From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/31284 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henning Hraban Ramm Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Can ConTeXt make dynamic barcoded forms? Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:42:03 +0200 Message-ID: References: <769ba7780610100853m21043fb6iba1834af0a75004@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1160498568 14217 80.91.229.2 (10 Oct 2006 16:42:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:42:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Oct 10 18:42:41 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GXKgZ-0007fr-8k for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:42:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EECB21FD93; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:42:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 09604-02; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:42:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EA371FD7E; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:42:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3795F1FD7E for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:42:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 09348-03 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:42:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.188]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 2898B1FD7B for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:42:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [83.77.60.58] (helo=[10.128.9.3]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu1) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKwpI-1GXKgD37vH-0004MA; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:42:10 +0200 In-Reply-To: <769ba7780610100853m21043fb6iba1834af0a75004@mail.gmail.com> Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:71ece21a21b2fa6ef1812787a4eaee0e X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:31284 Archived-At: Am 2006-10-10 um 17:53 schrieb Zhichu Chen: > I've seen some marvelous samples on Adobe' official site about dynamic > barcoded forms using XML: > can someone tell me that is it possible to build such pdfs using > ConTeXt? Not yet ;-) I can think of 3 possibilities for a static barcodes module: - draw the bars with MetaPost - use psTricks/pdfTricks - call GNU barcode externally - use barcode fonts (makes no sense...) That would be interesting for price tags, ISBN or the like. But dynamical stuff like Adobe's must probably get drawn with JavaScript (or perhaps Flash?). I guess it would be *possible* but you'd have to hire a good programmer... Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net http://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)