From: Tore Darell <toredarell@...>
Date: 2008-07-13T01:20:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Barby 0.1 - Ruby barcode generator that doesn't suck (that much)

On Jun 13, 8:15 am, Ramon Cahenzli <ramon.cahen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Foreero Ivan wrote:
> > Please somebody can help me , I'm new with ruby , can anybdy tell me
> > how use barby with PDF's documents ?
>
> It's not the only way, but if you're using Ruby FPDF, I've written a
> small extension that can print Barby codes into FPDF-generated PDFs:


Also, if you're using PDF::Writer, there's built-in support for that:


require 'barby'
require 'barby/outputter/pdfwriter_outputter'

pdf = PDF::Writer.new
barcode = Barby::Code128B.new('humbaba')
barcode.annotate_pdf(pdf)


The CairoOutputter can generate PDFs from scratch if you for some
reason want that:


require 'barby/outputter/cairo_outputter'

File.open('test.pdf'){|f| f << barcode.to_pdf }


In the git repo there's an experimental PrawnOutputter that can both
annotate and generate PDFs using Prawn.

Tore