On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Chris Nighswonger < cnighswon...@foundations.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 8:10 AM, mike re-v<mrmrm...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > Greetings, > > print to file and send it to me, I'll see if I can open it. > > Alternatively, hexedit will open, it and it could look at the leader > > and the end byte codes to see what it is you are producing.Then compare > what you are producing to what works. > > > > from the command line $ hexedit foo.pdf > > > > Alternately you can just open the pdf in a plain text editor and check > to see that the barcode data is there. PDF is a sort of mangled Post > Script stream. > > > Below is the stream for a single item. The line with the series of > zeros and ones is the barcode. However, I can confirm that the > barcodes do not display in Reader 9.0 while they do in 7.0. Versions > 8.0 and 9.0 use PDF version 1.7 while 7.0 uses 1.6. There may be a > subtle difference in syntax that causes the breakage. I'll open a bug > and try to take a look at it next week. > The issue here is not a Koha issue, but *probably* an issue where Adobe Reader does not maintain backward compatibility. Fortunately the fix is not so bad. We just switch from embedding the barcodes as a Type3 font to graphical embedding. I'll submit a patch later today against the current HEAD. It will need to be back-ported to the 3.0.x branch as well. Regards, Chris
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