Hi, This is my fault. I did not make it clear that I was generating barcodes via an API (IDAutomation actually) that generates images. I already tried to give fixed values to content-width and content-height but the printed results looks awkward. It seems that the scaling algorithm downgrades the barcode quality. I am currently investigating : - SVG as you mentionned but I do not see how I can use it to take a bitmap image as input (I looked at it very quickly on Friday, so I need to get back to it).- The use of a dedicated font.
Thanks for your help again. Pascal > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Do you know if it is possible to generate SVG from a bitmapped graphic >> (GIF or JPEG. The API i use does not generate SVG unfortunately). I >> shall give a try at SVG (if I can embed or convert the barcode image). > > Oops, I got the impression you generated your barcodes > as SVG, because you fiddled with an SVG class. > If you use a bitmap format, simply put width and height > on the fo:external-graphic element to scale it to the size > tou want to have. Use any bitmap size you want, it will be > scaled. This may give artifacts on low resolution screens, > print it for final judgement. If you want to be sure that > it is mapped to the printer without rounding artifacts, > use an image width so that image-pixel-width/fo-width divides > the printer resolution, for example > printer: 600 dpi > suggested resolution: 300 dpi > width on paper output: 5.08 cm (2 inch) > use 300 dpi*2inch=600 pixel width > Each pixel of your bitmap will then be printed using 2 printer > pixels (hopefully). > >> I am also considering the use of a barcode font. On the project for >> which I am working, they used a barcode font in order to produce small >> but still high quality barcodes). I wondered if it is possible to do >> such a thing with FOP (I have seen somewhere in FOP samples that it >> was supposedly possible but I have not yet given it a try). > > It is possible, at least in theory. Get a font, and look into > docs/htmnl/docs/fonts.html for how to use it with FOP. Unfortunately, > barcodes are not unicode characters, and font importing sometimes > fails because the font files do not contain an unicode mapping. > > > J.Pietschmann
