Barcode top row barcodes wrong placed

[CBee]

Binary package hint: barcode

While generating a table of 5 x 13 barcodes, the current installation provides a sheet of barcodes where the top row is off the page. In detial, my command string is:

barcode -u mm -c -p 210x297mm -t 5x13+5+10-5-10 -m 4,3 -i jaartapes.barcode.txt -o jaartapes.barcode.ps -c

Where 'jaartapes.barcode.txt' is a file with requested numbers and jaartapes.barcode.ps contains the resulting postscript file. In the past (last year, ubuntu 7.10) this ran without problem. Currently the top row of the table is printed in the top margin of the page and the other rows are nice spread over the page, printing 12 rows over 13 labels-rows...

[madbiologist (me-again)]

If this is still occurring on Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn", please use ubuntu-bug to file a new bug report so that we can get some system info and a set of system logs, and paste your above description into the new bug report.

[CBee (cbeerse)]

This issue still persists in 14.04, the current lts version. However, to view/print the barcode postscript info, the tool ps2pdf is used. It is possible this tool is the source of the problem.

On the other hand, the mentioned options do give different output between RedHat and Ubuntu... Both have their issues and donnot work according to the manual page (or barcode --help output).

I have to admit, we have both Ubuntu and CentOS/Redhad machines around. Since the CentOS/Redhat implementation works as expected, this is not an issue to us.

For the record, jaartabpes.barcode.txt:
ICT2014A
ICT2014B
ICT2014C
ICT2014D

barcode -u mm -c -p 210x297mm -t 5x13+5+10-5-10 -m 4,3 -i jaartapes.barcode.txt -o jaartapes.barcode.ps -c

[CBee (cbeerse)]

Given the state of the tool, the usage and the available workaround, I'd say leave this issue as is. I'm not sure in which repository this 'barcode' tool is stored, maybe move it to a repository with 'obsolete' tools.