Chills Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 As most books and magazines use an ISBN or ISSN with a barcode It would be great if Affinity Publisher had a barcode generator built in. Is this on the road map for V2 in 2023? though it would make a great Christmas present for 2022 🙂 Otherwise does anyone know of a Windows Barcode generator that is inexpensive? This is for a quaterly magazine for a charity. Skippy, Pyanepsion and Rudolphus 2 1 Quote www.JAmedia.uk and www.TamworthHeritage.org.uk [Win 11 | AMD Ryzen 5950X 16 Core CPU | 128GB Ram | NVIDIA 3080TI 12GB ] [MB ASUS ProArt B550| C Drive:; 1TB M2 980 Pro | D Drive; 2TB M2 970 EVO ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Neil Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 4 minutes ago, Chills said: As most books and magazines use an ISBN or ISSN with a barcode It would be great if Affinity Publisher had a barcode generator built in. Is this on the road map for V2 in 2023? though it would make a great Christmas present for 2022 🙂 Otherwise does anyone know of a Windows Barcode generator that is inexpensive? This is for a quaterly magazine for a charity. It is very unlikely to come to Publisher. You can use this site: https://barcode.tec-it.com/en Aongus Collins 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chills Posted November 15, 2022 Author Share Posted November 15, 2022 6 minutes ago, Sam Neil said: It is very unlikely to come to Publisher. You can use this site: https://barcode.tec-it.com/en Thanks for that. Why is it "unlikely" to come to Publisher?  The last time I looked at Adobe inDesign there wasn't one in that either so there must be, I assume, a good reason why, what appears to be something trivial, isn't included in these programs? Quote www.JAmedia.uk and www.TamworthHeritage.org.uk [Win 11 | AMD Ryzen 5950X 16 Core CPU | 128GB Ram | NVIDIA 3080TI 12GB ] [MB ASUS ProArt B550| C Drive:; 1TB M2 980 Pro | D Drive; 2TB M2 970 EVO ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Neil Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 11 minutes ago, Chills said: Thanks for that. Why is it "unlikely" to come to Publisher?  The last time I looked at Adobe inDesign there wasn't one in that either so there must be, I assume, a good reason why, what appears to be something trivial, isn't included in these programs? It has been asked before and never made it to APUB as for the reason I am not sure, Ironically Serif PagePlus has it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyanepsion Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 Such a feature is actually not that difficult to create. There are even specialised fonts. Having it built directly into the Affinity suite would be a major bonus, saving us the time of typing the code into a free specialist site and then formatting the image for each book publication. Ideally a simple highlighting of the number in the book as a page number or whatever should automatically create the barcode with the dimensions, colour, text etc. if the functionality was well designed. Chills and Skippy 2 Quote 6 cœurs, 12 processus - Windows 11 pro - 4K - DirectX 12 - Suite universelle Affinity (Affinity Publisher, Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo). ███ Mais je vous le demande, peut-on imaginer une police sans sérifs ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twolane Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 I use this one https://bookow.com/resources.php#isbn-barcode-generator Chills and Aongus Collins 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StudioJason Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 All in all….thanks for the resources guys! Chills 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted November 15, 2022 Share Posted November 15, 2022 This would probably make for a good plugin once the SDK is released. myclay, David Cake and Chills 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chills Posted November 15, 2022 Author Share Posted November 15, 2022 6 minutes ago, fde101 said: This would probably make for a good plugin once the SDK is released. Yes PLEASE!!!!!! Quote www.JAmedia.uk and www.TamworthHeritage.org.uk [Win 11 | AMD Ryzen 5950X 16 Core CPU | 128GB Ram | NVIDIA 3080TI 12GB ] [MB ASUS ProArt B550| C Drive:; 1TB M2 980 Pro | D Drive; 2TB M2 970 EVO ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chills Posted November 15, 2022 Author Share Posted November 15, 2022 On 11/15/2022 at 12:31 PM, Sam Neil said: It has been asked before and never made it to APUB as for the reason I am not sure, Ironically Serif PagePlus has it. So it it is in Serif Page Plus it can clearly be done. And Serif have the code for it.... Maybe as others have asked for it we could see it in APub V2.1? (Please!!!) Quote www.JAmedia.uk and www.TamworthHeritage.org.uk [Win 11 | AMD Ryzen 5950X 16 Core CPU | 128GB Ram | NVIDIA 3080TI 12GB ] [MB ASUS ProArt B550| C Drive:; 1TB M2 980 Pro | D Drive; 2TB M2 970 EVO ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 On 11/15/2022 at 10:42 AM, Chills said: So it it is in Serif Page Plus it can cleary be done. Swift Publisher offers this too. QuarkXPress offers this for QR codes only.  As has been discussed previously in the older thread on this from version 1: For most 1D barcodes this can be done simply by installing and selecting the appropriate font, regardless of the application. For 2D barcodes (such as QR codes) that is obviously not an option. Chills 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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