Our application needs to be able to render barcodes to PDF documents that will be accessible over the internet. Our technology stack includes Sql Server Reporting Services so we would like to leverage it and it's ability to render to PDF; however, we are not able to get it to embedded the FREE3OF9.ttf font in any consistent manner. I have reviewed this question, but would like to know if any one has used Neodynamic products particularly their SSRS product and whether or not they were satisfied with it. If anyone has any other solutions besides Neodynamic for rendering barcodes to a PDF via SSRS I would also like to hear those.
A:
I haven't used SRSS before, but I have written barcode generating software. If you are looking for alternatives, writing your own is not too difficult.
You can find all of the information regarding barcode encoding online. I used Code 128, and simply created a table of values in my source code. Rendering the barcode is just a matter of drawing solid black and white bars based on the information in the table, so you don't need to worry about embedding fonts.
It looks like you want to use Reporting Services, so maybe this doesn't help. Either way, good luck with it!
e.James
2009-03-26 13:45:32