[Barcode] Lout and Barcodes. (fwd)

[Dani Pardo]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Alessandro Rubini wrote:

> 
> 
> > should Barcode generate a BoundingBox?
> 
> If you generate EPS files, it already includes it. If this is not
> enough, I can easily add %BoundingBox to the PS output, but only if
> printing a single barcode (or one per page). This would be printed by
> the "main.c" frontend, not the library.
> 
> Doing it for multi-barcode pages is more difficult (even though I
> didn't think about the details, yet). Unless the "(atend)"
> specification would suffice.
> 
> >From the message you forwarded, though, spitting out EPS would be
> enough to solve the problem (please correct me if I'm wrong, I'm very
> busy and didn't verify the details).
> 

   Yes, you're true. Using -E in barcode front-end, it generates a
bounding box, that can be included in Lout. 
   If more than one barcode was to be needed for the same page (not my
case), someone could keep Including different eps files in the Lout
source. 

  Btw.. Lout is pretty cool, you can do things like:

 45d @Rotate @IncludeGraphic barcode.eps -> So the barcode gets +45 deg
rotated, and other "niceties".. it can be found at

	http://snark.ptc.spbu.ru/~uwe/lout/lout.html

  Documentation is good also.

 
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Dani Pardo, dani@enpl.es
Enplater S.A