John R. Culleton wrote: > On Monday 11 June 2007 07:36, william f. maddock wrote: > >> I have been noticing a problem with scribus lately, beginning with >> version 1.3.3.7, then on 1.3.3.8, and finally, in version 1.3.4. >> Scribus crashes on exit and I have to force-quit in order to get >> rid of the remnants from memory. 1.3.3.x never gave a reason?it >> just crashed. On 1.3.4, however, when it crashed, a little dialog >> box came up that said "scribus crashes" with "Signal 11" >> >> I put "with" outside of quotes because I am not certain of that >> word being the word that was used in the dialog box. >> >> Also, when attempting to try out the barcode generator, I got the >> same result as with the earlier versions. It would go through the >> process, but not put the result on the page. There was also no >> option to paste anything, and when I tried to "select all", there >> was nothing to select, but 1.3.4 thought that it had imported EPS, >> because that was what was listed as the undo command: "undo import >> EPS" >> > > The best and simplest way to create and use excellent ISBN barcode is > with a stand-alone program like bookland.py. It would be nice if a > progam was all integrated nicely into Scribus and had all the needed > features but apparently it isn't and hasn't. So create the ISBN > barcode image with or without price code extension using another > program or online facility and then import the resulting eps and > place it where needed. You may have to disable automatic resizing or > make sure the new size is very close to the original size. > > That is the fastest, safest and surest way home. In the meantime good > people are working to make things better. You can check back from > time to time on their progress. > I'm going to play around with this, not because I have any use for ISBN barcodes, but just for the intellectual challenge. They're quite complex (!), and one of the more interesting asides is that one wonders if there is a mild "conspiracy" to not let people make them themselves. Googling results in a multitude of sites to do this for you, or buy software to do this for you. Thank God for Wikipedia!
Greg
