BE THE CODER > Barcodes > iText Examples

iText is a free and open source library for creating PDF documents and generating Barcodes in Java. This requires the library iText-5.0.2.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows generating DataMatrix Barcode.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/itext/DataMatrixTest.java
Author :	Sudhakar KV
Email :	[email protected]


package com.bethecoder.tutorials.itext;



import java.io.FileNotFoundException;

import java.io.FileOutputStream;

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;



import com.itextpdf.text.Document;

import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;

import com.itextpdf.text.Image;

import com.itextpdf.text.PageSize;

import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph;

import com.itextpdf.text.Rectangle;

import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.BarcodeDatamatrix;

import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;



public class DataMatrixTest {



  /**

   * @param args

   * @throws DocumentException 

   * @throws FileNotFoundException 

   * @throws UnsupportedEncodingException 

   */

  public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException, 

    DocumentException, UnsupportedEncodingException {

    

    Document document = new Document(new Rectangle(PageSize.A4));

    PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream("datamatrix.pdf"));

    document.open();



    //Datamatrix Barcode

    document.add(new Paragraph("Datamatrix Barcode"));

        

    BarcodeDatamatrix datamatrix = new BarcodeDatamatrix();

    datamatrix.generate("IText Barcode tutorials from BE THE CODER");

    Image image = datamatrix.createImage();

    

    //Add Barcode to PDF document

        document.add(image);

        document.close();

  }



}