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iText in Action 2nd Edition

The Barcodes example is part of the book iText in Action (ISBN 9781935182610).
It's a small standalone application. You can use this example for inspiration, but please buy the book if there's something you don't understand about the example. Read Chapter 10 for more info.

Chapter 10: Brightening up your PDF with color and images

If you want this example to work, you need the following jars: iText.jar

part3.chapter10.Barcodes

If you compile and execute this example, you'll get the following result:
You can download the full source code of Barcodes, or read it here:
 
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/*
 * This class is part of the book "iText in Action - 2nd Edition"
 * written by Bruno Lowagie (ISBN: 9781935182610)
 * For more info, go to: http://itextpdf.com/examples/
 * This example only works with the AGPL version of iText.
 */
 
package part3.chapter10;
 
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
 
import com.itextpdf.text.BaseColor;
import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.itextpdf.text.Element;
import com.itextpdf.text.Image;
import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph;
import com.itextpdf.text.Rectangle;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.Barcode;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.Barcode128;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.Barcode39;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.BarcodeCodabar;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.BarcodeDatamatrix;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.BarcodeEAN;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.BarcodeEANSUPP;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.BarcodeInter25;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.BarcodePDF417;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.BarcodePostnet;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.BarcodeQRCode;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfContentByte;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
 
public class Barcodes {
 
    /** The resulting PDF. */
    private static final String RESULT = "results/part3/chapter10/barcodes.pdf";
 
    /**
     * Generates a PDF file with different types of barcodes.
     * 
     * @param args
     *            no arguments needed here
     * @throws DocumentException
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException,
            DocumentException {
        new Barcodes().createPdf(RESULT);
    }
 
    /**
     * Creates a PDF document.
     * @param filename the path to the new PDF document
     * @throws    DocumentException 
     * @throws    IOException
     */
    public void createPdf(String filename) throws IOException, DocumentException {
        // step 1
        Document document = new Document(new Rectangle(340, 842));
        // step 2
        PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(filename));
        // step 3
        document.open();
        // step 4
        PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent();
 
        // EAN 13
        document.add(new Paragraph("Barcode EAN.UCC-13"));
        BarcodeEAN codeEAN = new BarcodeEAN();
        codeEAN.setCode("4512345678906");
        document.add(new Paragraph("default:"));
        document.add(codeEAN.createImageWithBarcode(cb, null, null));
        codeEAN.setGuardBars(false);
        document.add(new Paragraph("without guard bars:"));
        document.add(codeEAN.createImageWithBarcode(cb, null, null));
        codeEAN.setBaseline(-1f);
        codeEAN.setGuardBars(true);
        document.add(new Paragraph("text above:"));
        document.add(codeEAN.createImageWithBarcode(cb, null, null));
        codeEAN.setBaseline(codeEAN.getSize());
 
        // UPC A
        document.add(new Paragraph("Barcode UCC-12 (UPC-A)"));
        codeEAN.setCodeType(Barcode.UPCA);
        codeEAN.setCode("785342304749");
        document.add(codeEAN.createImageWithBarcode(cb, null, null));
 
        // EAN 8
        document.add(new Paragraph("Barcode EAN.UCC-8"));
        codeEAN.setCodeType(Barcode.EAN8);
        codeEAN.setBarHeight(codeEAN.getSize() * 1.5f);
        codeEAN.setCode("34569870");
        document.add(codeEAN.createImageWithBarcode(cb, null, null));
 
        // UPC E
        document.add(new Paragraph("Barcode UPC-E"));
        codeEAN.setCodeType(Barcode.UPCE);
        codeEAN.setCode("03456781");
        document.add(codeEAN.createImageWithBarcode(cb, null, null));
        codeEAN.setBarHeight(codeEAN.getSize() * 3f);
 
        // EANSUPP
        document.add(new Paragraph("Bookland"));
        document.add(new Paragraph("ISBN 0-321-30474-8"));
        codeEAN.setCodeType(Barcode.EAN13);
        codeEAN.setCode("9781935182610");
        BarcodeEAN codeSUPP = new BarcodeEAN();
        codeSUPP.setCodeType(Barcode.SUPP5);
        codeSUPP.setCode("55999");
        codeSUPP.setBaseline(-2);
        BarcodeEANSUPP eanSupp = new BarcodeEANSUPP(codeEAN, codeSUPP);
        document.add(eanSupp.createImageWithBarcode(cb, null, BaseColor.BLUE));
 
        // CODE 128
        document.add(new Paragraph("Barcode 128"));
        Barcode128 code128 = new Barcode128();
        code128.setCode("0123456789 hello");
        document.add(code128.createImageWithBarcode(cb, null, null));
        code128.setCode("0123456789\uffffMy Raw Barcode (0 - 9)");
        code128.setCodeType(Barcode.CODE128_RAW);
        document.add(code128.createImageWithBarcode(cb, null, null));
 
        // Data for the barcode :
        String code402 = "24132399420058289";
        String code90 = "3700000050";
        String code421 = "422356";
        StringBuffer data = new StringBuffer(code402);
        data.append(Barcode128.FNC1);
        data.append(code90);
        data.append(Barcode128.FNC1);
        data.append(code421);
        Barcode128 shipBarCode = new Barcode128();
        shipBarCode.setX(0.75f);
        shipBarCode.setN(1.5f);
        shipBarCode.setSize(10f);
        shipBarCode.setTextAlignment(Element.ALIGN_CENTER);
        shipBarCode.setBaseline(10f);
        shipBarCode.setBarHeight(50f);
        shipBarCode.setCode(data.toString());
        document.add(shipBarCode.createImageWithBarcode(cb, BaseColor.BLACK,
                BaseColor.BLUE));
 
        // it is composed of 3 blocks whith AI 01, 3101 and 10
        Barcode128 uccEan128 = new Barcode128();
        uccEan128.setCodeType(Barcode.CODE128_UCC);
        uccEan128.setCode("(01)00000090311314(10)ABC123(15)060916");
        document.add(uccEan128.createImageWithBarcode(cb, BaseColor.BLUE,
                BaseColor.BLACK));
        uccEan128.setCode("0191234567890121310100035510ABC123");
        document.add(uccEan128.createImageWithBarcode(cb, BaseColor.BLUE,
                BaseColor.RED));
        uccEan128.setCode("(01)28880123456788");
        document.add(uccEan128.createImageWithBarcode(cb, BaseColor.BLUE,
                BaseColor.BLACK));
 
        // INTER25
        document.add(new Paragraph("Barcode Interleaved 2 of 5"));
        BarcodeInter25 code25 = new BarcodeInter25();
        code25.setGenerateChecksum(true);
        code25.setCode("41-1200076041-001");
        document.add(code25.createImageWithBarcode(cb, null, null));
        code25.setCode("411200076041001");
        document.add(code25.createImageWithBarcode(cb, null, null));
        code25.setCode("0611012345678");
        code25.setChecksumText(true);
        document.add(code25.createImageWithBarcode(cb, null, null));
 
        // POSTNET
        document.add(new Paragraph("Barcode Postnet"));
        BarcodePostnet codePost = new BarcodePostnet();
        document.add(new Paragraph("ZIP"));
        codePost.setCode("01234");
        document.add(codePost.createImageWithBarcode(cb, null, null));
        document.add(new Paragraph("ZIP+4"));
        codePost.setCode("012345678");
        document.add(codePost.createImageWithBarcode(cb, null, null));
        document.add(new Paragraph("ZIP+4 and dp"));
        codePost.setCode("01234567890");
        document.add(codePost.createImageWithBarcode(cb, null, null));
 
        document.add(new Paragraph("Barcode Planet"));
        BarcodePostnet codePlanet = new BarcodePostnet();
        codePlanet.setCode("01234567890");
        codePlanet.setCodeType(Barcode.PLANET);
        document.add(codePlanet.createImageWithBarcode(cb, null, null));
 
        // CODE 39
        document.add(new Paragraph("Barcode 3 of 9"));
        Barcode39 code39 = new Barcode39();
        code39.setCode("ITEXT IN ACTION");
        document.add(code39.createImageWithBarcode(cb, null, null));
 
        document.add(new Paragraph("Barcode 3 of 9 extended"));
        Barcode39 code39ext = new Barcode39();
        code39ext.setCode("iText in Action");
        code39ext.setStartStopText(false);
        code39ext.setExtended(true);
        document.add(code39ext.createImageWithBarcode(cb, null, null));
 
        // CODABAR
        document.add(new Paragraph("Codabar"));
        BarcodeCodabar codabar = new BarcodeCodabar();
        codabar.setCode("A123A");
        codabar.setStartStopText(true);
        document.add(codabar.createImageWithBarcode(cb, null, null));
 
        // PDF417
        document.add(new Paragraph("Barcode PDF417"));
        BarcodePDF417 pdf417 = new BarcodePDF417();
        String text = "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long "
            + "precisely --having little or no money in my purse, and nothing "
            + "particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about "
            + "a little and see the watery part of the world.";
        pdf417.setText(text);
        Image img = pdf417.getImage();
        img.scalePercent(50, 50 * pdf417.getYHeight());
        document.add(img);
 
        document.add(new Paragraph("Barcode Datamatrix"));
        BarcodeDatamatrix datamatrix = new BarcodeDatamatrix();
        datamatrix.generate(text);
        img = datamatrix.createImage();
        document.add(img);
 
        document.add(new Paragraph("Barcode QRCode"));
        BarcodeQRCode qrcode = new BarcodeQRCode("Moby Dick by Herman Melville", 1, 1, null);
        img = qrcode.getImage();
        document.add(img);
 
        // step 5
        document.close();
    }
}