If your font is a barcode and is embedded there's no reason it shouldn't work.
Please post the PDF.
Paulo
> -----Original Message-----
> From: keesha [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 2:21 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [iText-questions] On Barcodes and
> stamp.setFormFlattening(false) and BaseFont
>
> 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.
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