Hi List,
We have a program called PDFFileCreator.java that generates dynamic PDF
files.
The way we're doing it right now is we design a source PDF (let's call
it blank_order.pdf) using adobe acrobat 5.
Upon running the PDFFileCreator.java it would then connect to the
database, retrieves the values and displays those values in our PDF
using our source PDF (blank_order.pdf) which would give us the filled up
pdf (let's call it filled_order.pdf). We view our filled_order.pdf using
Acrobat 5 or Adobe Reader 9. Eveything works well until we had a
requirement to display the barcodes.
here's a snippet of our current codes:
//=======================================================
BaseFont bf = BaseFont.createFont(BaseFont.COURIER , BaseFont.CP1252,
BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader("blank_order.pdf");
PdfStamper stamp = new PdfStamper(reader, new
FileOutputStream("filled_order.pdf"));
AcroFields form1 = stamp.getAcroFields();
//we loop through a resultset and this is what happens on each columns
form1.setFieldProperty ("NAME", "textfont", bf, null);
form1.regenerateField("NAME");
form1.setField("NAME", "Uncle Sam");
form1.setFieldProperty ("BARCODE", "textfont", bf, null);//is there
Basefont in itext for barcodes?
form1.regenerateField("BARCODE");
form1.setField("BARCODE", "29b5");
//end
stamp.setFormFlattening(false);
stamp.close();
//=======================================================
i have read in this forum to set this:
stamp.setFormFlattening(false);
But is that the only thing i have to do? because i tried the above but
what gets displayed is still the "29b5" and not the barcode equivalent.
Also, i'm curious if there's a Basefont for barcodes? I'm guessing the
reason why the form1.setField("BARCODE", "29b5"); is displaying as
"29b5" is because the Basefont is set to courier and not to a
barcode-specific font. I don't know, I'm really just guessing.
Now, I also have tried this:
Rectangle pagesize = new Rectangle(612, 792);
pagesize.setBackgroundColor(new Color(0x64, 0x95, 0xed));
Document document = new Document(pagesize);
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new
FileOutputStream("BarcodePDF.pdf"));
document.open();
PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent();
BarcodeEAN codeEAN = new BarcodeEAN();
codeEAN.setCode("0000020099002");
Paragraph p = new Paragraph();
p.add(new Chunk(codeEAN.createImageWithBarcode(cb, null, null),
0, -5));
codeEAN.setGuardBars(true);
p.setLeading(codeEAN.getBarcodeSize().height());
document.add(p);
document.close();
This works excellent but im just wondering if there's a way i could
write the "p" in the filled_order.pdf along with all my other database
values instead of creating a new document and calling the
document.add(p);
Thanks in advance for enlightening me.
- k
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