The past two days I've been working on a small project which
required the generating of a PDF file with a barcode and some
other text data, and a watermark image. Today I decided to do a
clean install on Ubuntu 9.10 AMD64 running in VirtualBox of all
programs I use to convert an XML file, via an intermediate XML
file, to a PDF file, . And a good thing I did, since my customer
had trouble with making Apache FOP, one of the programs I use in
the project, work with the Barcode4J extension. The FOP shell
script, located in /usr/bin/, which launches the Java FOP
program is different in more recent versions of Ubuntu from the
script in Ubuntu 8.10, which I am (still) running. Instead of
setting CLASSPATH one now has to set
JAVA_CLASSPATH to the full path of a jar file to
make Apache FOP see the Barcode4J extension. This is explained
in more detail in the "Testing Barcode4J via Apache FOP" section
below.
Read the rest of Barcodes with Apache FOP.
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