Saving Database Labels

Legacy Poster

• December 09, 2014 08:30

Hello everybody,

 

Let me paint the picture of our situation before I start with my question.

 

We are currently switching our label printing software from Prisym to Bartender Professional.

We have a database of over 700 designs on 4 different sizes of labels that we will have to transfer to be used with Bartender.

Entering all these different labels by hand would be very laborious and we are looking for ways to speed this process up.

 

I've found the option to use an excel file as a database to import all our data into bartender.

This way I can enter all the data I need in the different text objects in one label on the same line in excel.

This grouping of the data works fine, but I can only see the outcome when I print.

 

The solution I'm going for is one where I can upload my database and save all the different designs in separate files.

 

Is this possible working with a database?

Is there another way to import a big amount of designs that can be saved into separate files?

 

Or am I doomed to enter all the designs we need in bartender by hand?

 

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  Shotaro Ito

  ★ BarTender Hero ★

  • December 15, 2014 07:21

  If the label comes with some common part, you can use database connection to print various values with the same layout.

  Modify layout is somewhat difficult as:

  - BarTender Professional doesn't support dynamic layout feature such as Conditional print of objects, layers, templates and modify object property (position, font etc) from VB Script. You need Automation edition for that.

  - BarTender's not designed to automatically create layouts from given data. It's designed to quickly create / modify label design by hand.

   

  With that in mind, when data is given from database field, if you don't give a value (leave the field empty), the text won't be printed. So by giving data or not, you can modify some layouts.

   

  There's HTML text object in BarTender 10.1, which you can use external text file or database fields as datasource.

  You can design labels by HTML. However do not expert full support of HTML5 set like web browser - it would be mainly used for table layouts, make bold / underlined of texts etc.

   

  However... I would try keep label design as simple as possible, especially when you're working with BarTender first time.

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