Support for printing QR-Code?

[Ben Hayat]

Hi;
When will you be supporting QR-Code printing?

Thanks!

[Steve]

Hi Ben,

We have the 2D barcodes request logged in our features list and if there is enough interest for such barcodes, we would consider their implementation. We've logged your vote for QR.

Greetings,
Steve
the Telerik team

[Kenneth Mazur]

I vote for it 2!

[John Pendergrast]

I would definitely vote for QR code support as well.

[Bruce Walker]

Add my vote too.

[SWAT]

Yes please, QR code is somthing our clients start to ask for.

[Danny]

I would like to add my vote for this as well.

[SwanB]

QR-codes please

[Hrisi]

Hi guys,

I think the original question is misleading. First of all what means "support of QR code". If your data contains a QR barcode this implies that it will be in binary format (image). Telerik Reporting provides a PictureBox item for such purposes. Second, if you want to represent some text as QR barcode, you can use an user function. There are plenty of QR drawing libraries including free ones. You can use them to convert the text to the image and put this image as a value for the PictureBox item.

The original question is regarding printing only, but I think the previous thoughts are the answer. Furthermore if you use the reporting only for printing (export to pdf) I think there is more than enough document-centric applications that will do the job better and more easily. Why not to use them?

Greetings,
Hrisi
the Telerik team

[SwanB]

I do agree with Hrisis comments.

As QR-codes have a very profound market penetration and are used extensively throughout the world, we more or less took for granted that Telerik Reporting supported "representing text as a QR BarCode".

We appreciate the suggestion and do understand that this is "do-able" through "a hack using a user function", but we feel this is beside the point as we expected that this was supported natively in the Telerik Reporting product.

1.
That being said, to avoid not being left in the dark, we would appreciate very much a sample where this user funtion functionality for QR-code is used.

2.
Please also indicate what is the plans and timeframe for Telerik Reporting for supporting "representing text as a QR BarCode" ?


Best Regards
Swan B

[Steve]

Hi,

As every Barcode component produces images, if you use a 3rd party library/component that can QR barcode, then you can use our PictureBox item to show this image. For example you can define a user function that returns the image and feed the picturebox item with it e.g.:

        public static Image GetBarcodeImage(string barcode)
        {
            // This is the pseudo code
            MyQRBarcode barcodeEngine = new MyQRBarcode(barcode)
            return barcodeEngine.GetImage();
        }

And use this UserFunction in the PictureBox Value expression:

    = GetBarcodeImage(Fields.BarCode)

where Fields.BarCode is the database field containing the value of the bar code.

We cannot engage with a time frame for natively supporting 2D bar code symbologies at this time.

Regards,
Steve
the Telerik team

[Vasssek]

Hello everyone,

take a look at this link:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/datamatrixnet/

This project supports 2D codes (Datamatrix, PDF417) for  .NET and .NET CF applications... And it's free :)

Best regards

Vasssek 

[Otto Neff]

Vote! Currently it's pretty sad that there is no way to have Vector Based 2D Codes in PDF Exports with Telerik Reporting.

[Stef]

Hi,

The Barcode item supports the 1D and 2D barcode types listed here.

If you need other barcode type, you can render the barcode with other libraries and save it as an image that can be later displayed in a report via PictureBox item.


I hope this information helps you.

Regards,
Stef
Telerik


Regards,
Stef
Telerik