Barcode 3 of 9

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postedon September 10, 2013at 9:10 AM

Hi guys
I've seen that in pdfoutput editor there isn't the 3 of 9 Barcode: is there the possiblity to have this barcode inside Appway? Is there a workaround to print such a barcode?

Thanks in advance

Urs

repliedon September 16, 2013at 8:13 AM

Currently we don't have this barcode component available. And sadly, the component system in PDF Outputs is not yet there where we want to have it: We cannot yet add components via an extension.
But you can apply a workaround if this component is needed:

Create a new extension
Include a library which renders an image with your desired barcode style (beware of licensing of that library!)
Provide a new function by this extension which will accept a String as parameter (your message to print as barcode) and will return a file path of the rendered image (should be in the <data home>/work/tmp/<some directory>/<some unique id>.png)
On your PDF Output add an Image component
In the Expression field put in your new function. If the return value points to a file location, it will render the found image on your PDF
To be very clean, make sure the rendered image will be deleted after rendering. On the other hand: If you rendered it into <data home>/work/tmp it will automatically be removed after something more than 24h

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