This section shows you how easy it is to upgrade to BarTender v9.0. Further down this page it will discusses some of the most notable features and capabilities of BarTender. It includes screen shots, diagrams, charts and explanatory text. You can also view the complete list of all features and specifications, as well as a separate page highlighting our very latest feature additions.

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.

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.

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.

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..

"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.

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.

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.

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.

Create bar codes with a quick "drag and drop" motion.

"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.

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®.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

BarTender can accept label data from a truly remarkable variety of sources:

• Keyboard data entered in advance or at print time.
  
• Automatically serialized data strings.
  
• Automatic time and date values.
  
• Four different text file formats.
  
• ODBC and OLE-DB data sources, including most databases and spreadsheets. (Advanced data reporting capabilities include SQL Select statements and Query by Example.)
  
• Direct input from SAP IDocs.
  
• Oracle and other XML sources.

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

• BarTender Offical Website