I have some legacy code for a public library app to generate codabar barcodes to PDF for on-demand inventory labels. The old code made a call to $pdf->barcode() but that method is deprecated. Old code in question:

sub makebarcode { 
  # given a string, return encoded codabar as image
  my $code = shift(@_);
  my $img = $pdf->barcode(
    -type => $type,
    -font => $pdffont,
    -code => $code,
    -quzn => $quzn,
    -umzn => $umzn,    
    -lmzn => $lmzn,    # fontsize at bottom
    -zone => $zone,
    -ofwt => $owft,
    -text => $label,
    -fnsz => $fnsz,
    -spcr => $spcr,
  );
  return $img;
}
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Codabar functionality in PDF::API2 has moved to PDF::API2::Resource::XObject::Form::BarCode::codabar but I can't figure out how to give it these same args (input string, all those zoning params, etc. Admittedly this is probably due to a density issue in my own gray matter. I tried PDF::Report->drawBarcode which takes similar args, but that module's use of PDF::API2 also seems to be obsolete. Can someone please offer a translation for the new PDF::API2?

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