[barcode] Output from cmdline without margin

Martin Schröder ms@artcom-gmbh.de
Mon Jun 14 11:42:48 CEST 2004


On 2004-06-11 18:34:47 +0200, Franz Zahaurek wrote:
> To get rid of the 10 point margin you can do one of the following:
> (barcode-0.98)
> 
> 1) You can change the statement "#define BARCODE_DEFAULT_MARGIN 10" in
>    barcode.h to be 0 and then recompile the package.  But I think a scanner
>    needs some white space around the barcode in horizontal direction to
>    recognize the code.
> 
> 2) You can change the %%BoundingBox: comment in the resulting eps-file.
>    Add 10 to the first and second value, subtract 10 from the third and fourth.
> 
> Is this what you need?

Not exactly. I was hoping to be able to convice the unpatched app
to do this. But I'm converting the eps to pdf anyway and can crop
the barcode when including the pdf in pdfTeX.

Best regards
        Martin
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