Hi,

> Maruan Sahyoun <sahy...@fileaffairs.de> hat am 27. März 2015 um 09:02
> geschrieben:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> to enhance the coverage of acroforms wrt to the PDF specification we'd need to
> support barcode fields. A lib we could use as a base is Barcode4J [1] which is
> ASL licensed. As it has features and dependencies we don't need/want I'd think
> we'd need to rip it apart and reuse what's needed and add what's missing.
> 
> The other option is adding that as a dependency and add a custom Canvas
> implementation but this means that we'd also need Avalon … - which would add a
> lot to PDFBox. So I'd tend towards taking the code as a base.
> 
> How could we proceed?
Barcode4J contains a lot of ancient software. IMHO it would be a good idea to
strip it down to the needed parts to avoid some old stuff if possible. Or we
should try to update Barcode4J to use newer versions of the dependencies.

BR
Andreas

> BR
> Maruan
> 
> [1] http://barcode4j.sourceforge.net
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