Barcode Producer 26.1 (521)

New

• macOS Liquid Glass icon.
• macOS New menu icons, updated Window menu, other menu tweaks.
• Support for Canva's new Affinity app

Improvements

• Larger, higher quality previews.
• macOS 20X speedup in preview scene rendering.
• UI/UX tweaks in Account & Software Activation window for clarity.
• Windows Remove unnecessary restart in installer.
• Magazine-related preview scenes are now shown for the ISSN symbology.
• Updated in-app screenshots to reflect view mode controls in symbology editors.

Fixed

• Fixed cases where the human-readable text of a GS1 element string would not reflect changes to the value.
• Restored ability to reorder element strings for GS1-128, DataBar Expanded, and DataBar Expanded Stacked.
• Windows Fixed software update framework.
• Fixed initial format selection of GS1-128 Coupon (Obsolete) editor.
• View menu now reflects currently-selected view mode.
• Fixed "What's New" menu item not showing changes.
• Fixed internal tracking of version history for UI purposes.

Barcode Producer 26 (516)

New

• Symbology Guide: Completely rewritten with modern tile-based layout, descriptions, enhanced previews, and comprehensive search.
• Revolutionary barcode previews in physical scenes: Barcode previews dynamically generated in over 80 scenes containing real-world objects such as books, boxes, retail packaging, papers, produce, medicine, signage, and more.
• Sketch, Figma, and Affinity Designer support
• Dark mode support including new Checkerboard Dark and Checkerboard System barcode preview background options.
• New font engine for improved font handling and PostScript identification.
• New Automator engine with threading, TSV import support, and merge fields for custom text objects.
• Automatic PostScript kerning: New option in Text settings to use metric kerning information to improve the character positioning, including ligature pairs, in EPS/PDF output.
• macOS Apple Silicon support: Universal 2 binary for Intel and Apple Silicon architectures.
• PNG output format
• Welcome & What's New windows: Stay up-to-date with the latest developments.
• macOS EPS toolbar button to quickly drag out EPS content.
• Demo preview window to preview the value substitution that will take place when unlicensed.

New Symbologies

• PDF417
• Data Matrix
• DataBar symbologies now included:
  • DataBar Expanded
  • DataBar Expanded Stacked
  • DataBar Omnidirectional
  • DataBar Stacked Omnidirectional
  • DataBar Limited
  • DataBar Stacked
  • DataBar Truncated
• Windows QR Code (previously Mac-only)

Improved

• Modernized UI including toolbars, button style, and list style.
• New app icon including proper style on macOS Tahoe.
• Finishing border color can now be customized.
• Added custom text object options for side, justification, and flip.
• Updated GS1 Application Identifier metadata, added comprehensive format validation.
• ISSN symbology now supports 5-digit add-on values.
• Hold down option key while saving to quickly save to the desktop.
• macOS Added standard Window menu.
• macOS Improved PDF support.

Other

• Compiler optimizations for performance.
• Updated preferences storage to defaults on macOS, JSON on Windows.
• Updated API and frameworks.
• Removed deprecated tools.
• Over 1000 internal improvements.