I'd like to be able to generate barcodes from Ruby (to a PDF document).
What is the best way to do this?
Does it suffice to just get some barcode fonts, and use those, or do I
need special libs? Any help appreciated.
I suggest to:
- install GNU barcode from
http://www.gnu.org/software/barcode/barcode.html
- use Latex to import postscript files generated by GNU barcode
- use ruby to glue those tools
have fun,
Oliver
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I'd like to be able to generate barcodes from Ruby (to a PDF document).
What is the best way to do this?Does it suffice to just get some barcode fonts, and use those, or do I
need special libs? Any help appreciated.
listrecv@gmail.com wrote:
I'd like to be able to generate barcodes from Ruby (to a PDF document).
What is the best way to do this?Does it suffice to just get some barcode fonts, and use those, or do I
need special libs? Any help appreciated.
I think you can embed some font (I am not sure what is name of font) to PDF and write directly in it.
best regards,
Bojan
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Bojan Mihelac
Informatika Mihelac, Bojan Mihelac s.p. | www.informatikamihelac.com
-> tools, scripts, tricks from our code lab: http://source.mihelac.org
Probably not what you are looking for, but I wrote a barcode
(DataMatrix) generation thingy in JavaScript.
-- G.
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I'd like to be able to generate barcodes from Ruby (to a PDF document).
What is the best way to do this?Does it suffice to just get some barcode fonts, and use those, or do I
need special libs? Any help appreciated.
I hope to be able to add this to PDF::Writer in the future. Don't hold
your breath for it; I'm on vacation and *way* behind on PDF::Writer
development, but note that it is planned for the future inasmuch as I
can make it happen.
-austin
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I'd like to be able to generate barcodes from Ruby (to a PDF document).
What is the best way to do this?Does it suffice to just get some barcode fonts, and use those, or do I
need special libs? Any help appreciated.
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* austin@zieglers.ca
You might as well try to use GrailTeX (
http://tipogral.hu/index.rbx/site/projects/grailtex
), a new, compact, web-centric TeX distribution with support for
package management (for the TeX/CTAN packages included). It comes with
everything you need for barcode generation, as the online demo on the
referred page shows.
Regards,
Csaba
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On 2006-07-17, OliverMarchand <oliver.marchand@gmail.com> wrote:
- install GNU barcode from
http://www.gnu.org/software/barcode/barcode.html
- use Latex to import postscript files generated by GNU barcode
- use ruby to glue those tools
Bojan Mihelac wrote:
I think you can embed some font (I am not sure what is name of font) to
PDF and write directly in it.
That would certainly be the easiest - easier than converting from
PostScript. I could do the whole thing as a PDF form.
Does anyone know more about this?
Also, does anyone know if there are any libs with Ruby bindings which
can apply a FDF/XFDF to a PDF? (I don't think Pdf::Writer can - am I
correct?)
Austin Ziegler wrote:
I hope to be able to add this to PDF::Writer in the future. Don't hold
your breath for it; I'm on vacation and *way* behind on PDF::Writer
development, but note that it is planned for the future inasmuch as I
can make it happen.
Great, I really appreciate that.
Csaba Henk <csaba@phony_for_avoiding_spam.org> writes:
- install GNU barcode from
http://www.gnu.org/software/barcode/barcode.html
- use Latex to import postscript files generated by GNU barcode
- use ruby to glue those toolsYou might as well try to use GrailTeX (
http://tipogral.hu/index.rbx/site/projects/grailtex
), a new, compact, web-centric TeX distribution with support for
package management (for the TeX/CTAN packages included). It comes with
everything you need for barcode generation, as the online demo on the
referred page shows.
Awesome stuff, thanks a lot!
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On 2006-07-17, OliverMarchand <oliver.marchand@gmail.com> wrote:
Regards,
Csaba
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listrecv@gmail.com wrote:
Bojan Mihelac wrote:
I think you can embed some font (I am not sure what is name of font) to
PDF and write directly in it.That would certainly be the easiest - easier than converting from
PostScript. I could do the whole thing as a PDF form.Does anyone know more about this?
Also, does anyone know if there are any libs with Ruby bindings which
can apply a FDF/XFDF to a PDF? (I don't think Pdf::Writer can - am I
correct?)
I see there are plenty of barcode Code 39 true type fonts available and some are free as well a litle googling would do.
I had some troubles embeding fonts with Pdf::Writer so please write if you get it working with Pdf::Writer.
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Bojan Mihelac
Informatika Mihelac, Bojan Mihelac s.p. | www.informatikamihelac.com
-> tools, scripts, tricks from our code lab: http://source.mihelac.org
Right now we're using the method described here ->
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoGeneratePDFs under the
heading PDF Form Fill. It calls pdftk externally, it is not a ruby
binding or anything. Don't be put off by this being a Rails link, the
technique works just fine without Rails installed.
Rob Kaufman
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On 7/17/06, listrecv@gmail.com <listrecv@gmail.com> wrote:
Bojan Mihelac wrote:
> I think you can embed some font (I am not sure what is name of font) to
> PDF and write directly in it.That would certainly be the easiest - easier than converting from
PostScript. I could do the whole thing as a PDF form.Does anyone know more about this?
Also, does anyone know if there are any libs with Ruby bindings which
can apply a FDF/XFDF to a PDF? (I don't think Pdf::Writer can - am I
correct?)
Hi to All,
i'm italian and I must generate a barcode into a PDF file.
I'm using
O.S: Windows XP Professional
Ruby: 1.8.5
Rails: 1.2.1
... I found a ruby gem (barcode-0.2.gem) to do this, at least I think
:)).
Is it the right way to do it?
Where can I find some documentation?
Paolo
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Austin Ziegler wrote:
I hope to be able to add this to PDF::Writer in the future. Don't hold
your breath for it; I'm on vacation and *way* behind on PDF::Writer
development, but note that it is planned for the future inasmuch as I
can make it happen.Great, I really appreciate that.
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Rob Kaufman wrote:
Right now we're using the method described here ->
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoGeneratePDFs under the
heading PDF Form Fill. It calls pdftk externally, it is not a ruby
binding or anything. Don't be put off by this being a Rails link, the
technique works just fine without Rails installed.
Rob,
I took a look at that. Looks good, except that FDF generator looks
very hackish. Is there a cleaner way of doing this, perhaps using
XFDF?
(Also, how did you generate the PDF initially - just using a word
processor, and adding form fields in Acrobat?)
I agree with you that the create_fdf method is kind of a "magic" hack,
but it allows you to very simply take hash data to fill in a form.
I'll be honest, though I understand how it works, I didn't create this
method or do much to change it. Using pdftk makes a lot of since to
me, since leveraging a separate tool increases the debugging base.
We're using Acrobat to create our form template.
Rob Kaufman
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On 7/17/06, listrecv@gmail.com <listrecv@gmail.com> wrote:
Rob Kaufman wrote:
> Right now we're using the method described here ->
> http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoGeneratePDFs under the
> heading PDF Form Fill. It calls pdftk externally, it is not a ruby
> binding or anything. Don't be put off by this being a Rails link, the
> technique works just fine without Rails installed.Rob,
I took a look at that. Looks good, except that FDF generator looks
very hackish. Is there a cleaner way of doing this, perhaps using
XFDF?(Also, how did you generate the PDF initially - just using a word
processor, and adding form fields in Acrobat?)