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Does EO.PDF support barcodes? A competitor of EO has Barcode objects that make it really simple to put barcodes into a pdf document. I am currently using version 4.0.41 and I can't find any barcode objects via intellisense. How does EO.PDF handle barcodes?
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Hi,
No. We do not have built-in barcode feature. However creating barcode is fairly simple in PDF and you do not need it to be an integrated part of the PDF product. You can implement barcode with our PDF library in one of the following two ways:
1. Use a barcode font. This way you simply use the same code to render text to render your barcode. There are many free barcode fonts online;
2. Use a barcode image generator to generate the barcode as an image, then render that image to PDF. Again there are various open source implementation of the barcode to image feature;
As you can see, no additional feature is needed from the PDF library. From the PDF library point of view, you just render your barcode either as text or image. This allows you to use whatever barcode implementation you like and not limited to the built-in barcode implementation. It is our opinion that these two are really completely different features and shouldn't be tied up together.
Thanks!
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