PDF417 is a 2D barcode that is able to encode more than 1000 alphanumeric characters.

If you are using Crystal Reports 9 or above, please open BCSPDF417.rpt from
C:\Program Files\Barcodesoft\PDF417Font folder.

Crystal Reports has a string length limitation of 255 characters for formula field.
Therefore we have to split PDF417 codewords into seperate parts, and concatenate them in a Text Object before apply font BCSPDF417.

Create formula field look like this as shown below





Create more formula fields as listed below if you have lots of data to encode.

BCSPDF417Encode({Test.Data}, '1')
BCSPDF417Encode({Test.Data}, '2')
BCSPDF417Encode({Test.Data}, '3')