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Barcode height

Open nicknomo opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

Would it possible to adjust the relative height of the barcode lines? Any pointers on how? I'd really like to generate barcodes that look more proportional to a UPC code. I can to fork this to make changes, just not sure where to start.

nicknomo avatar Jan 13 '22 18:01 nicknomo

Forking would certainly be the quickest way. You should start looking at https://github.com/graphicore/librebarcode/blob/master/app/bin/buildAll and modify values around here:

https://github.com/graphicore/librebarcode/blob/f9864c42b2c467f255659c8851c124e4cd56c67a/app/bin/buildAll#L73-L79

Also, ideally, especially if you are going to release change these to something else:

    local FAMILY_BASE_NAME="Libre Barcode"
    local FILE_BASENAME="LibreBarcode"
    local VENDOR_ID="GRCR"
# and add to
    local COPYRIGHT="Copyright 2017-2020 The $FAMILY_BASE_NAME Project Authors (https://github.com/graphicore/librebarcode)"

To avoid confusion, both of users and of the Operating System font menus.

At some point in the future I'll add variable font tables to these fonts, height could be a slider in the fonts and static instances could be made from those automatically. But it won't happen too soon.

graphicore avatar Jan 13 '22 23:01 graphicore

Labeled as enhancement, as a reminder of the variable font idea.

graphicore avatar Jan 14 '22 00:01 graphicore