ZXing.Net not compatible with Magick.Net >= 14.0.0

[neoGeneva]

For example, Magick.Net has moved IMagickImageFactory into ImageMagick.Factories so the following error gets thrown in build: "Reference to type 'IMagickImageFactory<>' claims it is defined in 'Magick.NET.Core', but it could not be found"

[micjahn]

fixed with package ZXing.Net.Bindings.Magick 0.16.15

[DavidVTurley]

We just moved to using ZXing.Net.Bindings.Magick 0.16.15 from 0.16.9.
We used to use this to generate the barcode, and it worked flawlessly, but now we needed to move to the newer version of ImageMagick. This broke our barcode generation implementation. However our new implementation does not seem to work well anymore.

public IMagickImage<byte> GenerateBarcodeImage(string barcodeContent, BarcodeFormat format, int width, int height)
{
 var barcodeWriter = new BarcodeWriterGeneric
            {
                Format = format,
                Options = new ZXing.Common.EncodingOptions()
                {
                    Height = height,
                    Width = barcodeContent.Length * 80,
                }
            };

            IMagickImage<byte> image = barcodeWriter.WriteAsMagickImage(barcodeContent);
            image.Density = new Density(300);
            return image;
}

Now the generation code is this:

public IMagickImage<byte> GenerateBarcodeImage(string barcodeContent, BarcodeFormat format, int width, int height)
{
            var barcodeWriter = new BarcodeWriterPixelData
            {
                Format = format,
                Options = new ZXing.Common.EncodingOptions()
                {
                    Height = height,
                    Width = barcodeContent.Length * 80,
                    PureBarcode = true
                }
            };

            // Generate the barcode pixel data
            var pixelData = barcodeWriter.Write(barcodeContent);

            // Convert pixel data to a MagickImage<byte>
            var magickImage = new MagickImage(pixelData.Pixels, new PixelReadSettings((uint)pixelData.Width, (uint)pixelData.Height, StorageType.Char, PixelMapping.RGB))
            {
                Density = new Density(300),
                Format = MagickFormat.Bmp
            };
            
            return magickImage;
}

We are then saving it like this.

using var imageStream = new MemoryStream();
using var image = GenerateBarcodeImage(barcodeContent);
await image.WriteAsync(imageStream, MagickFormat.Bmp);
//imageStream.Position = 0;
image.Write(new FileInfo("C:\\Test.bmp"));

The image is very distorted

I dont know if there is a better way than the new way we are trying to do it, but I cant get it working if I use the WriteAsMagickImage in the new code, with the generic writer.

Any help would be extremely appreciated!

[micjahn]

You can try the following:

        public IMagickImage<byte> GenerateBarcodeImage(string barcodeContent, BarcodeFormat format, int width, int height)
        {
            var barcodeWriter = new BarcodeWriterGeneric
            {
                Format = format,
                Options = new ZXing.Common.EncodingOptions()
                {
                    Height = height,
                    Width = barcodeContent.Length * 80,
                }
            };

            IMagickImage<byte> image = barcodeWriter.WriteAsMagickImage(new MagickImageFactory(), barcodeContent);
            image.Density = new Density(300);
            return image;
        }

You have to add a specific Magick.NET-Q... package to your solution which fits to your project.
I tested the snippet with Magick.NET-Q8-AnyCPU.