Thanks for your time and for the tips, Maruan. That was my intention, but I couldn't find how to set the COSDictionary value directly... In PDFBox 1.x this was possible, I believe, but I'm not seeing it in the 2.x version.
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 7:02 PM Maruan Sahyoun <sahy...@fileaffairs.de> wrote: > What I would suggest is to create a barcode with the settings you would > like to see applied in Adobe Acrobat and recreate that > in PDFBox. There is no high level API in PDFBox for that so you need to > work with the field and the widget annotation > COSDirectory directly. > > You can start by creating a text field in PDFBox (as a barcode field is a > subtype of that) and use getCOSObject() on the PD > model field and widget object. > > As for the calculation you need to inject the correct JS code (again I'd > do some prototyping in Acrobat) into the action > dictionaries. > > From your response I get that you are aware that this will only work in > Adobe Acrobat. To use it with Adobe Reader you need to > ensure that the correct usage rights have been applied to the PDF before > filling. > > There is a reason that you are looking to create the PDF form with PDFBox > right? > > I've not done that before but feel free to ask further questions. My time > is very limited these days but I'll try to help you as > much as possible. Might also serve as a starter for an example. > > BR > Maruan > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > -- > Maruan Sahyoun > > FileAffairs GmbH > Josef-Schappe-Straße 21 > 40882 Ratingen > > Tel: +49 (2102) 89497 88 > Fax: +49 (2102) 89497 91 > sahy...@fileaffairs.de > www.fileaffairs.de > > Geschäftsführer: Maruan Sahyoun > Handelsregister: AG Düsseldorf, HRB 53837 > UST.-ID: DE248275827 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org > >
