the its competitors. It’s especially important as Google looks to build its cloud platform, GCP, into a massive business while going up against Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft Azure. Giving developers — who are already adopting TensorFlow en masse — a way to speed up their operations can help Google continue to woo them into Google’s ecosystem.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – MAY 08: Google CEO Sundar Pichai delivers the keynote address at the Google I/O 2018 Conference at Shoreline Amphitheater on May 8, 2018 in Mountain View, California. Google’s two day developer conference runs through Wednesday May 9. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Google News gets an AI-powered redesign

What Google announced: Watch out, Facebook . Google is also planning to leverage AI in a revamped version of Google News. The AI-powered, redesigned news destination app will “allow users to keep up with the news they care about, understand the full story, and enjoy and support the publishers they trust.” It will leverage elements found in Google’s digital magazine app, Newsstand and YouTube, and introduces new features like “newscasts” and “full coverage” to help people get a summary or a more holistic view of a news story.

Why it’s important: Facebook’s main product is literally called “News Feed,” and it serves as a major source of information for a non-trivial portion of the planet. But Facebook is embroiled in a scandal over personal data of as many as 87 million users ending up in the hands of a political research firm, and there are a lot of questions over Facebook’s algorithms and whether they surface up legitimate information. That’s a huge hole that Google could exploit by offering a better news product and, once again, lock users into its ecosystem.

Google unveils ML Kit, an SDK that makes it easy to add AI smarts to iOS and Android apps

What Google announced: Google unveiled ML Kit, a new software development kit for app developers on iOS and Android that allows them to integrate pre-built, Google-provided machine learning models into apps. The models support text recognition, face detection, barcode scanning, image labeling and landmark recognition.

Why it’s important: Machine learning tools have enabled a new wave of use cases that include use cases built on top of image recognition or speech detection. But even though frameworks like TensorFlow have made it easier to build applications that tap those tools, it can still take a high level of expertise to get them off the ground and running. Developers often figure out the best use cases for new tools and devices, and development kits like ML Kit help lower the barrier to entry and give developers without a ton of expertise in machine learning a playground to start figuring out interesting use cases for those appliocations.

So when will you be able to actually play with all these new features? The Android P beta is available today, and you can find the upgrade here.

Read more: feedproxy.google.com

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8 big announcements from Google I/O 2018

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8 big announcements from Google I/O 2018

Google kicked off its annual I/O developer conference at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California. Here are some of the biggest announcements from the Day 1 keynote. There will be more to come over the next couple of days, so follow along on everything Google I/O on TechCrunch. 

Google goes all in on artificial intelligence, rebranding its research division to Google AI

Just before the keynote, Google announced it is rebranding its Google Research division to Google AI. The move signals how Google has increasingly focused R&D on computer vision, natural language processing, and neural networks.

Google makes talking to the Assistant more natural with “continued conversation”

What Google announced: Google announced a “continued conversation” update to Google Assistant that makes talking to the Assistant feel more natural. Now, instead of having to say “Hey Google” or “OK Google” every time you want to say a command, you’ll only have to do so the first time. The company also is adding a new feature that allows you to ask multiple questions within the same request. All this will roll out in the coming weeks.

Why it’s important: When you’re having a typical conversation, odds are you are asking follow-up questions if you didn’t get the answer you wanted. But it can be jarring to have to say “Hey Google” every single time, and it breaks the whole flow and makes the process feel pretty unnatural. If Google wants to be a significant player when it comes to voice interfaces, the actual interaction has to feel like a conversation — not just a series of queries.

Google Photos gets an AI boost

What Google announced: Google Photos already makes it easy for you to correct photos with built-in editing tools and AI-powered features for automatically creating collages, movies and stylized photos. Now, Photos is getting more AI-powered fixes like B&W photo colorization, brightness correction and suggested rotations. A new version of the Google Photos app will suggest quick fixes and tweaks like rotations, brightness corrections or adding pops of color.

Why it’s important: Google is working to become a hub for all of your photos, and it’s able to woo potential users by offering powerful tools to edit, sort, and modify those photos. Each additional photo Google gets offers it more data and helps them get better and better at image recognition, which in the end not only improves the user experience for Google, but also makes its own tools for its services better. Google, at its heart, is a search company — and it needs a lot of data to get visual search right.

Google Assistant and YouTube are coming to Smart Displays

What Google announced: Smart Displays were the talk of Google’s CES push this year, but we haven’t heard much about Google’s Echo Show competitor since. At I/O, we got a little more insight into the company’s smart display efforts. Google’s first Smart Displays will launch in July, and of course will be powered by Google Assistant and YouTube . It’s clear that the company’s invested some resources into building a visual-first version of Assistant, justifying the addition of a screen to the experience.

Why it’s important: Users are increasingly getting accustomed to the idea of some smart device sitting in their living room that will answer their questions. But Google is looking to create a system where a user can ask questions and then have an option to have some kind of visual display for actions that just can’t be resolved with a voice interface. Google Assistant handles the voice part of that equation — and having YouTube is a good service that goes alongside that.

Google Assistant is coming to Google Maps

What Google announced: Google Assistant is coming to Google Maps, available on iOS and Android this summer. The addition is meant to provide better recommendations to users. Google has long worked to make Maps seem more personalized, but since Maps is now about far more than just directions, the company is introducing new features to give you better recommendations for local places.

The maps integration also combines the camera, computer vision technology, and Google Maps with Street View. With the camera/Maps combination, it really looks like you’ve jumped inside Street View. Google Lens can do things like identify buildings, or even dog breeds, just by pointing your camera at the object in question. It will also be able to identify text.

Why it’s important: Maps is one of Google’s biggest and most important products. There’s a lot of excitement around augmented reality — you can point to phenomena like Pokémon Go — and companies are just starting to scratch the surface of the best use cases for it. Figuring out directions seems like such a natural use case for a camera, and while it was a bit of a technical feat, it gives Google yet another perk for its Maps users to keep them inside the service and not switch over to alternatives. Again, with Google, everything comes back to the data, and it’s able to capture more data if users stick around in its apps.

Google announces a new generation for its TPU machine learning hardware

What Google announced: As the war for creating customized AI hardware heats up, Google said that it is rolling out its third generation of silicon, the Tensor Processor Unit 3.0. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the new TPU is 8x more powerful than last year per pod, with up to 100 petaflops in performance. Google joins pretty much every other major company in looking to create custom silicon in order to handle its machine operations.

Why it’s important: There’s a race to create the best machine learning tools for developers. Whether that’s at the framework level with tools like TensorFlow or PyTorch or at the actual hardware level, the company that’s able to lock developers into its ecosystem will have an advantage over the its competitors. It’s especially important as Google looks to build its cloud platform, GCP, into a massive business while going up against Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft Azure. Giving developers — who are already adopting TensorFlow en masse — a way to speed up their operations can help Google continue to woo them into Google’s ecosystem.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – MAY 08: Google CEO Sundar Pichai delivers the keynote address at the Google I/O 2018 Conference at Shoreline Amphitheater on May 8, 2018 in Mountain View, California. Google’s two day developer conference runs through Wednesday May 9. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Google News gets an AI-powered redesign

What Google announced: Watch out, Facebook . Google is also planning to leverage AI in a revamped version of Google News. The AI-powered, redesigned news destination app will “allow users to keep up with the news they care about, understand the full story, and enjoy and support the publishers they trust.” It will leverage elements found in Google’s digital magazine app, Newsstand and YouTube, and introduces new features like “newscasts” and “full coverage” to help people get a summary or a more holistic view of a news story.

Why it’s important: Facebook’s main product is literally called “News Feed,” and it serves as a major source of information for a non-trivial portion of the planet. But Facebook is embroiled in a scandal over personal data of as many as 87 million users ending up in the hands of a political research firm, and there are a lot of questions over Facebook’s algorithms and whether they surface up legitimate information. That’s a huge hole that Google could exploit by offering a better news product and, once again, lock users into its ecosystem.

Google unveils ML Kit, an SDK that makes it easy to add AI smarts to iOS and Android apps

What Google announced: Google unveiled ML Kit, a new software development kit for app developers on iOS and Android that allows them to integrate pre-built, Google-provided machine learning models into apps. The models support text recognition, face detection, barcode scanning, image labeling and landmark recognition.

Why it’s important: Machine learning tools have enabled a new wave of use cases that include use cases built on top of image recognition or speech detection. But even though frameworks like TensorFlow have made it easier to build applications that tap those tools, it can still take a high level of expertise to get them off the ground and running. Developers often figure out the best use cases for new tools and devices, and development kits like ML Kit help lower the barrier to entry and give developers without a ton of expertise in machine learning a playground to start figuring out interesting use cases for those appliocations.

So when will you be able to actually play with all these new features? The Android P beta is available today, and you can find the upgrade here.

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Retail Insights February 16, 2018 http://ift.tt/2EwGMz9

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Beautiful roses with wedding rings

Beautiful Wigs

Big Shopping Bag encourage customers to buy more products

Bin with flap prevents rubbish odour from wafting out

Black font of brand name against dark grey shoe box fail to create brand awareness (waste of printing cost)

Buy this pairing of belt and pants that complement each other

Giordano

Chopping Board for different purposes

Clogged Drainage System Flood Singapore's Streets

Commando Security Guards Patrol This Mall

Welcome to Shaw Online!

Cute Mug

Different way of hanging clothing attract customers into store

Display products at the corner of the shelf edge to up profits

Gaming ERA - Singapore, Singapore - Video Games ...

DVD in fishbowl display

Poh Kim Video

DVD store welcome suggestions

Ethical Pet Shop advise shoppers not to buy pets on impulse

Facials that taste so good

Fans outside store cool shoppers n attract them in

Y is pointing out design flaws important for the next generation

Weighing Scale Magnifies its weight readings

Footprints direct u to the cashier

Getting Head over Heels for Surfing

Glass ledge of display window obstruct front view of product

Good Telco Products come in Pairs

StarHub Ltd Official Website

Yellow Teeth of Magazine Boy

Watch that tell the time of two countries

When things get Bitchy; Be Well Dressed

What is the cost of waiting to get free newspapers against the productivity of the nation

Green carpeting relaxes customers as they enter golf shop

-Stop! Looking at my Chest Please-T-Shirt for Ladies

How to encourage Staff to take the initiative to check if walk-in customers need help

Implement a Sales Tally Board and hang it in a conspicuous corner of the store within all staff view. Optus Melbourne - Springvale

How do small stores sell Bikinis

When customers are interested in a range of bikinis and they may not be able to try it on for hygiene reasons, why not 1. little signs with model no. On the stand hanging the bikini,> customers could enter the model no. in the IPAD stand to view how models look wearing that bikini. 2. If there are other concerns, the sales staff could simply hold the IPAD and talk and show to the customer on the "Bikinis" in action. Photos of models wearing the bikini on the IPAD

Trick Eye idea for Angel Wings and Halo for photo taking

Y not Green Pallets that contrast with Grey Hamsters

Grey Pallets makes it difficult to view the grey hamsters. 

Given that Singapore sells edible green coloured spinach noodles. 

Y does not have pet safe green pallets that create a relaxing contrast with the hamsters colour?

How to pick up chicks - t-shirt

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Imagine Special / Nuru Massage Masseuse starts their sales pitch with this sentence

I was nearly pulled into one of the special massage places at Orchard Plaza, Singapore. I will have went in if they start their sales pitch with .. "I give u special price because u are so handsome" after "Come ..."

Dressed to Seduce - Dress Idea

1. Translucent long skirt / one-piece dress. Flowery Lacey top with a transcluent long skirt. You can see a vague mini skirt through the translucent skirt. 2. Beige underlay dress with black flower lacey patterns on the beige dress. It gives the illusion that the wearer is naked below the black flower lacey patterns

Y use scotch tape instead of stapler for receipts at the cashier

Politically correct reason = Environmentally Friendly Real reason = cut cost

Dog Groomer that comes to your home makes lots of money

Morphsuit Mannequin helps to sell Sun Glasses

Quirky Tattoo Parlour quote

"In GOD we trust..., all others pay ca$h" by Johnny two thumb Tattoo parlour - Far East Plaza

How to bring customers attention to ur BIG SALE

What is the logo or image that communicate product sales or discounts to all races? Promotional discount. Will you reject cash from customers that don't understand English?

Y not a charity donation box at each money changer

How about a sculpture of a dog, with a hole on its head for gathering donation for the Singapore Prevention of Cruelty to Animals besides the branded money changer e.g. UOB bank at Changi Airport.

Y not a group of mannequins in the same outfit n pose with one mannequin in a different pose, colours n outfit

How optical shops could help the elderly to see

Donate your old eyeglasses n help old people to see. 1st eye care. The central mall, Clarke quay Singapore

How could the cashier go the extra mile to provide service excellence

What if competing clothing brand's cashier ask customers if they like them to help remove the tag. Applies to low traffic high-profit brands or store

Advertising in 1 sentence.

"I make u feel better if u buy me"

How do u sell wood

Naked Man with yellow construction helmet. Holding a plank covering his manhood. Wood. 100% Wood.

Bag tag prevent being stolen by striking compassion in thief

Bag tag = "Please don't take my bag. I had already misplaced my keys n glasses"

-When nothing goes right. Go left-shirt

Quirky Tattoo Parlour quote

"In GOD we trust..., all others pay ca$h" by Johnny two thumb Tattoo parlour - Far East Plaza

How to bring customers attention to ur BIG SALE

What is the logo or image that communicate product sales or discounts to all races? Promotional discount. Will you reject cash from customers that don't understand English?

How optical shops could help the elderly to see

Donate your old eyeglasses n help old people to see. 1st eye care. The central mall, Clarke Quay Singapore.

Store's Nameboard communicate sales line instead of brand name

"Where dogs play all day" name board is seen at upper Thomson road, Singapore instead of "XXX petshop"

$ale <- would this logo be seen in retail stores

Photo of my head Popping out of giant shoe taken with shoe's brand name

Chewing gum lighter. Grenade coin pouch. Animal necks as mug handle

G Shock Robot watch head attract buyers

Plaza Singapura

"Do u need anything else" sign scattered beside price tags in supermarkets or stores

Beige underlay with flowery lace sexy dress

How to compete if you r a money changer

Moneychanger with foreign exchange rate board showing 3 to 4 digit places gets more customers than other money changers that only show 2 or 1 digit places

Cool mall guard on wheels

Global warming; it's not cool

T-shirt quote

Clip on pram safety armrest in front of baby in pram

How to get babies attention to take their photos

Hold phone playing cartoon video beside camera held by photographer to take pictures of babies

Barcode newspaper

JML hot nails

Name for the tattoo parlour. LOVESICK TATTOO Singapore

How do post office take passport photos

A white screen drops down from the ceiling in front of the service counter at a push of a button. The customer stands in between the white screen and the service counter. The staff takes a picture of the customer with a camera and prints their passport photos for them.

Don't touch my stuff or my face or my hair- bag

360 degrees rotation for Rollerball at the end of walking cane needed for effortless use by the Blind

How to take Egg Yolks out of Eggs

Which Battery Brand do Firemen Trust

Prevent theft with a Policeman at ur store Entrance

Hulk wants to get into ur world

Wish I can see the sizes of the clothing at a single glance

Design of Mall's Floor eliminates obvious distraction from Dirt

Reduce wastage of brochure n max outreach if distributor wears a conspicuous signage

Get Flexible with Louis Vuitton

R Money more Important than Friends

Conspicuous Mall Directory

Happy Christmas Tree

Bridge over a pond

Prevent Shoplifting by communicating the penalties explicitly at the storefront

Train Station signage inform passengers which exit leads to the mall

A simple logo encourages people to spend and dine in the mall which boosts the economy, that's what the rich upper class says.

Store display top fridges viewable at a single glance

How do u know which Cleaning Sign belongs to which Floor

How to get kids to stay still for their haircut

Does ur store incline display television from the bottom shelf

Sales Signage positioned in line with name board attract customers

Nameboards on space between Mall's Floors attract shoppers

Y not offer Gift Wrapping Services for Charity

Colour coding Toys Store Layout

Recruitment Poster attract candidates by showing career path upfront

Enumerating Newspaper headlines helps readers to locate information quickly

TaylorMade nameboard

One Lock to Lock them all

Lighted Willow Tree

Soft toys help to sell kids jewellery

Bag with Giant Zip

Put a Condom on top of tis Christmas Light Stick and have fun with it playing jingles

Glow in the Dark Watch

Contrast clothing on mannequin with background of plants gives honest info to customers in jungle Singapore

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Packaging Design: Tips, Ideas, and Inspiration

Packaging design isn’t the easiest thing to do. And once you send the design to the client and he starts printing, you can’t CTRL+Z your errors.

Try to imagine a world without packaging.

You probably can’t, or at least you find that the result to be a disorganized mess.

It’s easy to underestimate the necessity of packaging. It is important to have cans for your soda, a wrapper for your candy, or even a hamper for your laundry.

Package design is not only practical but it forms so much of our visual world.

Good product package design is more than just a container; it tells a story. Packaging design engages the viewer through all the senses—sight, sound, touch, sometimes even taste and sound.

This engagement should help the viewer (your potential customer!) understand what the product is used for, how to use it, who might want to use it, and whether or not they should buy it at all.

Achieving this goal can be daunting. Product packaging design is the translation of 2D package designs into 3D packaging designs.

This is an intimidating task, but it doesn’t have to be as difficult as you fear. Here are some ideas for package design inspiration to help make the process easier.

You will learn how to get your 2D packaging design ideas ready for printing and we will offer you a look of some different print finishes you can use for your box package design.

Picking the Best Software for Your Packaging Design

You need to pick out the best program for designing packaging before you really start in on the design process. You will probably end up sending the finished design to the manufacturer in a vector format.

Vector files can be scaled easily. It is very easy to create a dieline templates with the line and shape tools in vector programs like Inkscape or Adobe Illustrator.

3D visualization is a bit harder. Vector software is normally designed for 2D images, though you can use plugins or even other programs to help you out.

It also allowed you to rotate the 3D version of your packaging design so you can work on it from different angles. These is also a toll called Cinema 4D which can render flat deisigns into 3D.

It’s fairly common to skip these plugin and programs, and simply opt to create a mockup a photorealistic design in Adobe Photoshop.

Three Important Questions

Before you even start on your custom package design, you need to ask yourself these three important questions:

What is your product?

Who is buying your product?

How are people buying your product?

These questions will help you find the right mindset to start out with your packaging design. Let’s look at them in more detail.

1. What is your product?

This is a simple one. What is the product you are trying to sell? How big is it? What is it made of? Is it fragile? Does it need to be kept at a certain temperature?

By answering this question, you will be able to determine the logistical requirements of your packaging design.

More fragile products require more secure and reinforced packaging. Large or weirdly shaped items will need custom packaging, made specifically for the product.

Items that need to be transported and sold cold will need to be made of materials that can handle the temperature without issue. If your product is going to microwaveable in the package, it needs to be designed accordingly.

2. Who is buying your product?

What is your target demographic? Is your product meant to be used by men, women, both? It is it for children? Is it meant for environmentally conscious customers? Is it being sold to people on a budget, or is it meant as a luxury item?

Awesome designs are geared towards the customer. It needs to appeals to its ideal customers. You will need to do some research before you begin your design. This can also be a good source of packaging design inspiration.

For instance, a product designed for older people may need to use large text, while medicine meant for children should have extensive safety features. Products meant for the budget-conscious customer should be simple and pragmatic. Packaging for luxury items should seem luxurious itself.

3. How are people buying your product?

How does your product get from the retailer’s store or warehouse to your customer? Is it being sold in a big box store? Will it be bought off the internet and shipped to customers, or will they go get it at a small boutique store?

The answers will affect your packaging. Items that will be shipped from a warehouse to a home address require a different kind of packaging than they would if they were being sold in a department store or supermarket.

Products sold online should have streamlined packaging without any extra space that will allow it to rattle around and possibly be damaged. Anything sold in smaller, boutique shops should have charming designs to catch the eye.

Research, Research, Research!

Information is key. It is the only way you will be able to answer those three key questions above. It’s easy to become overwhelmed by information as you do this. To help you with information overload, focus on these key areas as you do your research:

Brand Requirements

If a product is a part of an established brand, it will have certain aesthetic requirements to fit with the branding campaign. Every brand has its own aesthetic. You need to research these key components of it:

Color- the best way to get the correct colros is to find the brand’s chosen CMYK values or Pantone Matching Values (PMS). These are meant for printing, so should make your design easier to complete. If you cannot get these values, see if you can get a hex code.

Logo- Get the vector file of any logos you may need. Logos are often the core of a branding campaign. You can design a great package, but without the logo it will fail at one its core purposes and be rejected.

Font- Get the correct fonts for the brand. If there are any specific instructions about the kerning or weight, make sure you follow those. This is not only a part of branding, but also often something that has been researched for marketability and readability.

Content Requirements

Every product is going to have unique content requirements. Some of it is a part of the brand’s own standards, like a certain mission statement or part of an advertising campaign. Other requirements are legal obligations, like nutritional information, contents, and hazardous material warnings.

Certain products might need to have expiration dates or batch marks placed on the packaging. These will probably not be printed on the packaging (they will probably be stickers) but you should leave room for them and make sure it does not disrupt any other important elements of the design. You may need to include a barcode or association marks.

Any symbols or text, whether required by the industry, the company, or by law, will need to readable. Do not get so wrapped up in making your creative packaging that you forget the pragmatic requirements. It can be harder to pull off than you think.

Factor in Budget

Budget is one of the most important elements of product packaging design. The budgets for these box designs are broken into two categories:

One-time costs- These costs includes the payment for the original design, print plate setup for large offset print runs, or purchasing a stamp for the do-it-yourself path. These costs are paid up front and typically they are paid only once unless you change the design.

Per item costs- These costs include the payment for the labor and materials. Every box costs a set amount. So will any tissue paper you stuff in it and any tape you seal it with. You will also need to pay someone to put the product in the box unless you choose to do it yourself.

Get a general idea of how much you are willing to spend before you even begin the design process. Cheaper does not always work out better.

Paying a bit more for quality materials can make a big difference in the presentation of your design. It can make your work stand out from your competition and help you with your selling price.

Do Not Forget About Style

Style is a crucial element you need to research as well. The best way to get a sense of current, stylish box designs is to start collecting images of stylish packaging. Take photos when you are out shopping. Use a Pinterest board to collect interesting design you see online.

Style is a complex thing. The packaging design ideas you see might have elements you like, rather than the whole thing. You might like the shape of certain package or a certain color, or a print that you see on a friend’s furniture.

It’s important to remember here that you are not looking for yourself, but instead for your product’s target demographic. Your personal style might be slick and modern, but if you’re trying to sell vintage candy, that is probably not the best style use for the packaging.

You should also look into materials, an often forgotten element of style for packaging design. Innovative packaging, in particular, uses interesting and new materials.

Take a look around as you shop and visit friends, much as you do for all the other elements of design. It is not a decision you can really make now, but it should be a decision you keep in mind as you create your box design.

Once you finish all your research—brand requirements, content requirements, budget, and style— you can begin to get down to the hard and fun work of actually designing your product packaging.

A good tip for the actual design work is to have the packaging tell a story. The choices you make based on your research are going to help you tell that story.

Understand the Use of Packaging Layers

Product packaging consists of three layers: outer packaging, inner packaging, and product packaging. Your product may or may not need any or all of these, depending on many factors (which you’ve already researched).

The outer packaging layer is what customers will see first. It performs more than an aesthetic function. It also protects the product from the elements. Outer packaging could include the box the product will ship in or bag that will be used at the store.

The inner packaging layer keeps the product safe inside the outer packaging. It could be tissue paper, a foam cradle, or even packing peanuts, anything that keeps an item from being jostled, scuffed, or damaged. It could also be something that keeps a food item fresh, like a sealed bag.

The product packaging layer is what you probably think it is. This layer includes the box an item is in, the labelled bottle, a tag on a piece of clothing, or a wrapper for a chocolate bar.

Every one of these layers should be a consideration in your overall design, as they all play a part in the message and story it tells.

Pick the Right Kind of Packaging

There are a lot of packaging design ideas out there. Knowing the right one to use requires a bit of thought. It can typically be easy to choose between a bottle and box. On occasion—for instance, when your product is vitamin pills—it may require a bit more thought. It really all depends on your product.

Your product is the most important consideration in your packaging design. You want to showcase it and catch customers’ eyes. Your product seem may seem to limit you, but remember that unique packaging is a possibility.

Capri Sun and Go-Gurt both sell liquids, but they changed the way their product was perceived and even used by using unconventional packaging for their products.

This can help your product stand out from the competition. Selling fruit juice in something other than a typical jug can catch the eye and market it very well without any extra help. This can backfire, however. Customers used to seeing a certain type of product in a certain type of packaging can be thrown off when they see something different.

Even with clear labelling, they may not pick up on what you are selling. If you are going the unconventional route with your packaging design, think it though carefully.

Also think about your budget for every package. Unusually shaped boxes cost more to produce, for instance. Can your budget handle the extra cost? The customer is an important factor here. Knowing how much your product will be bought for means you can better evaluate how much money you have to spend on the packaging design.

Get a Color Guide

A good color guide is invaluable. Accuracy colors is important to branding and getting the most up-to-date color guide will help everyone involved achieve their goals. It will help you avoid any unpleasant surprises that might occur once the box design has been printed.

Colors might fade over time, especially with heavy usage. In fact, you should expect them to do so. Update you color guides at the end of every year.

Line Up a Good Printer

As with many other kinds of design, packaging designs can be thrown off by the simplest oversights. You won’t start printing until you are done with design phase of your project. It should be in your mind long before you get to this point, however.

Connecting with a good printer will help you on a lot of levels. It will save you on the costs of printing. Giving the printer a call or sending them an email can get you some more specific information that will help you with your overall design.

Make sure you ask the printer about:

File format requirements- the printer will need a vector file. It might need to be a layered file, or you may need to include cut-lines. Make sure to supply a print-ready file, normally an Adobe Illustrator file (.ai) Photoshop file (.psd), PDF, or EPS. If you do not have the right software this can be a problem since you won’t be able open the files. You should always supply everyone involved PNG or JPG visual mockups that can be easily opened by anyone with a computer. Always double check your file types before you send them out.

Dielines- A printer should be capable of providing you dieline templates for standard size box or label sizes.

Color options- Occasionally printers can color-match any Pantone color. Less expensive printers tend to have a much more limited color palette available.

Offset printing vs. digital printing- Make sure you know which kind of printing your printer uses. If they use offset printing, find out their minimum order number. Learn how the costs scale.

Create Your Information Architecture

Customers will look at will remember one thing when seeing your packaging design. You can put an immense amount of effort into every element of your box design, from your color, to your materials, to the copy. All of that does matter, but the customer will still only remember one part of the design.

Decide early on in the design phase what you want that one thing to be. It should be the most appealing and important thing about product (hazard warnings are probably not a good choice, for instance). It needs to be the centerpiece of your design.

Everything else should complement it. You should only add in two or three more things you want to show about product. This keeps the important information front and center, not overwhelmed in extraneous info or too small to find.

Remember, your packaging design is about selling a product to customer. The customer should be the focus of your entire design process.

Evaluating Your Packaging Design

Once you have some designs, you can evaluate them. This can be hard to do, especially if you’ve created multiple iterations. They can blur together and be hard to differentiate.

Is it clear what the product is?

The packaging should let customers know what the product is, what it does, and who it is for. People will only buy something which has a purpose they can quickly understand. You need to make certain that your box design does not look like it belongs to something else, unless that is the intention. The last thing you want to do is confuse your customers.

Is the packaging honest in its representation of the product?

Almost as bad as confusing consumers is misleading them. You need to make sure any images on the packaging are actually images of your product. You could of course try to make a good impression and put your best face forward, but do not lie.

Especially with the advent of internet reviews, the truth will come out to the public very quickly. Make sure your customers do not feel cheated.

What will the packaging design look like in 3D?

You should make two mockups: one in 2D, your flat print design, and another in 3D. The 3D mockup will give everyone, including yourself, a clear idea of what the completed project will look like. You can create this mockup by printing the design out on white paper and assembling it into the correct shape.

You will notice things on this 3D mockup you wouldn’t on a 2D version. Occasionally flat images will look very good, but the 3D mockup will not look good at all.

How will the package look in stores?

How much of the packaging will be visible in the store? The product will probably be displayed in a line next to similar product. Only one side will be immediately visible. You should make sure the most important information is going to be front and center for possible customers to see.

You should also think of what the box design will look like when a bunch of these boxes are stacked together. They may create a distinctive pattern. You need to figure out if you want that pattern or not.

Next, think about how the product will look when it is sitting next to your competition, as it very well might. Do some scouting and go to stores where the product could be sold. See how the competition looks. What will it take to get your packaging design noticed? Bear in mind that the purpose and nature of your product should remain clear to your target demographic.

Is this packaging design versatile?

While your product may only have one variation right now, that may not remain the case. You could end up with multiple flavors of a product, for instance, or similar items belonging to same brand. Your packaging design should be easy to modify for these variations. You should be able to keep the branding the same while conveying the nature of this different product.

Is the packaging reusable?

Figure out if the packaging design is reusable. If it is, decide if you want it to be. You may not be able to reuse the packaging for every product. However, for those that you can reuse, think of it as free marketing. Clever use of reuse might even be used a selling point.

Collect Feedback

After you complete your initial design phase, it’s time to collect feedback. Don’t get your heart set on a certain design. You should run your concept(s) through your stakeholders and customers (or potential customers). You should even try asking people who have never heard of the product what they think of the design, to see if it could help grow the customer base.

These people will probably notice elements of the packaging design that you never would notice. Ask if they know from your box design what the product does, who is supposed to buy it, and what is the single key message they receive from the packaging.

Their answers will help you figure out if your packaging design is communicating what you want and need it to. With any issues identified, you can go back and make any modifications you need to.

Create a Dieline

A dieline will be the flat template of your packaging design. Is it normally created in a vector program using simple liens and shaped. The dieline should inform the printer where the packaging should be cut and perforated. The cutting, or trim, lines and perforation, or fold, lines should be placed in separate layers in spot colors. The cutting and trimming will happen at different stages.

Rename the dieline layers in your vector document as ‘DO NOT PRINT’. This makes it clear to the manufacturer that those layers are meant for post-print processing.

Creating dielines can be a bit awkward and difficult at first. It is one of those things that gets easier with practice. A nice form of practice is to find a box with similar dimensions as you packaging design. Take it apart and measure it. These measurements will be the basis of your dieline creation.

A Box is Not Just a Box

It is a mistake to think of a box as a simple box. Take a look at the packaging you see in your home or office. Many of them are probably some kind of box, varying in size, shape, and depth. They might have flaps integrated into the sign, or they could have a separate lid.

There are, functionally, two kinds of boxes: setup boxes and folding carton. Setup boxes are more expensive to produce and are typically used for high-end products. These are the kinds of box designs you see for retail packaging and gift boxes.

They normally have two parts: a top tray and a bottom tray. These kinds of boxes are what you should order if you want a very special box and do not mind spending more to have it made.

Folding cartons are used for many, many products. You see them for household goods to food products. They usually consist of a single template. It is created as a fold-out 2D design, printed on a card, then laminated, folded, cut, and glued together.

With this format, you can choose a box design that fits for your product and your retail price point. There is really no reason to package a product in an expensive box if it is being sold for a fairly low price.

Options for Closing the Box

Now you have a box format type chosen, next you need to pick out how to close it. It isn’t as simple as you might think. There are a dozens of options for box closure. Most are designed to work as sturdy seal for the bob while being easy to open when needed. The various types if box closures include (but are not limited to):

Standard Tuck End

Reverse Tuck End

Full Overlap Seal End

Do some research on the boxes at your home. Identify what kind of closure is what and how it works. There is no right or wrong kind of box closure. However, some types of closures are easier to design and some of the more complex ones work well without needing to be glued. This can save you time and money when you hit the production stage.

Styles of Boxes

There are a few styles of boxes that have industry standard formats and closure typed. A few of these more common styles of boxes are:

Pillow box— These have simple curved box shapes. They have curved closures to match and are normally used to package candy or cosmetics.

Display box— These are normally used for displaying point-of-purchase items on shelves and counters.

Edge-locked sleeve—These are the card covering ready meals and other food items.

Book style box— These are boxes in a book-like shape, with a hinged lid. You usually fine these used to package custom software and medical or cosmetic items.

Think Out of the Box

Boxes might be the most common type of packaging, but they are not your only option for packaging design. There are a lot more options! Boxes have the advantage of being easy to design as 2D templates. You might find your product is not going to work in a box however, as it is not that angular.

Tubes, pouches, and wraparound bottles might be a better fit. These are going to be harder to design. Good 3D modeling and accurate measurements are key to these sort of packaging designs. With these things, you can more accurately see how the design will look even on curved surfaces.

As it turns out, some kinds of packaging are even easier to produce than boxes. Nothing can be easier to make than labels, which are just a 2D sticker that needs only length and width measurements. Bags are also easy to create designs for, typically needing only a logo that will be repeated across a solid colored bag.

Working with Bottles and Other Curved Surfaces

The thing about curved surfaces is that the technical drawing rarely communicate the effect of the curve of the bottle or other container. The curvature can make the design take up more space than it would on a flat surface. See if you can get a print guide from the manufacturer for accurate measurements.

Think carefully about the layout of your marketing copy. It should not be difficult for a consumer to read the information of the bottle. Think of how difficult it is to read a bottle when you have to keep turning it around to follow the text. Remember, you can compensate for conical distortion in your design using the ‘wrap’ command in Adobe Illustrator.

Mockups are particularly important for curved packaging designs. You will be able to get a better sense of the way your design looks with a truly three dimensional images that you can turn every which way.

You’ll be able to see for yourself how easy and legible any text is, or if the curvature warps any images or other graphics in a weird (or even inappropriate) way. You can also make sure the label fits properly, if that is what you are designing, and is neither too long not too short.

Spot Checking

Both you and you client should check to see if the finished printed batches of the design are right. Look for plate slippage, which occurs when there are slight changes in batch in what should be straightened artwork. Inconsistent color is another issue that crops up.

Color consistency can change across separate print runs when ink batches or changed or even when ink runs low during a single print run. It is also sometimes a mistake that happens made by your printer. There is also a rather shady move to hide defective or less-than-ideal pieces under perfect copies.

You should be thorough with your check and look throughout the batches. Don’t just glance at the ones displayed up front.

If you find any issues, talk with the printer to clear them up. This can be a difficult task, as money might be involved. At the end of the day, however, resolving these problems will be worth the hassle, as it will mean an accurate representation of your carefully planned packaging design is out there for the customer to see, rather than a warped version.

Terminology

Packaging design and creation is its own field in many ways. It gets far more technical than a new designer might think. Because of this, it has its own complex set of acronyms, blending the world of graphic design, computer programming, and even simple materials engineering.

Below we have assembled a set of references to help you understand the lingo used in packaging design. This will be especially helpful when you work with your printer, who will know these terms and their uses inside and out.

Packaging Design Terms

Adobe Illustrator (AI) file — Adobe Illustrator is a design program used to create the vector images needed for printing. Adobe Illustrator files us an .ai extension. To open these files, you will need Adobe Illustrator. If the program cannot be found on your computer, your printer will have it.

Barcodes (UPC and EAN) — Barcodes are the groups of lines found on just about every package. They store information abotut he product in a machine-readable data format. That product information includes price, quantity, and many other things. There are many different types of barcodes. The most predominantly used one in North America is the UPC (Universal Product Code) format. The commonly globally used format is the EAN (International Article Number). The acronym originally meant “European Article Number”, which is why there is an E still in its current version. You may choose to apply for these before you finish the packaging design. You should plan on a spot for it even if you do not apply it.

Bleed — In printing, a bleed is the term used when your design goes to the edge of your paper, box, or wrapper. Because of this, designers will actually add a little extra design to the edges. When the design is printed and cut to the correct size, this additional bit of design work allows a bit of room for error if the cuts are a little bit off.

Canister — A cylindrical or round container, often made of metal, used for storing things like food and chemicals.

CMYK — This common printing acronym stands for cyan (blue), magenta (red), yellow, and key (black). These four colors are the four colors used in printing. Every color has a CYMK code that a printer will can to help color match between your design and the finished package design.

Dielines —This is the flattened pattern of the product packaging. Designers and printers use them to create the correct layout for a package.

EPS — This stands for encapsulated postscript. The encapsulated postscript is a file extension for vector-based images. EPs is generally only opened in specialized graphic design programs.

Digital printing —Digital printing air a modern printing method that consist of sending information about the file to a printer digitally. After that is done, every piece of packaging is run individually through that printer. Digital printing works very well for small-runs and short turnaround times. The more traditional offset printing is usually much cheaper for larger print runs.

Offset printing — This is a printing technique using plates of your design are created in the four colors of CMYK. After they are created, these plates are run through a large industrial printer. Offset printing has high setup costs because the plates need to be custom created. In large volumes– typically over 1,000 or more units– it works much better for the price point

Pantone — Pantone is the company that created the Pantone Matching System (PMS). The PMS is a catalogue of standardized printing colors. Every color has an assigned number so that they can be reproduced nearly identically by any printer.

PDF — PDF is a widely recognized file format that means portable document format. It’s a versatile file format that be either a vector or raster. Remember vector files are what you want for your packaging design. PDF can support both text and images. PDFs can be opened on nearly any computer, as the Adobe PDF Viewer is free and normally standard on business computers.

Raster file type — Raster images are images made up of thousands of tiny dots, also known as pixels. Because of this, they are difficult to resize and are not what you want to use for your packaging design.

RGB — This widely used acronym stands for red, green and blue. These are the three primary colors that can be combined to create all other colors in visible light. The term is often used in reference to digital screens. RGB or hex codes are used to identify colors in a digital context. RGB codes can be converted into Pantone color and CMYK for printing.

Vector file type — Vector images are made up of lines. Because of this makeup, they are very easy to resize.

Common Back of Box Terms and Symbols

RoHS Compliant – Restriction of the use of Hazardous Substances. The materials this box is made of do not pose a health risk.

CE Mark – European Conformity. The product meets legislative regulations created out by the European Union. The term allows customers to know that the product meets a basic level of quality.

Green Dot – The Green Dot is a symbol lets consumers know that the manufacturer has covered the recovery and the recycling cost of a product. This cost is often a license fee that differs between various countries. It is also highly dependent on the materials used in the making of a product.

On opening; use by – This brief, often mechanically stamped words indicate the month and date a product will remain effective for before it is opened.

Recycling symbol (three arrows twisting and pointing to each other) – This symbol means that the material can be recycled. It is sometimes paired with a material ID number.

Leaping rabbit – The products in the package have not been tested on animals.

Soil Association symbol – The soil association has a large set of standards covering a the quality of the products from many different kinds of industries.

Vegetarian Society symbol– The product in the package has meet the Society’s regulations and is suitable for vegetarians.

IMPORTANT: Ensure that both you and the client understands their responsibility when using any of these marks. Slapping them on the packaging design without the testing to back them up or forgetting them when they are required is punishable by customer anger, media condemnation, and occasionally legal action.

Material Identification Codes

These are used to identify what material you plan or want an item to be made of. There are more, but here are a few common ones used for packaging:

HDPE – High Density Polyethylene

LDPE – Low Density Polyethylene

PP – Polypropylene

PETE – Polyethylene terephthalate

PS – Polystyrene

V (PVC) – Polyvinyl Chloride

Barcode Use and Terminology

Barcodes need to be acquired by registering at an official number supplier, like the GS1 or any of its various member organizations. This can be done by either the designer or the client. With that done, the officially supplied numbers can be used with a barcode generator found on the web to create an EPS file to use in the packaging design.

Make sure you check which kind of barcode you will be using before you output the file. For instance, in Europe and many other parts of the world, they normally use the EAN13 barcode format. The normal recommended size for barcode displayed on international packaging is 16mm high.

If you mess up either the format or the size, even the most innovative packaging design will be useless at its intended purpose. Always double check this kind of information.

You should remember that a ladder, in barcode terms, means the barcode is placed vertically. A gate is about the placement of a barcode horizontally. The terms at metaphors and it is easy to remember what they mean once you start using them regularly.

Batch Numbers

Batch numbers are normal for cosmetic or pharmaceutical products. Make sure you leave an unintrusive space for them in your design, as they will be placed on the packaging during actual production of the product.

They will be mechanically stamped in the directed area on the packaging. Your client should include this specification in their brief to you so it can be easy to work into your design.

Ending thoughts on packaging design

As you can see, innovative packaging design is complex and multifaceted process. It consists of many different stages. So much of the success of a packaging design lies in the communication between the client, the designer, and the printer.

Take your time, do your research, learn the right terms, pick the right programs, and make sure you are constantly talking to everyone involved. You might find yourself designing the next big marketing wonder!

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How Is Apples IOS 6 Passbook App Going to Alternate the Digital Wallet International?

How is Apples iOS 6 Passbook App Going to Impact Extraordinary Digital Wallets?

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A Stunning Consumer Interface

Apple’s Improvement of Passbook establishes a relaxed-famous for assisting and putting in virtual tickets, keep playing cards, coupons, and offers within the cellular iOS gadgets. An extraordinary array of competencies will appear on the time of the initial release with masses greater to examine as developers begin to combine the system a few vicinity else. Preceding to its professional launch, Apple has already built an existing list of massive stores that need to integrate the Passbook generation into cutting-edge iOS applications, which include Starbucks famous barcode billsfree apps store. extra small and huge corporations are expected to announce how they intend to use Passbook to their advantage towards the release date.

Passbook affords an excellent searching easy-to-use card-fashion Person interface (UI) that updates stay as the shop gambling cards or passes are used. Apple has taken care of the manner that a Customer, and the industrial organization, interacts with the Virtual Passes. There are high-quality constraints, similar to the period of the Pass, or the range of fields allowed, or how the Individual can pick out to be informed and so on.. but Apple try to provide an absolutely open machine. A software program that may be utilized by any shop wishing to offer virtual passes. There may also be a wealthy set of functions, such as time and place based facts, get entry to Previous shopping for history, and get proper of access to records.

Passes in the Passbook unfastened free apps store itself are very appealing. They honestly feel fantastic to look at and play with. It feels plenty greater twenty-first century than a filled Wallet or purse entire with paper and plastic. Each shape of Bypass has a slightly one of a kind fashion that allows the Patron to rapid discovers the proper one. For instance, a retail coupon has serrated cutting-edges to graphically illustrate a reduction or a movie fee price tag has a half of circle clipped on the pinnacle to illustrate the likeness of a ticket stub.

Those Passbook necessities and the API suggests Apple are developing their foundation for the manner they may wish to mix their technology with Visa, Credit card or similar fee card processing networks.

built in features

Passbook is a completely functioning application, and any commercial corporation growing and distributing Those passes could make the maximum the Passbook skills right now:

Geolocation Push Updates Calendar Updates Geolocation: The Pass will mechanically appear while the iPhone Man or woman reaches a specific location. when the tool is close to a store, or something area the Bypass creator chooses, a message appears on the lock display to alert the Patron that they have a Skip (in all likelihood a discount coupon or a loyalty card) that can be redeemed. Now not exceptional is that this very handy for the iPhone Consumer however moreover lets in stores the choice to push gives and incentives based on various criteria, together with that of the vicinity.

Examples:

A huge chain coffee company provides their loyalty card via Passbook in order that it opens automatically as soon as a Patron gets near a particular keep. Instant gets admission to is given to the barcode device which the Purchaser simply scans on the terminal and then they experience their cup of espresso. They do no longer even need to kind of their password to free up the phone. A Digital hold ‘pushes’ successful the Immediately they arrive at the store; Passbook notifies the client in their contemporary balance and the cut rate to be had. A mass transit railway business enterprise difficulty Passbook Passes to show the amount of rides or credit available, with a scannable barcode to be used at the ticket place of work. A ticketing organization troubles Passbook tickets so you can right away pop up on the time of the live performance, and all over again while the tool holder gets close to the venue; constructing up pleasure and maximizing target audience engagement. Push Updates: All coupons, playing cards, and tickets consist of the capacity to dynamically update. Updated statistics can be right away driven to the iPhone lock display which then opens up the correct Skip in Passbook. The awareness is pushed to the lock show, the relevant Bypass then appears and the Updated information is turned around, with some cool animation; brief informing the Character what is modified.

Examples:

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An airline troubles Passbook boarding passes. within the closing hour they need to Change departure gate, so push an replace to all the Passbook boarding Pass holders who fast get hold of the Updated notification and the Boarding Bypass is routinely Updated. A large retail store, problems it is loyalty gambling playing cards through Passbook. while someone spends over an advantageous quantity and they go with the flow to ‘Platinum reputation’, Passbook offers them a little ‘congratulation update’ and the Skip Image modifications color to suggest their new reputation. Integration with Calendar and Reminders: The Skip can be tagged with a sure date and time. If activated, the reminder can seem inside the Purchaser’s iOS calendar. At the best time, the reminder will seem at the Consumer’s tool and the can right away go directly to the applicable Pass in Passbook.

Examples:

An airline price ticket is bought with date exclusions and signals are sent to the Pass proprietor even as an to be had open date offers itself. a person sends his birthday invitations through Passbook and the usage of the calendar invite characteristic the unfastened apps will permit event tickets to be pushed directly to pals to sincerely be given and attend. By way of the use of combining Geolocation, live updates and the Reminder functionality the prevent Individual can live up for a splendidly wealthy revel in. And thanks to Apple’s ingenuity, the Client won’t be indignant By using the manner of the little subjects that might destroy the enjoy. As an example the display screen does now not rotate when a Pass is open; so in assessment to when the use of Safari, Passbook keeps your barcode in one orientation. moreover, the screen remains lit whilst a Skip is open; not anything would be more stressful than looking for to scan your Bypass and the screen saver comes on! using Passbook is a clearly appealing, exciting, available and beneficial experience. so much extra fun than antique paper tickets, or plastic club gambling playing cards that clog up wallets.

As Apple gives superior capability, and builders get to integrate extra fantastic alternatives, the Passbook platform will emerge as a remarkable gadget for saving playing cards, tickets, and rate improvements.

Bar Codes

To start with Apple is introducing Passbook with the mixing of second bar codes. This simple barcode facility allows the Man or woman to redeem the voucher and allows the retailer to confirm the validity of the Skip. Apple decided on second bar codes, in the vicinity of the older 1D bar codes, as there were some issues with scanners spotting 1D barcodes on a LED display screen. The Skip creator can choose to generate a 2 Bar Code in any of the most well-known formats; Aztec, PDF147 or QR Code.

close to area Communique (NFC)

No matter loads speculation, it would not appear like Apple will launch Passbook with NFC (near-location Verbal exchange) integration in spite of the fact that long time there appears to be slight doubt that this improve in hardware is on its way.

at the same time as NFC is released within the subsequent era of Apple iPhones, it’s going to provide the capacity to mix tons better with outlets present fee processing systems. NFC systems are at present being mounted at many stores (in widespread large institutions) as part of Credit card’s and Visa’s mandate on having a high quantity of NFC and EMV transactions Through using the 12 months 2014. Apple is expected to be at the front of the cue with the NFC era as quickly as its incorporated into the iOS as more of the NFC payments systems emerge as to be had at traders.

fee Integration

it is just a relay of time before Apple placed its complete weight at the back of the Passbook app to mix price card centers. in spite of the reality that, given the law and the general complexity of the charge location, we can’t see Passbook absolutely substituting present charge playing cards (Credit card and Visa), however, as a substitute combine the use of both of those services.

Apple is accurately imposing a Pockets free apps store that works with gift infrastructure, as opposed to in opposition to. Pretty some corporations have attempted to completely remodel the mobile charge space while ignoring the incredible weight and strength of the agencies they have been looking to do conflict with; namely the banks and Credit card businesses. With Passbook, Apple is sensible to maintain Those men inside thru running with them and Now not in opposition to. Passbook is ultimately a platform for innovation allowing any commercial enterprise to without problem is part of the cell bills region, whilst no longer having to heavily spend money on their own Wallet utility.

industrial corporation Possibility

Passbook

Passbook is predicted to have an instantaneous Impact on all groups concerned in payments, loyalty cards, keep playing cards, gift playing cards, ticketing (airlines, trains, and so on.), and incentive gambling playing cards. Getting prepared for Passbook now couldn’t be any more apparent for small or massive business enterprise alike. facts have proven us that all of us aligning themselves with the Apple eco-tool advantages vastly. You first-rate should bear in mind how many human beings are going to be rushing to the store for a new iPhone 5.0 and once they need to fill their empty Passbook, wherein are they going to reveal?

In a similar fashion to the app keep, Apple targets to seed hundreds of new ideas and start-ups. organizations which might be already operating to study this technology can be the first to announce and gain from this new eco-system. When you have hobbies for growing mind-blowing Pockets thoughts, then Passbook is a great platform for your creativity. corporations do not have to overly put money into a standalone utility or try and treatment all the interface challenges that Apple has labored out for them.

Apple has long status records of shifting the route of a corporations industrial organization plans, even the most successful ones. Passbook has the potential to make dozens of products except the factor or redundant within the near future.

some critics have counseled that Passbook is only a primary Pockets application and No longer a required addition to the iOS. And it appears These humans are ignoring the right Possibility. data will show that the advent of Passbook all components of cellular bills, ticketing, and discounts will Alternate all the time. Time to get on board.

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Read All Barcodes from TIFF & New Architecture of Barcodes Recognition Filters using Java

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.BarCode for Java 18.10. This new version of API gives more power to the Barcode generation API. This new release has introduced new architecture of Barcode recognition filters, implemented UpcaGs1Code128Coupon for new Barcode generation API and includes implementation to read all Barcodes from TIFF images. This release has also deprecated BarCodeBuilder. This release includes several improvements in term of bug fixes. such as DPI settings with rotation issue, Databars generation issue from GS1 string, ITF14 Barcode GS1 Verification Process failure issue, DataMatrix codes recognizing issue from the JPG image, Correction of text part in ENA13 when change resolution and Detection of all available Barcodes from PDF. Salient features of this new Barcode generation includes

Investigate new architecture of barcodes recognition filters.

Implement UpcaGs1Code128Coupon for new barcode generation API

Not able to read all barcodes from TIFF images

Not able to read the barcode

Deprecate BarCodeBuilder

DPI settings works incorrectly with rotation

Databars are generated incorrectly from GS1 string

ITF14 barcode fails GS1 Verification Process

Can't recognize DataMatrix codes from the JPG image

Text part isn't correct in ENA13 when change resolution

Aspose.BarCode is detecting only 1 out of 3 barcodes from PDF

 Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.BarCode for Java documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.BarCode for performing different tasks like the followings.

How to Read Barcode from PDF Documents

Units based BarCode Generation

Overview: Aspose.BarCode for Java

Aspose.BarCode is a Java based visual component for generation & recognition of 1D & 2D barcodes to support Java, web applications and J2ME platform. It supports 29+ barcode symbologies like MSI, QR, OneCode, Australia Post, Aztec, Code128, Code11, EAN128, Codabar, Postnet, USPS and also supports image output in GIF, PNG, BMP & JPG formats. Other features include barcode size & color settings, rotation angle & caption. You can render barcodes to images, printers, HTTP servlet response & graphical objects too.

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New Architecture of Barcodes Recognition Filters & Barcode Reading from TIFF in JasperReports

What’s new in this release?

The new version of Aspose.BarCode for JasperReports 18.10 has added some important new features and fixed the issues in the API. This release has been developed based on Aspose.BarCode for Java 18.10. This new release has introduced new architecture of Barcode recognition filters, implemented UpcaGs1Code128Coupon for new Barcode generation API and includes implementation to read all Barcodes from TIFF images. This release has also deprecated BarCodeBuilder.  This release includes plenty of new and improved features as listed below

Investigate new architecture of barcodes recognition filters.

Implement UpcaGs1Code128Coupon for new barcode generation API

Not able to read all barcodes from TIFF images

Not able to read the barcode

Deprecate BarCodeBuilder

DPI settings works incorrectly with rotation

Databars are generated incorrectly from GS1 string

ITF14 barcode fails GS1 Verification Process

Can't recognize DataMatrix codes from the JPG image

Text part isn't correct in ENA13 when change resolution     

Aspose.BarCode is detecting only 1 out of 3 barcodes from PDF

Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.BarCode for JasperReports documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.BarCode for performing different tasks like the followings.

Manage Caption of the Barcode

Generate Barcode by Specifying Custom Image Size

Overview: Aspose.BarCode for JasperReports

Aspose.BarCode for JasperReports allows developers to display high quality barcode labels on JasperReports that can be rendered further in BMP, JPG, GIF and PNG formats. It supports more than 25 barcode symbologies including Linear or 2D barcodes and can also be integrated into existing and new JasperReport (jrxml) files. Aspose.BarCode for JasperReports is written purely in Java and a single provided JAR file can easily be deployed on the machines running JasperReports or JasperServer.

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Recognizing QR Barcode Successfully from TIFF Images & Enhanced Metered Licensing using Java

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new version of Aspose.BarCode for Java 18.2.0. The major development in this release is the enhanced process to recognize barcode from images and PDF files. This is primarily a maintenance release whereby Aspose team has resolved certain issues reported by Aspose’s valued customers.  There are some important enhancements and bug fixes part of this release, such as Enhanced the barcode text rendering process in such a way that text rendering is different on systems which have custom display scaling. In this release the enhanced process of text rendering has been incorporated, Barcode recognition process have been enhanced to detect barcodes from PDF files, Functionality to recognize barcode from images has been improved. The functionality has been upgraded in such a way that if API encounters a situation in which metadata of barcode indicates that barcode has 19 lines but actually it has 18 lines. Algorithm will act accordingly and returns correct recognition result and Rendering of barcode text with custom font size have been revised. The process has been enhanced in such a way that now barcode text with custom font size fits in the image. Below is the list of main improved features and bug fixes added in this release.

Unable to recognize the barcodes from images

License text is drawn incorrectly

Wrong codetext alignment on systems with custom scaling

Aspose.BarCode is unable to detect barcode from PDF

GetAngle() method is returning 0.0 for every barcode image supplied

Generation barcode text with custom font size is not fit the image  

 Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.BarCode for Java documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.BarCode for performing different tasks like the followings.

How to set QR version

Create QR Barcode with Logo

Overview: Aspose.BarCode for Java

Aspose.BarCode is a Java based visual component for generation & recognition of 1D & 2D barcodes to support Java, web applications and J2ME platform. It supports 29+ barcode symbologies like MSI, QR, OneCode, Australia Post, Aztec, Code128, Code11, EAN128, Codabar, Postnet, USPS and also supports image output in GIF, PNG, BMP & JPG formats. Other features include barcode size & color settings, rotation angle & caption. You can render barcodes to images, printers, HTTP servlet response & graphical objects too.

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Barcode Image Generation in Vector Format & Enhanced Saving Barcode in SVG using Java

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new version of Aspose.BarCode for Java 18.1.0. The major development in this release is the support to save the generated barcode image in Vector format. This release also supports enhanced process of drawing barcode text when font is specified in the code snippet. Enhanced working of CodeLocation property has also been incorporated in this release. Aspose.BarCode for Java now supports the functionality to generate barcode images in vector format. Two new properties Emf and Svg has been introduced in com.aspose.barcode.BarCodeImageFormat class which can be set before saving barcode image. How a developer can save barcode image in vector format is quite simple and is demonstrated in the code snippet given below. The code snippet contains comments that makes it self explanatory. There are some important enhancements also part of this release, such as Process of setting license has been improved. Now API will show correct exception message in case license subscription is expired. Set license execution time has also been improved, Inaccurate barcode text was displayed when font is specified while saving the barcode image in vector format. The enhancement has been made to draw barcode text properly, Setting big text size with com.aspose.barcode.StringAlignment.Far option, it was noticed that the barcode text disappears. Now the issue has been fixed and  working of setCodeLocation property has been improved.  Below is the list of main improved features and bug fixes added in this release.

Add support to save barcode in SVG

Add support to save barcode in any Vector image format

Support to generate and recognize EPC QR coded barcode

Improved drawing text when font is specified

Mark BarCodeReader API as obsolete

Barcode is rendered without text

Incorrectly saving a picture to a file

Property CodeLocation works incorrectly

 Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.BarCode for Java documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.BarCode for performing different tasks like the followings.

Control the Appearance of Code Text

Create QR Barcode with Logo

Overview: Aspose.BarCode for Java

Aspose.BarCode is a Java based visual component for generation & recognition of 1D & 2D barcodes to support Java, web applications and J2ME platform. It supports 29+ barcode symbologies like MSI, QR, OneCode, Australia Post, Aztec, Code128, Code11, EAN128, Codabar, Postnet, USPS and also supports image output in GIF, PNG, BMP & JPG formats. Other features include barcode size & color settings, rotation angle & caption. You can render barcodes to images, printers, HTTP servlet response & graphical objects too.

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Generate QR Coded Barcode with Version Number, Enhanced Barcode Recognition from JPEG using Java

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new version of Aspose.BarCode for Java 17.12.0.  The major development in this release is the support to generate QR coded barcode with its version number. This release also supports enhanced process of recognizing Code128 and OneD coded barcode. Enhanced speed and quality of 1D barcode recognition process functionality has also been incorporated in this release. Aspose.BarCode for Java now supports the functionality to generate QR coded barcode with its version information. This functionality allows the developers to generate QR coded barcode by setting its version number. A property BarCodeBuilder.setQRVersion has been introduced to define the said setting. How a developer can set QR version number is demonstrated in the code snippet given below. The code snippet contains comments that makes it self-explanatory. There are some important enhancements and bug fixes part of this release, such as  Process of setting license has been improved. Now API will show correct exception message in case license subscription is expired. Set license execution time has also been improved, Working of Aspose.BarCode in multi threaded environment has been enhanced, DatabarStacked barcode recognition process has been enhanced, Process of recognizing barcode from JPEG and TIFF image has been improved, Functionality to generate Datamatrix barcode has been updated and Process to recognize PDF417 and Code128 barcode has been enhanced. Performance improvements have been made to boost up the process.  Below is the list of main improved features and bug fixes added in this release.

Support to set QR version while generating barcode image

Improve speed and quality of the new 1D recognition algorithm

Setting License in Aspose.BarCode throws exception

Aspose.BarCode throw exception when used in multi-threading

Unable to recognize DatabarStacked barcode with big white space

Aspose.Barcode is unable to recognize Code128 barcode from JPG image

Unable to recognize barcode from a TIFF image

Performance issue while reading PDF417 and Code128 codes

Performance issue while reading PDF417 and Code128 codes

Performance issue while reading PDF417 and Code128 codes

Performance issue while reading PDF417 and Code128 codes

Performing BarCode recognition in C++ application is taking long time

Can't recognize code128 from a tif file

Performing Barcode recognition on a TIFF image and setting JVM 4GB is throwing exception : OutOfMemoryError

Generated Datamatrix barcode with Aspose.BarCode is not recognized by Aspose.BarCode

 Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.BarCode for Java documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.BarCode for performing different tasks like the followings.

How to set QR version

Create QR Barcode with Logo

Overview: Aspose.BarCode for Java

Aspose.BarCode is a Java based visual component for generation & recognition of 1D & 2D barcodes to support Java, web applications and J2ME platform. It supports 29+ barcode symbologies like MSI, QR, OneCode, Australia Post, Aztec, Code128, Code11, EAN128, Codabar, Postnet, USPS and also supports image output in GIF, PNG, BMP & JPG formats. Other features include barcode size & color settings, rotation angle & caption. You can render barcodes to images, printers, HTTP servlet response & graphical objects too.

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DatabarStacked Barcode Generation/Recognition & Enhanced Barcode Detection from PDF using Java

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new version of Aspose.BarCode for Java 17.10.0.  This is primarily a maintenance release whereby we have resolved certain issues incurring in API. Furthermore overall performance of the API has also been improved in this release. DatabarStacked barcode generation process has been improved. The functionality has been improved in such a way that it now produces correct text in the barcode image. Whereas recognition processes now returns correct output. DatabarExpandedStacked barcode recognition process has been enhanced. It is now producing correct output as a result of barcode recognition process. Barcode recognition process has been improved to detect barcodes from PDF files. Process for the generation and recognition DatabarLimited barcode has been improved. Process to set license using Aspose.BarCode has been enhanced. It has been enhanced in a way that users can now read the license file, store it in a string and then set the license successfully.  Below is the list of main improved features and bug fixes added in this release.

Remove Obsolete public API

Incorrect text in picture for DatabarStacked

Recognition result isn't correct for DatabarExpandedStacked

Unable to recognize DatabarStacked barcode

Index was out of range exception when try to recognize barcode from PDF

Incorrect DatabarLimited generation/recognition

Aspose.BarCode API is working strange with license file

 Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.BarCode for Java documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.BarCode for performing different tasks like the followings.

Get BarCode Recognition Quality in Percent

Loading Barcode Images

Overview: Aspose.BarCode for Java

Aspose.BarCode is a Java based visual component for generation & recognition of 1D & 2D barcodes to support Java, web applications and J2ME platform. It supports 29+ barcode symbologies like MSI, QR, OneCode, Australia Post, Aztec, Code128, Code11, EAN128, Codabar, Postnet, USPS and also supports image output in GIF, PNG, BMP & JPG formats. Other features include barcode size & color settings, rotation angle & caption. You can render barcodes to images, printers, HTTP servlet response & graphical objects too.

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Generate Databar Coded Barcode with Segments per Row using SQL Server Reporting Services

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is happy to announce the new release of Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services 17.11.0. This release also includes feature information from version 17.10.0. The major development in this release is the support to generate databar coded barcode with segments per row. Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services now enables the developers to generate databar coded barcode with segments per row. Generating segments per row for a databar is very simple and is demonstrated in the code snippet given below. The code snippet contains comments that make it self-explanatory. DatabarStacked barcode generation process has been improved. The API now produce correct text in the resultant barcode image. Rotation settings were not working properly in case when a barcode is generated and saved as an EMF image. The issue has been fixed. Now BarCodeBuilder.Rotate method is working properly and produce correct rotated barcode image. Process to generation and recognition DatabarLimited barcode has been improved. To view the complete list of new features and fixes, please visit the release notes page. This release also includes many important API and Backward Incompatible changes. Below is the list of new and improved features added in this new release

Support to define settings "segments per row"

Remove Obsolete public API

Incorrect text in picture for DatabarStacked

Rotation doesn't affected to EMF export

Incorrect DatabarLimited generation/recognition

 Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.BarCode for performing different tasks like the followings.

Managing Barcodes

How to Display BarCodes in Report Header

Overview: Aspose.Report for .NET

Aspose.BarCode for Reporting Services is a .NET solution for the rendering of barcode images in SQL Server 2000, 2005 & 2008 Reporting Services. It supports 29+ linear (1D) and 2D barcode symbologies including MacroPdf417, Australia Post, OneCode, Code128, Code39, PDF417, UPCA, Codabar, MSI and QR etc. Also render barcode images on reports in BMP, JPG, PNG and GIF formats. Other features include EAN-128 application identifiers, DPI resolution settings, barcode size and location adjustments.

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Databar Coded Barcode Generation & Enhanced Barcode Detection from BMP Images using Java

What’s new in this release?

Aspose team is pleased to announce the new version of Aspose.BarCode for Java 17.10.0.  This release includes enhanced DatabarLimited and DatabarExpandedStacked coded barcode generation process. Furthermore overall performance of the API has also been improved in this release. DatabarLimited barcode generation process has been improved. The functionality has been improved in such a way that it now allows only (01) AI and 0 or 1 symbol in main data. Generation process of DatabarExpandedStacked has been improved. Aspose.BarCode generator now process the the last row as special case. Pharmacode barcode recognition process has been enhanced. It is now working with property Aspose.BarCode.Recognition.AllSupportedTypes. Whereas generation process now calculates correct bar height. Barcode recognition process have been improved to detect barcodes from BMP format image.  MacroPdf417 barcode recognition process has been improved..  Below is the list of main improved features and bug fixes added in this release.

Generates incorrect barcode for DatabarLimited

Generation DatabarExpandedStacked isn't correct

Can't recognize Pharmacode with AllSupportedTypes

Can't recognize second barcode (DatabarExpandedStacked)

Aspose.Barcodes 17.06 BarCodeReader does not recognize a barcode types on .gif image format

Aspose.BarCode is unable to detect barcode in BMP format image whereas the same is working if in JPEG format image

Generates incorrect barcode for UPCE

Incorrect default height of Pharmacode

Incorrect recognition type for MacroPdf417 barcode

 Newly added documentation pages and articles

Some new tips and articles have now been added into Aspose.BarCode for Java documentation that may guide users briefly how to use Aspose.BarCode for performing different tasks like the followings.

Generate Multiple Barcodes on a Single Image

Generating GS1-128 AI 8102 Coupon Extended Barcode

Overview: Aspose.BarCode for Java

Aspose.BarCode is a Java based visual component for generation & recognition of 1D & 2D barcodes to support Java, web applications and J2ME platform. It supports 29+ barcode symbologies like MSI, QR, OneCode, Australia Post, Aztec, Code128, Code11, EAN128, Codabar, Postnet, USPS and also supports image output in GIF, PNG, BMP & JPG formats. Other features include barcode size & color settings, rotation angle & caption. You can render barcodes to images, printers, HTTP servlet response & graphical objects too.

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