On Monday 12 July 2010 12:33:47 Gregory Pittman wrote: > On 07/12/2010 12:21 PM, John Culleton wrote: > > On Monday 12 July 2010 07:25:17 Leander Sukov wrote: > >> Am Montag 12 Juli 2010 schrieb Gotthard: > >>> I need an barcode and used the barcodegenerator. How > > > > can I make the > > > >>> background of the barcode transparent, because the > > > > background of my > > > >>> project is coloured. > >> > >> This might be a bad idea. If an old barcode reader is used, > > > > it might occure > > > >> that the background color makes the barcode unreadable. > > > > Further, I cannot recall a professionally prepared book that > > had a colored or patterned background for a bar code. In this > > case convention overrules your personal esthetic > > preferences. Just because it can be done doesn't mean that > > it is a good idea. > > In the end, though, I think that there should be some leeway in this > process. As I go through the supermarket checkout I notice that many > barcodes can be in various colors, so there clearly is some degree of > contrast which scanners can cope with. > > I also can imagine that a background for a barcode might be desired to > be semi-transparent in some degree. > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus
I am not dealing with the issue of ultimate readability, though that exists, but with publishing convention. A lot of cute tricks will brand your book as an amateur effort and I suspect this is one of them. -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
