FOKUZA Posted October 29, 2018 Share Posted October 29, 2018 Hi all, I'm an happy user of Publisher (and Affinity Photo) What do you say about a barcode generation feature (QRCode for exemple) More and more publish use QRCode inside, and this feature will be nice for them (and me ) What do you think ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted October 29, 2018 Share Posted October 29, 2018 QRcode may be different, but you can generate barcodes simply by typing with a bar code font. There are a bunch of free ones floating around on the web if you do a search for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FOKUZA Posted October 29, 2018 Author Share Posted October 29, 2018 It's a feature for 2D Barcode (can't use a font for that ^^" ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helmar Posted November 9, 2018 Share Posted November 9, 2018 Bump. Especially EAN-13 codes for books. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 1 hour ago, Helmar said: EAN-13 codes This one you apparently *can* do with a font... a bunch of them show up in a quick search on Google. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helmar Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 On 11/10/2018 at 2:19 AM, fde101 said: This one you apparently *can* do with a font... a bunch of them show up in a quick search on Google. https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/732961/ean_13_17 Enjoy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KipV Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 I would love to see a plug-in like Barcode maker that is on InDesign. I would like to pass off some of my barcode work to non-designers at my company but it's hard to justify them buying a copy of ID and Barcode Maker just so that they can do this one function. I wonder if there is a good solution to do this in Word? That way they could use a program that they are very familiar with. Quote New Internet Book Project | Another New Website Project Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CmdrSpock Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 One of the reasons barcode generation software exists for even 1D barcodes is because many formats ("symbologies", as they're called) incorporate check digits, a sort of error correction feature. In a simple example, a six-digit barcode might encode some data that looks like XXXXXY. Only the first five digits are user-supplied data; Y is a check digit, calculated from XXXXX. Barcode readers use this for error correction. The reader knows how to calculate a check digit, so it can reject an inaccurate scan if the value it computes for Y doesn't match the value in the barcode. Technically, you can compute a check digit yourself and type it using one of those barcode fonts, but the font has no way of knowing whether or not what you typed is valid. (You can also hand-draw a barcode using lines of different thicknesses, if you really want to.) KipV 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Overington Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 1 hour ago, CmdrSpock said: Barcode readers use this for error correction. Maybe for detecting most errors but not necessarily for correcting them. William Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 Of course it would be nice, if there is a barcode generator in Publisher, but really necessary? There are so many online resources for free or small money or big money who could do better for all kind of barcodes and Serif has not to focus writing code on a new field / topic / function. E.g. https://barcode.tec-it.com/en https://zxing.appspot.com/generator/ https://www.qrcode-monkey.com/ just to name a few. Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KipV Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 5 hours ago, Joachim_L said: Of course it would be nice, if there is a barcode generator in Publisher, but really necessary? There are so many online resources for free or small money or big money who could do better for all kind of barcodes and Serif has not to focus writing code on a new field / topic / function. E.g. I wasn't thinking serif would do but a 3rd party. The ID one I was talking about is 3 party. Quark unfortunately doesn't have something like that which is surprising for how long it has been out. Quote New Internet Book Project | Another New Website Project Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 Solutions for this sort of thing do exist: http://www.iwinsoft.com/barcodemaker/ https://boxshot.com/barcode/ https://www.tec-it.com/en/software/selection/mac-barcode-generator-3/EntryPage3.aspx https://www.itsapparent.com/barcodeproducer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Overington Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 Well, Serif has some QR code generation in PagePlus X9, so maybe the code for doing it might be suitable for porting across to Affinity Publisher. Quote Until December 2022, using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 10 in England. From January 2023, using an HP laptop running Windows 11 in England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 1 hour ago, KipV said: I wasn't thinking serif would do but a 3rd party. The ID one I was talking about is 3 party. Quark unfortunately doesn't have something like that which is surprising for how long it has been out. You can create a QRCode in Q, but one at a time. I use an external application as when I do them, I generally need more than one. They are then merged. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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