iTextSharp Inserting Text as an Image

iTextSharp - Inserting Text as an Image

I'm using iTextSharp to populate a PDF form-field template.

Forgive me if this is a dumb or obvious question, but would it be
possible to convert a string of characters into an image and insert it
into the document using PdfContentByte? For example, below is the code
I'm using to overlay a barcode onto the document:

                PdfContentByte cb = stamper.GetUnderContent(1);
                Barcode39 code39BCD = new Barcode39();
                code39BCD.Code = SOMEVARIABLE;
                code39BCD.Size = 0.65f;
                code39BCD.BarHeight = 16;
                code39BCD.Extended = false;
                Image imageCode39 = code39BCD.CreateImageWithBarcode
(cb, null, null);
                imageCode39.SetAbsolutePosition(235, 578);
                cb.AddImage(imageCode39);

...there is no object I can find equivilent to "Barcode39" which will
take a string and a font and convert that text to a image with
something like "CreateImageWithBarcode".

The reason for inserting a text image rather than using an embedded
font is that I cannot embed any fonts in this particular document.

Thanks in advance.

Re: iTextSharp - Inserting Text as an Image

On Sep 4, 3:57=A0pm, "SH" <trash_mail_acco...@web.de> wrote:
> I'm not sure about your Barcode class. What does it do?

iTextSharp includes special Barcode classes:
http://twinzlover.blogspot.com/2008/01/barcode-generation-using-itext.html

The barcodes are inserted as vector graphics (but not as fonts).