Lately, we’ve made some updates to Cacidi BarCodes that may affect your production process. Please read the following carefully.

If your catalog contains barcodes created between November 2011 and November 2018, the barcode color might change from the expected black to paper (or white) when upgrading to the latest version of Cacidi BarCodes (version 19.0.5) for InDesign 2024.

Why is this happening?
When we created the 2011 version, barcode color customization wasn’t available. Every reference we checked indicated that barcodes should be black, so we hardcoded black as the barcode color without realizing that the barcode container had a default paper color applied.

In the 2018 version, we added the option for users to change the barcode color. We then discovered that the container was defaulting to paper, so we set the color of new barcode containers to default to black. However, older containers retained a hardcoded black color, preventing the option to apply the paper color to barcodes.

What have we done to correct this?
Firstly, we removed the automatic override from paper to black, so barcodes can now be displayed in paper (or white) color. Additionally, we created a script to change all barcodes in a catalog to black, ensuring consistent correction across the entire document.

To ease the change for customers with a huge stock of documents, we have made some scripts that can be handy.. The “ConvertWhiteBarCodes.jsx” can auto change old barcodes from white to black, when opening the document. The script should be copied  to the Application/Adobe InDesign 2025/Scripts/startup scripts/