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Product: LABELVIEW, CODESOFT

Version: LABELVIEW Gold and CODESOFT Enterprise

 

About Printing Log files

A printing Log file is a file that provides a record of the labels you have printed.

You define the content and file format of the Log file, as well as whether to include variables, and the date and time of printing.

Content for the Log file is generated automatically when printing starts. The data is captured in a text file that you can view with a text editor, table editor, or other program of your choice.

Creating a Printing Log file

1. Open a document that contains a few objects, or open a new document and add some objects to it.
 
2. On the Tools menu, click Log file...  

3. The Printing log file dialog box appears. Under Printing Log file, click On. NOTE: This turns the Log file on, so that when labels are printed, the information is recorded in the Log file. If you click Off, then no data is recorded in the Log file.

4. In the Name box, type a name for the Log file. The check box can also be used to have the document name match the log file name. Make sure to click on the  in order to save the printing log to a specific folder path.

NOTE: The Delete button erases the contents of the printing Log file.

                  

5. Click the Options tab, and review these options:

  • Printing Log file contents: Lists the data items you can select to include in the Log file.
  • Log each label: Logs each label to the printing Log file.
  • Date: Includes the date and time the labels were printed.

Click Define to select a date format.

  • Variables: Allows you select whether variables are included in the Log file:
    • Selected: Includes only those variables that have the
    • Include in the printing Log file check box selected. This option appears in the Output tab of the variable properties dialog box for each individual variable.
    • All: Includes all variables contained in the document.
    • None: No variables are included in the Log file.
  • File format: Allows you select the format of the Log file output:
    • Non-delimited text: Generates the Log file in table form with spaces as field separators. For best display, choose a non-proportional type (such as Courier).
    • Tab-delimited text: Generates the Log file with tabulations as field separators.
    • Comma-delimited text: Generates the Log file with commas as field separators.
6. Click OK to save your selections.

Generating and Viewing a Printing Log file

Log file content generation

Content is generated for the Log file—if it is turned on—every time you print labels. The content is cumulative; meaning that every time you print labels, the new print data is added to the Log file without deleting the data from the previous print job.​​​​​​​

1. Print a few labels. If a Log file has been created and turned on, content for the Log file is generated when labels are printed.
 
2. On the Tools menu, click Log file...

3. The Printing log file dialog box appears. In the Name box, type or browse for the name of the Log file.

4. In the Editor box, select the editor in which you want to display the Log file.

5. Click Edit. The editor appears displaying the contents of the Log file.

 

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