However, as Jerry Whiting (king of barcodes and owner of Azalea) has said repeatedly, barcodes are tricky little things. I have also seen several free barcode fonts on the Web, and other shareware-type tools. These are based on fonts that look like barcode lines. And, of course, no discussion of barcodes would be complete without a mention of Azalea’s Barcode Software and Fonts, which works in many different programs.
First you generate a batch of barcodes as a separate process outside of InDesign, then use Data Merge to merge in each barcode image file. Teacup does work with Data Merge, though a bit indirectly.
However, you can unembed the barcodes if you want (by selecting Unembed from the Links menu) and then place them in any other program that can read EPS (Illustrator, Photoshop, or whatever). That means you don’t have to keep track of external graphics files. One of the other things that’s kind of cool about Barcode Maker is that the results (the barcodes) are actually EPS files that get embedded in the document. It’s also scriptable, so it’s good for an automated workflow where you need to build these quickly. It’s easy to use (it’s based on the same underlying plug-in as the free PatternMaker plug-in, I supposed because barcodes are a kind of pattern), and it handles over 50 barcodes-including EAN, PostNet, UPC-A, UPC-E, KIX, ISBN, ISSN, and more. There are actually a number of third-party solutions for barcodes these days, but the only one that I have personal experience with is Barcode Maker from Teacup Software.
BARCODE PRODUCER MAC DATA MERGE HOW TO
wrote in recently asking how to make barcodes in InDesign.
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