com.itextpdf.text.pdf
Class BarcodeQRCode

java.lang.Object
  com.itextpdf.text.pdf.BarcodeQRCode

public class BarcodeQRCode
extends Object

A QRCode implementation based on the zxing code.

Since:

5.0.2

Author:

Paulo Soares

Constructor Summary

BarcodeQRCode(String content, int width, int height, Map<EncodeHintType,Object> hints)
Creates the QR barcode.

Method Summary

Image	createAwtImage(Color foreground, Color background) Creates a java.awt.Image.
Image	getImage() Gets an Image with the barcode.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

BarcodeQRCode

public BarcodeQRCode(String content,
                     int width,
                     int height,
                     Map<EncodeHintType,Object> hints)

Creates the QR barcode. The barcode is always created with the smallest possible size and is then stretched to the width and height given. Set the width and height to 1 to get an unscaled barcode.

Parameters:

content - the text to be encoded

width - the barcode width

height - the barcode height

hints - modifiers to change the way the barcode is create. They can be EncodeHintType.ERROR_CORRECTION and EncodeHintType.CHARACTER_SET. For EncodeHintType.ERROR_CORRECTION the values can be ErrorCorrectionLevel.L, M, Q, H. For EncodeHintType.CHARACTER_SET the values are strings and can be Cp437, Shift_JIS and ISO-8859-1 to ISO-8859-16. The default value is ISO-8859-1.

Throws:

WriterException

Method Detail

getImage

public Image getImage()
               throws BadElementException

Gets an Image with the barcode.

Returns:

the barcode Image

Throws:

BadElementException - on error

createAwtImage

public Image createAwtImage(Color foreground,
                            Color background)

Creates a java.awt.Image.

Parameters:

foreground - the color of the bars

background - the color of the background

Returns:

the image