Redistribution of Existing BarTender Features

With the release of BarTender Version 7.75, some options for command line parameter control have been moved from the Professional edition to the Enterprise edition. At the same time, some features previously available only in Professional and Enterprise are now also available in the Basic edition.

Some Features for Command Line Control Moved to Enterprise

With the release of BarTender 7.75, a number of command line parameter functions that are critical to Enterprise-level integration have been discontinued in the Professional edition and retained in the Enterprise editions only. This was done to better differentiate between the Professional and Enterprise software editions, as well as because integration-level technical support is more time-consuming than other types of support.

Click here for more details on command line parameter changes.

Keep in mind that the Enterprise editions of BarTender provide a rich variety of options for automated control from other software. This includes ActiveX Automation for control by other Windows programs, as well as our Commander utility, which makes BarTender controllable from non-Windows programs.  Almost all experienced software integrators prefer the power and flexibility of these two integration techniques instead of using command line parameters.

Former "Professional" Features Now Available in Basic Edition

With the release of BarTender version 7.75, some design capabilities previously available only in the Professional and Enterprise editions are now available in the Basic edition as well. These include:

• 2D bar codes – All two-dimensional bar codes supported by BarTender are now available in Basic.
• Date and Time data sources – The time and date data sources available in higher editions are now available in Basic.
• Selected features from the “More Options” property pages of the main Object Properties dialog are now available in Basic:
  • Automatic Alphabetic or Numeric Serialization – BarTender automatically senses at print-time whether the initial characters in the data to be serialized are numeric or alphabetic and maintains compatibility with that character set. (That is, if the characters to be serialized start out as numeric, the serialized data will continue to be numeric and, if the characters to be serialized start out as alphabetic, the serialized data will continue to be alphabetic.)
  • Limited Prompting – The Basic edition now allows you to prompt at print time for label object data. However, not all Prompt dialog design features are provided. The Basic edition allows you to rearrange prompt fields, but it does not let you augment your prompt dialogs with supplemental objects such as lines, group boxes and additional text. For full prompt design capability, use the Professional or Enterprise editions.
  • Minimum/Maximum settings – The Basic edition now lets you specify the minimum and maximum number of characters allowed for a label object. (This includes padding support when insufficient characters are provided.)