Help & About
Quick guidance for generating, validating, saving and exporting barcodes in Barcode Studio.
What Barcode Studio does
Barcode Studio generates barcodes from values you provide. It supports ISBN 13, ISBN 13 + 5 digits, UPC-A, EAN-8, Code 128, QR Code, ISSN and ISMN, with SVG, vector PDF, PNG and JPEG export.
Barcode Studio does not assign or issue ISBNs. For ISBN work, enter the complete ISBN-13 assigned to the publication.
ISBN 13 and ISBN 13 + 5
ISBN 13 generates the standard EAN-13 ISBN barcode. The visible price label is optional and is not encoded into the ISBN barcode.
ISBN 13 + 5 digits adds an EAN-5 price supplement. The supplement is derived automatically from Currency and Price.
Encoded EAN-5 pricing currently supports GBP, USD, CAD, AUD and NZD, with prices from 0.00 to 99.99. Display-only price labels can use the additional currencies shown in the generator.
Validation & print quality
The generator validates barcode structure and ISBN-13 check digits before export. The pre-export quality panel also highlights dimensions, DPI and other print-readiness considerations.
The quality panel is an advisory preflight. For production printing, especially high-volume commercial use, final artwork should still be tested with appropriate scanning or verification equipment.
Saved projects
Saving is optional. Title, Author and Publisher are project metadata that make saved work easier to identify and search; they do not alter the generated barcode.
Saved-project search only searches projects stored in this Barcode Studio database. It does not search ISBN agencies, publishers or online book databases.
Batch CSV / Excel generation
Use Batch Generation when you need several ISBN barcodes at once. Upload a .csv or .xlsx file, validate the rows, review errors, choose the final export settings and generate the valid rows as a ZIP.
| Column | ISBN 13 | ISBN 13 + 5 | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISBN | Required | Required | Complete ISBN-13 value |
| Currency | Required only when visible price is enabled | Required | Price currency |
| Price | Required only when visible price is enabled | Required | Visible price / EAN-5 source |
| Title | Optional | Optional | Reference metadata |
| Author | Optional | Optional | Reference metadata |
| Publisher | Optional | Optional | Reference metadata |
Export formats
SVG and Vector PDF are best when the barcode will be placed into print artwork and needs to scale cleanly. PNG and JPEG are raster formats and use the selected DPI.
For print work, prefer SVG or vector PDF whenever the downstream design application supports them.
Online book lookup
The optional lookup can populate book metadata when the external service has a matching record. Lookup results are convenience data only and should be verified before saving or publishing.
Data & backups
Saved projects, presets and export history are stored in the local SQLite database. Database schema updates now use EF Core migrations. Before a pending migration is applied to an existing database, Barcode Studio automatically creates a local backup and retains the five most recent migration backups.
Backups are stored under Data\Backups. Batch upload working files are stored temporarily under Data\BatchUploads.