BarTender v9.0 Service Releases
Overview
The free Service Release at the bottom of this page can only be used to update
existing copies of BarTender where the version number begins with 9.0.
If your BarTender software is older than version 9.0:
BarTender 9.01 (Service Release 2)
BarTender 9.0 (build 2476) was first released on September 9th, 2008. This was
our largest release in more than 10 years, including the introduction of three
brand new applications. Although it was also our most heavily-tested release
ever, a few problems did get reported from the field. The first issue described
here was significant enough that we increased the version number from 9.0 to
9.01 when publishing Service Release 2 (SR2) on September 30th, 2008.
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Improper Reading of Blank Database Fields: When reading
database records using an OLE DB database connection, BarTender was not
properly reading blank database fields. Instead of correctly filling the
associated object on the label with the blank data, the most-recently read
non-blank value for the field was improperly reused. This could result in
incorrect data being printed on a label. This problem does not
extend to the reading of label data using ODBC and from text files.
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".Net" Exception Error: This issue is mostly cosmetic and does
not occur on Windows installations that are running English as the default
language. On non-English Windows installations, if the Tools,
General Options dialog was opened in the History Explorer or
Reprint Console applications, the "Language" option would initially start out
blank. Unless this option was then manually set to "English," pressing the Ok
button would cause a non-fatal .Net exception error. Pressing "Continue"
allowed the application to continue without trouble. Pressing "Abort" caused
the application to exit (without data loss). (The international translations
for History Explorer, Reprint Console and Printer Maestro will become available
and be downloadable for free as part of a Service Release scheduled for
November 2008.)
Issues #3 and #4 below were first resolved with the publication of an unannounced
service release (build 2486) on September 18, 2008. This was our first
service release for BarTender version 9.0x and was therefore designated SR1..
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XML Script:
If Commander received a "BarTender XML Script" trigger event, Commander would
display an error message that begins: "Error 0 - The BarTender XML Script
Command cannot execute..." and ends with "...registered BarTender version is
900." Because Commander was reading BarTender's version number incorrectly, it
would not forward the XML Script to BarTender. (BarTender would have read the
script just fine.)
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Removal of "Formats" Folder: Execution of an in-place upgrade
of BarTender would remove and recreate the "BarTender" folder within the
Windows "My Documents" folder. This would therefore also remove the "Formats"
sub-folder and any label formats located inside of it. The BarTender
installation program was corrected so that the "Formats" sub-folder is no
longer removed during an in-place upgrade.
BarTender 9.01 (SR3) includes SDKs and Updated Translations
Build 2524 of BarTender 9.01 was first released on November 13th, 2008 and was
designated Service Release 3 (SR3). Changes include:
Updated Language Translation: Versoin 9.0 of
the Bartender Label Management Suite was released with English-only display of
the user-interface for all newly-added features and applications. Now,
with the release of SR3, these new features can display in any of the 23
languages supported by BarTender.
.NET SDKs for BarTender: SR3 includes
the new ".NET Print" and ".NET Print Server" software development kits.
Now, C# and VB.NET developers can programmatically control BarTender from
within other applications more easily than ever before. For more
information, please see the
BarTender .NET SDK white paper. (To install now, download a "Full
BarTender Suite" and select the "Custom" install option.)
Minor Bugs: A number of very minor
bugs were fixed with SR3 and are not described on this web site.
Installation Instructions
Starting with BarTender 9.0, the update instructions became simpler than they
were for older versions of BarTender. After downloading the latest
BarTender 9.0x service release:
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If you Already Installed a Version of BarTender 9.0x: Do not
bother to remove your old software. Simply, install the BarTender 9.01
Service Release over your existing installation of BarTender 9.0. You will
not
be prompted to re-enter your original Product Key Code (PKC).
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If you Never Installed BarTender 9.0: Simply perform a new
install of your downloaded BarTender 9.01. When prompted for a Product Key Code
(PKC), provide the one that came with your original copy of BarTender 9.0.
Download
All download options listed below have everything you need to start designing
labels right away. The "BarTender only" option is the smallest file and will
therefore download the fastest. The larger "Full BarTender Suite" downloads
include Commander, Printer Maestro, History Explorer, the Reprint Console, and
support for detailed Print Job Logging to a SQL database. They also include the
BarTender .NET SDKs.
The multilingual downloads support instant switching of the user-interface
between more than 20 languages, but they take somewhat longer to download than
English only. (The supported languages can be seen in the list of
BarTender "Getting Started" Manuals.)
If you are updating an Enterprise installation, you
will also want to update Seagull License server. (This is not needed for Basic
and Professional editions.)
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