Chills Posted July 20 Share Posted July 20 Can Affinity add an ISSN/ISBN to Publisher? It is essential for people doing books and magazines, the home turf for publisher. I believe they used to do it in the Serif tools before Affinity. 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...
Alfred Posted July 20 Share Posted July 20 Like Affinity Publisher, the last version of Serif PagePlus included a QR Code Tool but no barcode tools. Unlike APub, the QR Code feature in PP allows the user to specify the error correction level. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 20 Share Posted July 20 You've probably been here long enough to know that Serif doesn't really answer that kind of question, and that requests for new function go in the Feedback forum, not Questions. Chills 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted July 20 Share Posted July 20 Is it "essential" in APub – Or is it enough to create the barcode, for example, using one of the various online tools and import the resource like any other? https://products.aspose.app/barcode/generate/issn https://barcode.tec-it.com/en/ISSN https://www.isbn.de/barcode/1234567890128 Chills 1 Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chills Posted July 21 Author Share Posted July 21 9 hours ago, thomaso said: Is it "essential" in APub – Or is it enough to create the barcode, for example, using one of the various online tools and import the resource like any other? An ISSN/ISBN code generator is more essential in APub than a QR code generator, where you can also get numerous free generators. 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...
Alfred Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 An ISSN barcode is essentially(!) an EAN-13 barcode beginning with the digits 977 and preceded by the letter sequence ISSN. An ISBN barcode is rather more complicated, since it needs to have the OCR-A representation of the ISBN above the barcode itself. All ISBNs currently begin with the digits 978, but once all of the possible numbers using that prefix have been allocated they will begin with 979. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chills Posted July 21 Author Share Posted July 21 I know all that as I have both an ISSN and a series of ISBN's It would be nice if I could more easily drop them into APublisher documents without having to go to a 3rd party generator. 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...
Alfred Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 24 minutes ago, Chills said: I know all that For the avoidance of doubt, I didn’t think for a minute that you wouldn’t know! I was merely pointing out that (a) an ISSN/ISBN feature was never added to PagePlus and (b) an ISBN generator would require the presence of an OCR-A font. Serif’s ‘legacy’ applications were always bundled with a large selection of fonts, whereas the Affinity apps have only ever offered fonts as optional extras. Chills 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chills Posted July 21 Author Share Posted July 21 14 minutes ago, Alfred said: Serif’s ‘legacy’ applications were always bundled with a large selection of fonts, whereas the Affinity apps have only ever offered fonts as optional extras. Interesting, with the Canva buy out are you thinking that OCR-A font may be an optional [subscription] extra or that the barcode generator may be an optional [subscription] add on? Whilst that is the Canva model, I hope they, Canva, realize the reason why a lot of people came to Affinity from Adobe was to escape the subscription model. In any case there are a lot of free ISSN/ISBN bar code generators out there. I think It might be work my while generating, now, the barcode graphics for the other 95 unused ISBN's I have. 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...
Alfred Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 16 minutes ago, Chills said: Interesting, with the Canva buy out are you thinking that OCR-A font may be an optional [subscription] extra or that the barcode generator may be an optional [subscription] add on? Neither, actually! I was just making the observation that for Serif’s legacy software products you had to jump through hoops to avoid installing a bunch of fonts, whereas with the Affinity apps you need to go out of your way to install them (even if they’re available for free). Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chills Posted July 21 Author Share Posted July 21 41 minutes ago, Alfred said: an ISBN generator would require the presence of an OCR-A font. Serif’s ‘legacy’ applications were always bundled with a large selection of fonts, whereas the Affinity apps have only ever offered fonts as optional extras. Just looked and I have OCR-A installed. Though I can't remember when or why I installed it. It appears to be a 2002 Adobe font. Alfred 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...
Alfred Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 16 minutes ago, Chills said: Just looked and I have OCR-A installed. Though I can't remember when or why I installed it. It appears to be a 2002 Adobe font. I’ll just leave this here … Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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