> Am 27.03.2015 um 12:54 schrieb Andreas Lehmkühler <andr...@lehmi.de>: > > 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.
I'd go for stripping it down to the bare minimum needed - the benefit of Barcode4J is the ASL license. > Or we > should try to update Barcode4J to use newer versions of the dependencies. There are a lot of dependencies such as Avalon, commons-cli, Xalan which we shouldn't need from a first glance. > > BR > Andreas > >> BR >> Maruan >> >> [1] http://barcode4j.sourceforge.net >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@pdfbox.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@pdfbox.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@pdfbox.apache.org
