Hi, I have just tried your hint and it happens to work. I have checked that the printed image was okay with a barcode reader. Thanks for your help.
Pascal It works > [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
