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> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 10:11 PM
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> Subject: [iText-questions] Maxicode and PDF417
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> Hi,
> I have two questions regarding these 2D barcode formats:
> 1. It seems that Maxicode is not supported by iText. Is there
> any plan to add Maxicode in the future? (I do know there are
> Maxicode projects out there. I just wonder about a more 
> 'integrated' solution that's all).
>

There are no plans to implement maxicode.
 
> 2. It seems rather unintuitive that BarcodePDF417 is not
> a subclass of Barcode. I suppose the reason is because
> Barcode is designed to be 1D. But it seems to me the 2D
> class does share many of the same interface with 1D Barcode
> (for example setText/setCode, setHeight,...). If we should
> adhere to a strict design, can we have something like
> a grand Barcode super-interface, and then two sub-interface's
> (or abstract classes) Barcode1D and Barcode2D? Then
> we can treat barcode instances in a more ubiquitous way,
> for example:
> Barcode bc = (Barcode)Class.forName(clsName).newInstance();
> ...
> bc.getImage();
> 
> which right now is impossible because BarcodePDF417 does
> not share a common ancestor.

2D barcodes are too different to be put in same bag as 1D.

Best Regards,
Paulo Soares


> Thank you.
> 
> 
> BarcodePDF417
> 
> 
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