iCalamus offers to place content from other programs into a document. In general, you will add e.g. texts, images or graphics into documents using the Import and Paste in Place functions. When you want to change these items afterwards, you may do so in iCalamus, but it may not be straightforward. Basically, you can change text directly in iCalamus, but for images and graphics, and even more special objects, iCalamus doesn't yet offer many tools. So you will usually have to start the external program in which you created such an object, then change the object, save it, and place it in iCalamus once more.
Right now, there are some applications which support the LinkBack technology, and are easier to use.
knowsthat the object originates from program XY and iCalamus can call this program for you, hand over the object to this program for editing, then update the object in the document immediately after you have saved changes to the object.
When you have created a bar code with Barcody, our Bar Code Generator program for Mac OS X, and have placed it in a iCalamus document, iCalamus knows that it originates from Barcody.
When you have selected the bar code in the document, the usually
grayed out menu entry Edit LinkBack Item
changes into a
program-specific entry, in this case, into Edit in Barcody
.
When you choose this menu entry, iCalamus automatically starts Barcody and transfers the selected object to Barcody for editing. Now you can change the bar code parameters effortlessly in Barcody.
After you have saved the bar code, it will be automatically updated in the iCalamus document.
Further information about LinkBack can be found on this website:
www.linkbackproject.orgHint: The LinkBack website is written in English.
