Documentation? er... what's that? ;) The -type arg is obviously not needed anymore and I think I can add back the -text label (it is important) just by sending that to the pdf document separately from the barcode, as I have working examples of sending text to the document. However... while pdf->xo_codabar() now returns something, I need to place it on the page at a specific location. This used to be like this:

# encode string $code as codabar image $bar
my $bar = makebarcode ($code);  # Working! Thank you!

# Place it at x,y page coordinates with scale and frame options.
# Doesn't work. 
$gfx->barcode($bar, $x, $y, $scale, $frame);

# Don't work neither.
$gfx->xo_codabar($bar, $x, $y, $scale, $frame)
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Now I get: Can't locate object method "what_I_tried" via package "PDF::API2::Content" Well, that's progress anyway. Just acquiring the barcode image was 80% of my battle. I will mull the meditations offered, but if you or anyone can just throw me the required "output $bar at coordinates" incantation, I have the rest of my legacy issues already wrapped. I found and tried:

$gfx->image($bar, $x, $y, $scale);
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But $bar is not an image? (Anyway I get a blank document, which is better than an error message). Found it!

# Works! 
$gfx->formimage($bar, $x, $y, $scale);
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