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BarTender's Latest Features
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Summary of Features Added with BarTender 7.0
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Streamlined Label Design
- Custom Component Library for easy re-use of fully customized label components
- Drag and drop creation of all objects, including lines, boxes, and graphics
- Drag and drop bar codes from expanded library of bar code formats
- One-degree rotation of boxes, lines, text, and graphics
- Industry stock database for quick selection of more than 2,500 pre-configured page settings - or customize and save settings for future use
- Hundreds of industrial graphic symbols for electrical indications, hazardous materials, textile care, and more
- Bearer bar support for the Interleaved 2-of-5 bar code symbology
Advanced Text Features
- On-screen editing of text
- Rich Text formatting with option of sourcing data to different parts of a label object
- Auto-scale text to fit the width of the text box
- User-definable tab support in text objects
- First line indent and hanging indent for paragraph text objects
- Inter-paragraph spacing
Time-Saving Print Preview
- Print Preview with external data sourcing displaying full-page image(s) of complete print job
Fast Database Configuration
- Drag and drop data linking of label objects to databases, VB scripts, system date/time, or pre-defined static values
Powerful Integration Capabilities
- E-mail Triggers added to Commander
- POP3 e-mail support added to messaging for all applications
- Improved user interface and System Service Interface for Commander
- Setup and run BarTender processes under specified user account using Commander
- Enterprise message handling in Commander displays, logs, and sends e-mail messages
Enhanced Support Options
- Redesigned on-line help system using HTML Help for all applications
- 100% language-translated in 20 languages with addition of Hungarian
- Installer updated including new on-line product registration feature
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Summary of Features Added with BarTender 6.2
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Label Design
- Auto-sizes text to fit inside a rectangle
- Exports objects and labels using 16 million or 256 colors
- "Typefaces by Type" option displays fonts in groups by type (i.e., device, TrueType/OpenType)
- Script drop-down control allows text to be displayed using its proper character set
- Supports font aliasing
Bar Codes
- Supports MicroPDF417
- Supports custom selection of start and stop characters in Regular and Full ASCII Code 3 of 9 and Codabar
- Supports TCIF Labeling Standards
Database Options
- Reads text files generated in other languages
- Reads "fixed width" fields in a text file
System
- Automatically e-mails any BarTender or Seagull License Server message to a user
- Auto fixes page set-up settings as needed when switching out printers
- Enhanced network installation
- Installation CD provides access to user manuals (now available in 19 languages), white papers, driver information and more
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Summary of Features Added with BarTender 6.1
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- New Enterprise and Basic Editions
- Direct Interface to SAP
- Password Protection
- Support Expanded to 20 More Languages
- Enterprise-Level Message Handling
- Maximum Windows Compatibility Using Microsoft's Latest
"Installer" Technology
- Additional Ready-to-Print Compliance Labels
- Enterprise Edition's Commander Integration Utility:
-Provides integration capabilities you trigger by simply creating
a data file
-Runs multiple instances of BarTender for faster printing
-Monitors multiple data sources simultaneously
-More powerful integration through execution of Java, Visual Basic
scripts or batch files
-Allows substitution of variables
-Operates as an NT/2000 service
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Summary of Features Added with BarTender 6.0
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At last, the kind of powerful, flexible data connectivity you'd expect to have to get from a dedicated reporting tool, such as "Crystal
Reports," instead of your label printing software.
Among the more powerful new features is simultaneous access to
multiple tables on different systems. So you can (for example) query an Oracle database on a Unix server, a dBase table on an NT server, and a straight text file on a local system – all at the same time.
There´s also a new Database Setup Wizard which brings a remarkable new simplicity to the task of specifying which database table(s) and
fields you need to access. And our ActiveX Automation interface has been expanded too. The new features include...
Database Features:
- Database Setup Wizard
- New Record Picking Capabilities
- Multiple Table Support
- Read Multiple Databases
- On-Screen Browse of Databases, Tables and Fields
- Read Field Name Headers from Text Files
- Custom Delimitation of Text Files
- Define Queries with Data Entry and Validation at Print Time
- User-Definability of Entire SQL Statements
Enhancements to BarTender´s ActiveX Automation Capabilities:
- Single ActiveX Call for Writing Data to BarTender Label Objects
- Access to New Database Features
- Extraction of Graphic Images of Labels
New Bar Code Symbology:
- Support for the "KIX" Postal Code
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Summary of Features Added with BarTender 5.4
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Version 5.40 marked the first release of our Professional Integrator edition, with new and more powerful capabilities for
running BarTender with other software, including:
- ActiveX Automation
- Data Detector
- Automated Printer Selection
- Print Job Logging
The four features listed above are available in the Professional Integrator edition only. 5.4 also added support for circular and arc
text to all editions of BarTender. (5.3 already supported circular text but had only been released internationally.)
Version 5.41, released in mid-January 1999, added support for the Maxicode 2D bar code symbology. (Click here for details.)
Version 5.42, released on May 25, 1999. Added support for QR Code and a number of international postal codes. A Character Entry
Assistant simplifies the typing in and bar coding of control characters and other special characters. Improved metric system settings.
Conversion from a view-only to a view and edit status bar. Additional sample compliance label formats for UPS shipping. Also adds the
ability to save out label designs to a format readable by older versions of BarTender. (Click here for details.)
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Summary of Features Added with BarTender 5.3
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5.3 was only released in "International" editions. Therefore circular and arc text were not released in the "domestic" (USA and Canada)
editions until version 5.4 (see below).
- Circular and Arc-Shaped Text
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Summary of Features Added with BarTender 5.2
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- Data Validation & Error Checking
- Easier, More Flexible Data Sourcing
- Min & Max String Length Functions
- Improved, Easier VB Scripting
- Data Trimming/Truncation Functions
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Summary of Features Added with BarTender 5.1
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- User-Designable Data Entry Forms
- Data-Sourced Graphics
- Support for Visual Basic Script
- New Types of Serialization
- Prompting for all Data Source Types
- Print Wizard
- White on Black Printing
- Status Bar
- Improved Font WYSIWYG
- Non-Printing Label Objects
- Automatic Restart of Print Jobs
- Comments for Label Objects
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Summary of Features Added with BarTender 5.0
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- True 32-bit Windows Application
- Real-time Onscreen Resizing
- Faster Design and Printing
- 32-Bit ODBC Database Support
- Unlimited Undo/Redo Command
- Object Oriented Data Field Setup
- More Powerful, Easier Page Setup
- Multiple Concurrent Design Sessions
- Right-Button Menus Simplify Tasks
- Easier Cut and Paste Between Labels
- Tool Bars Can Be Moved/Reshaped
- Thumbnail Previews of Saved Labels
- Tool "Tips" Provide Instant Hints
- Tracking of Laser Label Start Position
- Three Tool Bars Instead Of One
- Hundreds of New Help System Links
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