The problem with that approach is that the image is static, while I want a field whose value can be changed (based on the value of another field).
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 4:30 PM PDF Developer <pdf...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: > Hello Gilad, > > I suppose you could define a form button and assign the appearance to be > an image file, generated perhaps from Barcode4J. I use that trick in > Acrobat Pro to add content to PDFs, content I have scanned to PDF. > > I went down a different route and added barcodes as XObjects. Using the > Okapi library, I wrote a very simple (no text) PDF Renderer based on their > SVG one and took the output from that renderer and wrapped it as an XObject. > PDFDev > > On Tuesday, February 25, 2020, 3:09:57 PM GMT, Gilad Denneboom < > gilad.denneb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Any ideas? I saw an old post of yours where you write that maybe this can > be done with Barcode4J, but I think that would just generate the barcode as > an image, not as a field. > > On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 11:20 PM Gilad Denneboom < > gilad.denneb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > DataMatrix > > > > On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 3:41 PM Maruan Sahyoun <sahy...@fileaffairs.de> > > wrote: > > > >> Hi Gilad, > >> > >> what type of barcode would you like to generate? > >> > >> BR > >> Maruan > >> > >> > Hi all, > >> > > >> > Does anyone have any pointers on how to create a Barcode field using > >> PDFBox? > >> > As far as I can see it's a text field, but with some special > properties, > >> > such as the PaperMetaData (PMD) object, and a calculation script with > >> > specific JS code for copying the value from other fields. > >> > I can handle the latter, but the former seems quite difficult to > >> implement, > >> > so any help would be appreciated. > >> > > >> > Thanks in advance, > >> > Gilad > >> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org > >> > >> >
