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/

A new series of very short videos is on their way.. We started a week ago with a relative short video 25 minutes showing 3 different AutoCalc function,  last Friday, with a Data Styling video – approx 9 minutes, and next friday we will have a short video about Design Update.. After that video it’s planned to come with new short videos, with a limited, but specific content, once a week. Planned is also a video showing Update Data, including language shift on multiple layers.

Please let us know if you have suggestion for a coming video..

Many users has through the years ask for a search possibility for images used in catalogue production.. our answer has often been that it can take a while, searching through thousand of foldes and thousand of images. Very often, the data itself does not contains the full file name for image or the file path.
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The problem, the missing modification date
The demands InDesign has for images, has always been:
1) Access to the binary data, to be able to display the image.
2) Having information about modification date.
And a basic URL does not contain both these information, a file path does.
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One of the issues when updating a document with Cacidi Extreme, is that products removed or added in the data will not be deleted or removed. Normally the user will need to recreate the document from scratch, with one of the build functions. And if images are manually adjusted, we will loose those adjustments, and to redo them. And thank you Tiffany to point the issue to my attention.. Continue reading →

Now all our plugins are ready for Adobe InDesign 2021

Download the new version from our download page, install it, and the software will automatic copy the old preferences from the previous version.. so easy!.
Remember that it’s posible to keep your old InDesign, until you are comfortable to remove it.. – Use the Auto-Update, Advanced feature to keep the old InDesign version..

READ ALL ABOUT THE NEW FEATURES IN INDESIGN 2021 @CREATIVEPRO.COM