Re: [Barcode4j-users] special (!) fop extension

[Jeremias M. <dev...@gr...>]

Daniel,

I've uploaded my own FOP sources with the mentioned modifications at the
following URL:
http://www.jeremias-maerki.ch/download/fop/xml-fop-special-src-2004-10-12.zip

As noted in [1] I will NOT provide any support for this. Use at your own
risk (especially my FOP sources). I can also not tell what all my
changes in the FOP sources were but at least there are some improvements
in the SVG support. Otherwise, the sources more or less correspond to
the FOP 0.20.5 release.

[1] http://barcode4j.krysalis.org/fop-ext.html#The+special+FOP+extension+%28for+experienced+developers+only%29

As noted on the above page, the functionality offered by the special FOP
extension will be in the next official FOP release to be expected this
year. I've already started implementing it.

To make this work, you'll have to put a "build-local.properties" text
file into the directory where you unpacked Barcode4J. This file must
contain the following line:

fop-post-0.20.5.home=C:/Dev/FOP/branch/xml-fop

(obviously you need to adjust the path for your system)

When you've done that rebuild Barcode4J and you should get a new JAR
called barcode4j-fop-ext-post-0.20.5.jar in the build directory. When
using the FOP extension with FOP you should automatically get the
natively rendered barcodes in PDF and PostScript. Be aware that you
don't get the human-readable part with PDF. See
examples/xsl-fo/fop-extension-demo.fo for the use of the render-mode
attribute with which you can force the extension to use SVG for painting
the barcode just like the normal FOP extension does.

Feedback is appreciated.

Good luck!

On 15.07.2005 09:14:17 Daniel Vesely wrote:
> I would like to start (or at least to test) FOP extension of barcode4j.
> In the documentation there is a note to contact this list to receive
> some enhancements. Any help would be appreciated. Any examples, links?


Jeremias Maerki