On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 09:43:44PM +0100, Terry Burton wrote: > Lacking support for EPS seems quite a surprising limitation - bother :-/ > > Do you know whether support for this on the horizon? > Hi Terry,
there've been plans to have some ghostscript integration for a longer time - but I don't believe this has had higher priority (though your offer might actually change this). The issue with ghostscript is the license - OOo can only make use of it out-of-process, with gs being GPL. > BWIPP is neatly split into a large set of encoder procedures (one for > each barcode symbology) and a few renderer procedures. The > corresponding encoders for each symbology accept the data to encode > and any other parameters and then generate a data structure (a PS > dictionary) that wholly and succinctly describes the barcode image. > This can then be passed to the relevant render, "renlinear" in the > case of one-dimensional barcodes, for image generation. Alternatively, > the barcode structure can be dumped as plain text over some IPC > channel to a non-PostScript frontend for parsing and internal > rendering using whatever graphics system is available. > Ah, interesting! This would make batch-processing the barcode out-of-process pretty straight-forward. IANAL, but shipping a gs executable alongside OOo (for e.g. Windows) should be ok. Cheers, -- Thorsten --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
