IReport and Barcode on PDF Output

[Steve Dyke]

Can someone help me on the issue of putting a barcode on a PDF output. I cannot find a PDF font in the field properties to use for barcode.

[Vinod K Singh]

Use a barcode library e.g. Barbecue to generate the barcode and embed them as image in the report then export the report to PDF.

[Ulf Dittmer]

The iText library also supports barcodes.

[Steve Dyke]

Originally posted by Ulf Dittmer:
The iText library also supports barcodes.

Can you give me some direction on how to use this. Currently I generate my report to PDF using JasperReports. However, I cannot figure out how to change a text field to display as a barcode.

[Ulf Dittmer]

A number of code examples are part of the iText tutorial: http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/tutorial/objects/images/tiff/index.php

[Steve Dyke]

Originally posted by Ulf Dittmer:
A number of code examples are part of the iText tutorial: http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/tutorial/objects/images/tiff/index.php

I have looked at the examples but don't understand how to tie the iText to the servlet that I use to generate the JasperReport. Is the idea to create a barcode image of the desired text then send that as a prameter?
[ October 08, 2008: Message edited by: Steve Dyke ]

[Ulf Dittmer]

Ah, I skipped over the JasperReports part. This page and especially this piece of code make it sound as if barcodes are actually part of Jasper already (or can be added easily).
[ October 08, 2008: Message edited by: Ulf Dittmer ]

[Steve Dyke]

Do you have similar examples using the Barbecue.jar since it is included with JasperReports? I have tried several combinations of syntax but can not figure out the code for the Image Expression

[Ulf Dittmer]

No, I really don't know the first thing about the Barbecue library, and not much more about JasperReport.

[Steve Dyke]

Thank you for all your responses. In a lot of this Java jungle I am clueless.