Salut, Simple Solution: Use a barcode font. Code39 maps directly to chars 0-9, A-Z, %,$,/,-,+ and maybe some others...
A quick search of google should find you some freebees for testing. Check faq and examples for font embedding. Other barcode formats require preprocessing. Dominique Duphil wrote: > > Another way, is to use a barcode font, you could find a GPL one at > http://www.tdb.uu.se/~jan/barfonts > > -----Message d'origine----- > De : Jeremias Maerki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Envoye : lundi 28 juillet 2003 15:04 > A : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Objet : Re: bar codes > > Look at Krysalis Barcode (http://www.krysalis.org/barcode, Apache-style > license). It provides, among other things, a Xalan-Extension that > creates barcodes in SVG which can easily be rendered by FOP. > > A FOP extension that can render directly to PDF and PostScript is on its > way, but not quite ready yet. At the moment the detour over SVG/Batik is > still necessary. > > On 28.07.2003 14:51:10 MARTIN Franck wrote: > > I'd like to insert some bar codes to my pdf documents. i found stylesheets > on the web which could do the job for me. They are distributed by XEP and > seem to work fine with that FO processor. I tested them with FOP 0.20.4 and > 0.20.5 but it does not look as nice as with XEP. Actually it does not look > correct. The bars are so thick that they merge. > > > > Has anyone had the same problem and found any solution to that problem? > > > > PS: i did not use svg to draw the bars but fo > > Jeremias Maerki > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
