Yes, that's correct. The end user is going to use Acrobat. I'm aware that this will not work in Reader without some special rights applied to the file, but that is not currently a concern.
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 5:39 PM Maruan Sahyoun <sahy...@fileaffairs.de> wrote: > Hi Gilad, > > so if I understand you correctly you are creating a PDF form with PDFBox, > maybe prefill it and later on a user is filling out > the form interactively. Now some of the fields should contain a dynamic > barcode with the value being calculated from some other > fields values. Is that correct? What's the end users application for > filling out the PDF? > > BR > Maruan > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org > >
