BarTender Software's Latest Features

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

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

Bar Code Symbologies:
- Reduced Space Symbology (RSS)
- EAN.UCC Composite
- Aztec
- Telepen
Printer Code Template generation
Auto sizing for text objects with multiple fonts
Ordering database query prompts
New VB Script Functions and Objects
White Papers
Using Foreign Text on BarTender Labels
Commander Examples
New Sample Formats

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 Software processes under specified user account using Commander
Enterprise message handling in Commander displays, logs, and sends e-mail messages