Help & FAQs
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Getting started
Creating barcodes
Design & customization
Production & prepress
Saving, printing & export
Automation & data merge
- Can Barcode Producer connect directly to my database?
- Can I specify a different filename for the images when running Automator?
- How do I buy the Automator Plug-in?
- How do I create a batch of barcodes?
- How do I import a batch of barcodes into Adobe InDesign?
- How do I import an Excel spreadsheet?
- What is Barcode Producer’s Automator Plug-In and how do you use It?
Standards & testing
- Are there quality guarantees with Barcode Producer?
- How do I set and calculate Bar Width Adjustment (a.k.a. BWR)?
- How do I test my barcodes?
- The OCR text underneath the barcode is touching the bars
- Troubleshooting unscannable and unreliable barcodes
- Why are my barcodes receiving less than an "A" grade from a testing device?
Reporting
Frequently asked questions
- "Barcode Producer is not optimized for your Mac" error
- Barcode Producer: Save as PDF and Send to Preview on macOS Sonoma
- Can I change the color of my barcode?
- Can I make templates of frequently created barcodes?
- Can you help me use Illustrator, Photoshop, Word, or other apps?
- Do I need any fonts to save barcodes?
- Do you have sample barcode images available?
- How can I fix a crash on launch?
- How can I fix an Exception Error?
- How do I adjust the height of a barcode?
- How do I change units of measure?
- How do I make barcodes smaller than the minimum size?
- How do I make my barcode a specific size?
- How do I use barcodes saved in PDF format?
- What kind of barcode should I use?
- What kind of barcodes can I make?
- What software does Barcode Producer work with?
- When will ________ feature or improvement be available?
- Why does Barcode Producer activate my fonts in Suitcase?
- Why does the Illustrator or Photoshop button open a different app?
- Why is the last digit of my retail barcode wrong?
- Working with label printers
Buying & licensing
- How do I buy a plug-in when I already own Barcode Producer?
- How do I download and activate Barcode Producer?
- How do I download plug-ins?
- How do I move my license to a new machine?
- How does Barcode Producer licensing work?
- How to buy Barcode Producer
- I lost my Barcode Producer activation code.
- Is there a demo version of Barcode Producer available?
- Need a formal invoice or quotation?
- Why isn't my activation code working?