You can scroll down through this HTML-based web page to view a general overview
of BarTender, even if you have a slow dial-up internet connection. It includes
screen shots, diagrams, charts and explanatory text. For a more-detailed
full-motion introduction, run the Animated
Tutorial. There are also pages dedicated to
a complete list of features and specifications and our
very latest feature additions.
Easy to Learn, Easy to Use
With BarTender, a few quick mouse motions are all it takes to combine bar codes,
text and graphics into professional quality labels. You can even encode RFID
tags. And moving and resizing objects on your labels is as easy as 1, 2, 3.
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1) Simply click on a label object to select it.
2) Drag it to a new position with a quick, easy mouse movement.
3) Stretch objects just as easily.
And customizing is easy too, with carefully organized menus and "pop-up" dialogs
that display even the most advanced options in plain, easy-to-understand words.
And, with the industry's most powerful Undo command, even beginners never have
to worry about mistakes. And advanced users still have all the power they'll
ever need. (For more details on designing labels, view our
sample design session.)
Exceptional Design Flexibility
BarTender gives you total control over your label's appearance, including the
type and size of text, bar codes and graphics. Place objects exactly where you
want them and control rotation as precisely as 1/10th of a degree. You're
limited only by your imagination.
Smartly organized dialogs offer numerous
options, while keeping things simple.
Latest Windows Technology
Strict adherence to Microsoft's official user-interface guidelines, means if
you've used just one other Windows program you're ready to start designing
labels.
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"Tool tips" offer quick hints, and each of the
tool bars can be moved
away from its normal screen-edge position and reshaped as desired.
Modify and print multiple label designs.
High Precision On-Screen Display
BarTender's design mode gives you an extraordinarily accurate "real-time" view
of your label. There is also a Print Preview mode that even reads your external
data sources, so it can display exactly how your labels are going to look before
you print them. That means you can design more quickly without wasting labels.
Print Preview with external data sourcing
reduces wasted labels.
Designer Typefaces, Even on Thermal Printers
BarTender and Seagull's printer drivers offer an extraordinary variety of font
capabilities. Use printer fonts for maximum speed and Windows fonts for the
most flexible styling. Many printer drivers now even support font downloading
for an optimum combination of font variety and printing performance.
"Instant" Bar Codes
BarTender's toolbox gives you instant access to an extensive set of predefined
bar code components. "Drag and drop" bar codes into your label designs using a
single, quick mouse motion. Use our predefined components "as is" or customize
as desired.
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Create bar codes with a quick "drag and drop"
motion.
Rich Text with Data Sourcing
"Rich Text" allows individual text objects to contain multiple typefaces (Times,
Arial, etc.) and styles (bold, italic, etc.). BarTender raises the power of
rich text to a whole new level by allowing you to source the different parts of
a rich text object with external data fields. For example, you might use one
font style for some static text and use other styles for some of you changing
text.
Rich text and Unicode support provide
incredible text
formatting flexibility, even for externally-sourced data.
Import and Export Graphics
It's easy to add company logos and pictures of products. BarTender supports most
major graphic formats. You can also export bar codes for use in other software
packages.
Bar code exported from BarTender into Adobe
Illustrator.
Advanced, Customizable Serialization
Generate anything from the simplest serial numbers to the most advanced, totally
custom serialization sequences. Increment or decrement by any interval and
specify any rollover threshold and restart value. Choose from numeric, alpha,
or a variety of predefined alphanumeric character sets. Even specify your own
totally custom sequences.
Compliance Labels and Ready-to-Print Formats
Sometimes a customer or outside agency demands a particular label design.
"Compliance" with such external specifications can be challenging, especially
if it requires something your label software just can't do. Maybe one of our
numerous predesigned label formats is all you need. We've familiarized
ourselves with numerous commonly used standards in order to build BarTender
into the most full-featured compliance-labeling tool available. Whether you're
using one of our many ready-to-print formats, or designing labels from scratch,
BarTender has the power and flexibility you need for thousands of compliance
label standards.
Industrial Symbol Libraries
Need one or more special graphics or symbols on your labels? BarTender gives you
easy access to hundreds of high-quality, scalable symbols, saving you the
trouble of researching and drawing them yourself. Choose from categories such
as electrical, hazardous material, packaging, and more.
BarTender comes with hundreds of ready-to-use
symbols.
Custom Data-Entry Forms
Sometimes you won't know some of your label data until the last second, for
example when a product comes off an assembly line or is about to ship.
Fortunately, BarTender's customizable, pop-up "Prompt Dialogs" make it easy to
enter data at print time. Since designing prompt dialogs is almost exactly like
designing labels, they are easy to set up. You can even lock BarTender into
continuous prompt mode, allowing you to automatically launch print job after
print job by simply filling in the empty data fields.
Password Protection
Sometimes it's critical to ensure that your users can't modify your label
designs. Whether the change is accidental, well intentioned, or malicious, even
the slightest repositioning of bar codes or text objects can take a label out
of compliance. Fortunately, Password Protection makes it easy to lock BarTender
into a "print only" mode that prevents unauthorized alteration of the label.
Add Your Own Features Using Visual Basic Script
Special data-processing requirements sometimes arise, such as wanting to
conditionally combine certain fields or use only part of a field. You may even
want to evaluate an equation. BarTender's Visual Basic "Scripting Assistant"
helps even non-programmers meet a wide variety of advanced data-processing and
other custom challenges.
Remarkable Printer Support
In addition to the hundreds of laser, ink-jet and dot-matrix printers already
supported by Windows, we've created our own true
Windows drivers for numerous numerous
industrial quality label printers. And our drivers can be used by all
your Windows programs.
Unsurpassed Data Input Capabilities
BarTender can accept label data from a truly remarkable variety of sources:
Much More Detailed Information Available
This was only a quick introduction to label design and printing with BarTender.
For a wealth of additional information, including details on integration with
other software and a self-running, automatic demonstration, please visit the
Getting Better All the Time!
Although we're excited about the skyrocketing popularity of BarTender, we
continue to work hard every day to make it even better. Our development staff
is hard at work adding new features to BarTender all the time. Here쨈s a list of
some of the Latest BarTender Features.
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