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by Member 36949826

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Hello:
Does anyone have knowledge of a control which will allow me to insert barcodes into pdf files? must be compatible with adobe.

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by tony hopkinson

Generating BarCodes is one thing

Interactive Barcode fields is another. (I'm not actually aware of any of these.

Inserting them into a PDF, well any PDF Creator / amender will do that,as they simply go in as an image.

I've used both iTextSharp and AmyUni's PDFCreatorX to do this. BarCode generation I wrote myself, before I discovered iTextSharp, which has a comprehensive suite of them. Including the one I'd written :p

by Member 36949826

Thanks for the entry. I am looking for a control which will insert the barcodes not as an image but a "live" barcode. I will check out the software stated above. any additional information is greatly appreciated. :)

by Member 36949826

We can use a control which generates the barcode as an image but we want to delete the middle tasks of it saving the image file.

We have web forms in which we want the barcode generated and inserted into the form without having to save the barcode file.
Thanks, ~AR

by older mycroft

Then the deficiency of not producing a PDF image, is inherent in your program.

If you think about it slightly deeper, you have to have some kind of output, otherwise you'd have nothing to work from.

What would happen if you were able to output directly to PDF, but then required a standard barcode file??

Chicken & Egg. ;)

by tony hopkinson

Or even straight winforms. I have a component which will draw a barcode. I either let it generate an image and paint it on the form or copy the generated image to another undisplayed 'canvas'. The latter means there is an 'image file' it's just embedded in the document.

Seeing as trying to do this on a web page dynaically would be messy to say the least, my first thought, would be to take a request for the webform draw on the barcodes server side and then pass the result back.

The problem there would be if the bar codes were interactive, ie generated based on data entry into the form on which you can see them. That would mean you'd have to do something client side by drawing lines in a suitable area of the page dynamically for instance.

by Member 36949826

The PDF form alrealy exists. We are creating a fillable form in pdf format which we wish to insert a standard 1-D barcode. Thank you for your response. Any additional information will be helpful also.~AR

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