On Tuesday 20 November 2007 10:23:02 am Marc Sabatella wrote: > >I did get the Scribus barcode genertor to work, but fiund the results > >unsatisfactory - they didn't lend themselves to cropping / resizing. Or > > at least, I couldn't figure out how to do so without messing it up. In > > the past I used a utility that came with some software I bought, but that > > was three computers and two OS's ago. So I just browsed around online > > and found a free online java-based barcode generator that worked fine. > > Sorry, I don't remember which, but Google was quite helpful - there were > > several that seemed like they could do the job. > > > > > > To resize, > > > > 1. Click in the 'barcode box' > > 2. grab one of the corners and pull it to the size you want > > Thanks, but I know how to resize things in general. it's just that results > looked terrible with the barcodes - the relative size and spacing of the > bars did not appear to be held perfectly constant, and it seemed unlikely > to me that the resize graphic would scan correctly. I think this is > because the barcode is implemented as a group of vector graphics rather > than a bitmapped image, and perhaps there is an option somewhere to make > these types of elements resize more correctly. Or maybe it was just a bug > in 1.3.4. > > -------------- > Marc Sabatella > marc at outsideshore.com > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
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