QuarkXPress - Add barcode images

How to add a barcode image into a QuarkXPress document

You can use the ActiveBarcode Application to add barcodes to your QuarkXPress documents:

Launch the ActiveBarcode Application and create the barcode according to your needs. If you need information of how to use the ActiveBarcode Application click here.

If you want to place a bitmap image to your document use the function "Copy Bitmap". You do this, if you need a barcode in an exact size.

If you want to place a vector graphics to your document use the function "Copy Metafile". You do this, if you want to freely resize the barcode in your document.

The barcode will now be copied to the Windows clipboard and is available for nearly any application running on your system.

Open QuarkXPress now and create a new document or you open a already existing document, in which you like to place the just created barcode.

First create a content box with the Rectangle Picture Box Tool:

Click with the right mouse button in this box and select as content the format Picture.

Now select the function "Paste" from the "Edit" menu:

The barcode will be be copied from the Windows clipboard into your document:

Now the bar code is pasted as graphics in your document and can be edited like any other graphics in QuarkXPress.

Hint: The barcode has been added as image to your document. The images resultion has been set by you using the ActiveBarcode Application (Menu "Barcode": Layout & Size). If you create the barcode in a low resolution (e.g. 200x50 pixels) and then print it to a printer with a high resolution the barcodes textline may look like it has a too low resolution and huge blocks are visible. This also happens when you resize the barcode inside your document to get it bigger. To avoid this you must create the barcode in a bigger resolution before you copy the barcode to the Windows clipboard. Then you paste the barcode image to your document and resize it to the required smaller size. Now the resolution of the image is higher and if you print your document the barcode will look much better!