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Working with Pictures
Place pictures on the label
Imagescanbevarioussizes.Iftheoriginalsizeofthegraphicsisnotvalidforyourlabel,youcan
freelyresizetheimagebydraggingthehandlessurroundingit.Theimagecanberesizedpro-
portionallyorstretchedinbothdirections.
Thegraphicsobjectscanalsobeplacedonthelabelfromtheclipboardorimportedfromanother
applications(i.e.CorelDraw,scanningprograms...),usingeithertheInsertObjectorPastecom-
mandfromtheEditmenu.Inthiscase,thegraphicsisembeddedinthelabelfile.Thegraphicsis
entirelystoredinthelabelfile,notseparatelyontheharddisk.
Note:WhenyouinsertthegraphicsasOLEobjectonthelabel(copy/pastefromothersoftware),the
entiredesignenvironmentofthatothersoftwareisavailableinlabeldesign.Whenyoudoubleclick
suchOLEobject,thatotherapplicationopensonthelabel.WhenusingOLEobject,thelabelproc-
essingmightbeslower.AlabelalsooccupiesmorespaceonthediskandtakesmoreRAM.Ifpos-
sible,avoidusingOLEobjectsonthelabel.
Working with Variable Data
Dynamic Data Overview
Youmaywanttoprintlabelsonwhichthedatachangesforeachlabel,forexample,counter,serial
numbers,dateandtime.Toaccommodatethechangingdata,theapplicationcaneasilybeusedtofor-
matlabelsusingthevariablefields.Variablefieldcanbeusedwithtextandgraphicsobjects.
Thereareseveraltypesofvariablesyoucanchoosetobestsuityourneeds.Data,whichmustbe
printedasavariable,ispreparedatthetimeofprinting.Itcanbeenteredintheprogramfromdif-
ferentways:
l bytheoperatorfromthekeyboard
l automaticallyfromthecomputer’sclock(dateandtime)
l automaticallyfromthelabeldesign(usingcounterswithpredefinedstartingvaluesand
steps)
l databasecanbeusedtoprovidedataforthefields
Thevariabledatacanbethesameformanylabelsand/orspecificforonelabelonly.
Working with Databases
Thelabelingsoftwareallowsyoutousedatabases,inwhichyourdataisstored.Databasetypecan
be:
1. ASCII(textfile)wherefieldsarefixed-lengthorareseparatedwithanyselectedchar-
acter.
2. MicrosoftExceldatabase.
Youcanuseasingledatabaseonthesamelabel.
Databaseisveryusefulwhenprintinglabelswithalargequantityofdifferentdataandvariable
values.Youdon'thavetoentervaluesforeveryvariablebeforelabelproductionanymore,youcan
usepreviouslyprepareddatabaseinstead.DatabaseintheASCIItextfilecanbecreatedinanytext
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