I'm new on the BIRT designing world.<br />
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I'm using BIRT 2.5.1 and comes with iText 1.54 and I'd like to use iText barcode generation capabilities in my web app.<br />
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I can obtain a PDF "subreport" or piece if you want to call it something but I'm unable to display it on my report design. It displays once deployed ""Current report item is not supported in this report format"...<br />
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This is what I have on my servlet:<br />
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SubReport folio = new SubReport();
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = folio.getFolioBC("123456");
byte[] bytes = baos.toByteArray();
task.getAppContext().put("imageBarcode", bytes);
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That code gets a ByteArray that starts with %PDF... and so on, so I assume it is a whole PDF with the barcode I need.<br />
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The SubReport class that outputs the ByteArrays is as follows:<br />
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public ByteArrayOutputStream getFolioBC (String folio) throws IOException, DocumentException {
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
Document document = new Document();
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, baos);
document.open();
PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent();
//Barcode 3 of 9 extended
Barcode39 code39ext = new Barcode39();
code39ext.setCode(folio);
code39ext.setStartStopText(false);
code39ext.setExtended(true);
document.add(code39ext.createImageWithBarcode(cb, null, null));
document.close();
return baos;
}
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Can you suggest me a way in with I don't have to depend on barcode fonts?<br />
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Hope to hear from you.
