Barcode Producer: Enable "Save as PDF" on macOS

Barcode Producer offers the format option of saving barcodes as PDF files on macOS – to do so, you'll need to install an open-source, third-party tool called Ghostscript on your Mac.

Of note, creating PDF files for barcode artwork is something that we offer by popular demand – we'd typically suggest not creating PDFs out of your barcodes if you intend to place them in a larger artwork file. An EPS file is much more suitable for this purpose – a PDF is just a container for Barcode Producer's EPS file. That said, using a PDF is fine if it suits your workflow.

To install the Ghostscript helper tool

  1. Install Homebrew, a package management tool for installing open source software: https://brew.sh (use the command line command provided, or the .pkg installer)
  2. Install Ghostscript using this Terminal command: brew install ghostscript
  3. Select Save > Save as PDF in Barcode Producer. If Barcode Producer sees you've installed Ghostscript and its PostScript to PDF command (ps2pdf), it will prompt the installed tool to create a PDF of your barcode from Barcode Producer's native vector EPS output.
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Barcode Producer: Enable "Save as PDF" on macOS

Barcode Producer offers the format option of saving barcodes as PDF files on macOS – to do so, you'll need to install an open-source, third-party tool called Ghostscript on your Mac.

Of note, creating PDF files for barcode artwork is something that we offer by popular demand – we'd typically suggest not creating PDFs out of your barcodes if you intend to place them in a larger artwork file. An EPS file is much more suitable for this purpose – a PDF is just a container for Barcode Producer's EPS file. That said, using a PDF is fine if it suits your workflow.

To install the Ghostscript helper tool

  1. Install Homebrew, a package management tool for installing open source software: https://brew.sh (use the command line command provided, or the .pkg installer)
  2. Install Ghostscript using this Terminal command: brew install ghostscript
  3. Select Save > Save as PDF in Barcode Producer. If Barcode Producer sees you've installed Ghostscript and its PostScript to PDF command (ps2pdf), it will prompt the installed tool to create a PDF of your barcode from Barcode Producer's native vector EPS output.

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