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Hi @SingingBush,

Thank you again for the great efforts in maintaining this library.

Do you have any releases scheduled soon ? or in other words, what is the frequency of releases you are planning to have ?

I am using the library, and multiple dependencies require updates (which truly don't want to do them one by one regularly, as I am only using them through this one). If you need any help in doing so I will be happy to assist in what I can.

as part of the maven migration #5 I setup a separate sub-module for Saxon 8 support. In more recent versions of Saxon (9, 10, 11) the PE or EE version is required. These are not available through maven and require a license. I've downloaded both saxon-ee-10.6.jar and saxon-ee-11.1.jar and taken a look at what would be required to support those versions. There are definitely breaking changes in the Saxon API since Saxon 8/9. With some work it should be possible to add a barcode4j-saxon module that works on both v10 and v11 but the saxon documentation isn't great and the requirement to have a valid license of the classpath makes testing a problem.

mime types in barcode4j are pretty old and in some cases use the x- prefix that's used to indicate non-standard mime types. For example; the mime type for png currently used image/x-png instead of the image/png value as defined by the png ISO/IEC standard in 2004.

This can result in:

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: No BitmapEncoder available for image/x-png

To prevent any breaking changes for users tests should be in place to ensure that both the standardised and non-standard values work with the code.

Add the Australia Post barcode generation from the Format control code and Sort code (DPID).
https://sourceforge.net/p/barcode4j/patches/18/
Created: 2009-01-02 by Antun Oreskovic

the zip contained following readme:

Hi Jeremias,

I believe that I have matched the code style, as you request. I took your RoyalBC code,
and converted to Austpost. All my changes were new classes, as I am not sure what the deal
is with changing existing code.

Obviously, I had to change;
org.krysalis.barcode4j.DefaultBarcodeClassResolver

by adding;
registerBarcodeClass("austpost",
"org.krysalis.barcode4j.impl.fourstate.AustPost", true);

Please review and let me know what you think. Any suggestions or changes you want made to it,
go right ahead, or let me know and I will make them.

I had to override some methods in the Fourstate classes, as the bars are reversed in
Austpost, then they are in Fourstate.

Additions;
org.krysalis.barcode4j.impl.fourstate.AustPost
org.krysalis.barcode4j.impl.fourstate.AustPostBean
org.krysalis.barcode4j.impl.fourstate.AustPostLogicImpl
These 3 you should recognise, very similar to RoyalMailCBC.
Just has some override methods for the bar calcs.

org.krysalis.barcode4j.impl.fourstate.FourStateAustPostLogicHandler
This class overrides the addbar, as the bars are reversed.

org.krysalis.barcode4j.impl.fourstate.AbstractAustPostLogicImpl
This class is the one that converts the Australian Format control and Sort code(DPID)
into the bar value representation. It does the Reed solomon calcs.

• Instructions for Use

To use this in XSL using FOP:

Set up variable,

<xsl:variable name="gbl-auspost-bc">

5.4mm
0.4mm
2.5
2mm
1.4mm
0.7mm

ignore
none

</xsl:variable>

fo:block
fo:instream-foreign-object
<xsl:copy-of select="barcode:generate($gbl-auspost-bc, $barval)"/>
</fo:instream-foreign-object>
</fo:block>

There are three customer barcode structures;
the inclusion of customer information being allowed in two bar types:

• Standard Customer Barcode 1 - length 37 bars, no bars of customer information
• Customer Barcode 2 - length 52 bars, 16 bars of customer information
• Customer Barcode 3 - length 67 bars, 31 bars of customer information

The $barval needs to be a concatenation of FFC and DPID.

FFC:

• Under Barcode 1 are;
  11 = Standard Customer Barcode
  45 = Reply Paid Barcode
  92 = Redirection Barcode

• Under Barcode 2 is;
  59 = Customer Barcode 2

• Under Barcode 3 are;
  62 = Customer Barcode 3
  44 = Currently Reserved

DPID:

• This is a unique 8A value of each address, supplied by Australia Post.
  Example: 39549554

Therefore, is you want a Standard Barcode 1, $Barval would be;
1139549554

This will return a blank value if DPID could not be converted.

once #5 is complete then focus on getting the code base to work with a more recent version of com.google.zxing

It's currently 1.7 so any update will require code changes

Hi @SingingBush again : )
First of all, thank you for the efforts in publishing the 2.2.0 release.
I tried using the barcode4j-fop-ext library, but for some reason it wasn't recognized, as not all dependencies were loaded and checked (we have private maven repo, which will not fetch any public library not uploaded in public maven central, for some reason).
I think the solution is to publish the barcode4g-xgc library.

Thank you again for the efforts.

update test resources (src/test/xml/*.xml) to change from <font-name>Courier</font-name> to <font-name>Courier New</font-name>.

May need to consider the need for Linux to have mscorefonts installed

Hi @SingingBush,
Do you have any plans on releasing this fork to maven ?
And what is the status of the project in general ? are you still invested in ?
Thanks

Not sure how to get CLI to work with this project. I've tried running with the JAR file and with java -cp with no luck.

(I'm sure it is something I am not understanding as I don't spend much time with Java)

Please specify the license under which this fork of barcode4j is released.

plan is to try and get a maven build working without messing with project structure at first. Just want the builds for:

• barcode4j.jar
• barcode4j-fop-ext.jar

anything else is bonus.

I'll try and get CI working for both Ant and Maven at first, then once that's done I'll consider restructuring the project into standard maven format and dropping Ant alltogether

although the files are all UTF-8 there are charset problems that need fixing. I suspect this was a problem in Sourceforge, perhaps when going from CVS to svn. An example is files that are showing Jeremias M�rki instead of Jeremias Märki even though the charset is UTF-8.

As there's a lot of � chars in the test classes some care will need to be taken to ensure they are set to the intended values.

To keep the current source compiling batik dependencies need to stay at 1.7, it would be good to make the required changes to update to 1.12 once #5 is done

the Avalon Framework is now retired so any dependency on it should be removed

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/excalibur/AvalonFramework

Hi,
sorry for the stupid question, but is it maybe possible that you forgot to release the xalan extension package (artifactId barcode4j-xalan)?
Because right now I try to migrate from Barcode4J 2.1 to your version and still after a lot of changes I get:

file:/simple_test.xsl; Line #31; Column #64; java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: For extension function, could not find method org.apache.xml.dtm.ref.DTMNodeIterator.generate([ExpressionContext,] #STRING).
2024-03-05 16:29:53,501 [FATAL] [de.fop.generator.LogEventListener] [0000]: "fo:instream-foreign-object" is missing child elements. Required content model: one (1) non-XSL namespace child (No context info available)
(Location of error unknown)org.apache.fop.fo.ValidationException: "fo:instream-foreign-object" is missing child elements. Required content model: one (1) non-XSL namespace child (No context info available)

Thanks & BR
Florian

I've done some testing with Quarkus Native and found that after building a native executable there are runtime issues. It's worth investigating a little further as it may well be possible to get things working with some configuration properties

make sure that barcode4j-examples doesn't get published when doing releases.