I did the following and it seemed to help (made the barcodes thinner):

code128.setX(.5f);



-regards
Kevin


                                                 
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Without going to 2D codes the code 128 is the more efficient.

Paulo

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Buhr" <kbuhr@(protected)>
To: <itext-questions@(protected)>
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 9:12 PM
Subject: [iText-questions] most amout of data in the smallest amout of
space(width) Barcodes


>
> Hello there,
>
> I am using IText to generate Barcodes. Was wondering what was the best
way
> (which type of Barcode, fonts, etc.) to get the most amout of data in the
> smallest amout of space (width)?
>
> Am using the following code and we are making labels with barcodes- 3
> barcodes per row and 10 rows per page. Our values to put in the bar code
> could get up to 30 characters. Not sure if that is doable, but would like
> to find a way to maximize the amount of information that could fit in a
> bar
> code. Here is the code creating the bar code:
>
>    private Image createBarcode( String value )
>    {
>        //System.out.println("\nentering Labels3x10.createBarcode
value
> = " + value + "\n");
>        PdfContentByte cb = getPdfWriter().getDirectContent();
>        Barcode128 code128 = new Barcode128();
>        code128.setCode( value );
>        code128.setCodeType( Barcode.CODE128 );
>        //code128.setBarHeight( 36 );
>        code128.setBarHeight( 24 );        //ktb 05032006
>        code128.setSize( 1 );
>
>        Color barColor = new Color( 0, 0, 0 );
>        Color txtColor = new Color( 255, 255, 255 );
>        return code128.createImageWithBarcode( cb, barColor, txtColor
> );
>    }
>
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