New Features in BarTender Version 7.5

Easier User Interface

• New wizards speed beginners through label setup
  • Starting a new label design
  • Choosing the right label stock, label rows, columns, margins, etc.
  • Users can still choose manual label setup if preferred
• Wizards for power users too
  • A simpler way to combine bar code data from multiple data sources
  • Easy organizing and processing of EAN.UCC Application Identifiers.
  • Simpler data “substring” management.
• Quickly preview and print label designs without opening formats
  • More detailed thumbnail preview provided by BarTender
  • Detailed thumbnail views now also available in Windows Explorer
  • Quickly print a format by right-clicking its previewed image, and selecting “print.”
  • “Auto-completion” for filenames typed into dialog boxes

Enhanced Database Connectivity

• OLE DB data sources now supported. (ODBC still supported.)
• New wizard simplifies connecting to a database

New Software Activation

• Online activation—provides an easy, secure way to authenticate software licenses.
• No more hardware keys for Enterprise Edition

User-definable Background Images

• Specify a background label image to appear “behind” your label design
• Also add a background color
• Automatically “bleed” backgrounds beyond label edges to ensure full coverage in case of label slippage or poor printer registration

Support for Printer Clocks

• Time and date stamps can now be read from the printer’s real time clock
• Existing use of computer’s clock still supported