Seagull BarTender Edition Software Latest Features

Summary of Features Added with BarTender Version 8.0

Seagull Scientific's biggest software upgrade in years! The brand new "Enterprise Print Server" edition includes many powerful capabilities for integration and centralized printing. BarTender's user interface has been extensively upgraded in all editions and new printer drivers released. Powerful new centralized printing capabilities Use a single copy of the Enterprise Print Server edition installed on one server to process and distribute label printing requests from numerous users and software programs in a large enterprise. Output to any printer on a LAN, WAN and even internet printers. Licensed to support an unlimited number of users. Includes all features in Enterprise and RFID Enterprise. Exciting web printing capabilities from any browser With Seagull's brand new BarTender Web Print Server, you can use any web browser to scroll through preview images of your label formats. Simply "click" to print. Print to any network printer or properly setup internet printer. Print-time data prompts designed in BarTender are transmitted to your web client for proper display and data entry. Support for PDA's and pocket PCs for better mobility BarTender Web Print Server allows for small screen display and works with any operating system or hardware platform that can run a web browser. Significant XML enhancements accelerate integrations The Enterprise Print Server edition of BarTender and Commander deliver a variety of powerful new XML capabilities: BarTender XML Script is a new language optimized especially for easier, higher speed remote automation of BarTender. XML transforms using XSL style sheets simplify conversion of any external XML format into almost any data format, including BarTender XML Script. TCP/IP socket connectivity improves remote automation The Enterprise Print Server edition of the Commander integration utility now supports TCP/IP-based triggers and label data transmission. Major user-interface enhancements in all editions Print-time prompt dialogs now support list boxes and drop down lists. The Toolbox now supports "auto-hide", more advanced docking functions, and more convenient tool pane switching. Most toolbar icons have been upgraded to a more colorful, more 3D look, providing greater attractiveness and quicker user recognition. An even greater level of menu customization is now provided. Other new features New graphics library supports 70 additional graphics formats and provides better CMYK color handling for JPEG graphics. Enterprise Print Server makes print job verification (rather than simply job submission verification) available to ActiveX integrators.

Summary of Features Added with BarTender Version 7.7

Full-System Unicode Support Provides an Easier, More Powerful way to Read and Print International Characters. A single text object or data substring can contain text from multiple languages. Import data from databases in which the language varies from field to field and record to record. Print languages that are supported only by Unicode. Take advantage of printer-based Unicode fonts for high performance printing of labels with multiple languages.* Copy and paste text with multiple languages to and from other applications. Access files, printers and servers whose names, paths and network locations contain any international characters.* Read from databases that have international characters in the names of the server, database, user, password, tables and fields.* Improved support for Windows’ Input Method Editors for typing international characters. Print subscript and superscript characters. All Seagull Scientific software applications now support instant switching of the user-interface between international languages (including some situations that previously required a reboot). More Font Style Options Font Style Emulation lets you choose bold and italic font styles even with fonts that do not natively support these styles. Expanded Input and Output Data Encoding Options Several character encoding standards have been added: Unicode (UTF-16) Unicode (Big Endian) Unicode (UTF-8) Many language encodings This allows for more flexible database reading, BarTender job logging, E-mail messaging and printer code export. Improved Reading Order Support Benefit from greater control over the appearance of text that mixes right-to-left languages (such as Hebrew and Arabic) with left-to-right languages. Support for Micro QR Code This very dense 2D code is great for encoding more data and international characters in tight spaces. * This feature not available when used on Windows 98.

Summary of Features Added with Seagull 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

Summary of Features Added with Seagull BarTender 7.0

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

Summary of Features Added with Seagull BarTender 6.2

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/Open Type) 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 of 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 Seagull 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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