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Product: LABELVIEW, CODESOFT

Version: All Versions

 

THE APPLICATION WINDOW

  • Title Bar: Displays the product name. If you have a document open, the name of the document also appears here.
  • Menu Bar: Provides menus and commands for the document management, editing, and display functions.
  • Status Bar: Displays the printer driver that is loaded and the port through which the data will be sent. It also displays instructions and information for performing a task.

THE DOCUMENT WINDOW 
The Document window occupies the left pane of the application window, and provides the frame in which documents are displayed. Upon startup, LABELVIEW/CODESOFT displays an open, untitled document in the Document window. This window acts the same as any other window: it can be moved, expanded, and closed using the buttons in the upper right corner. The Document window displays the label, graduated rulers and scroll bars for positioning and viewing the label, and a rotation button for changing the orientation for its view. It also provides a non-printable area for inserting comments and objects you do not want to print.

NOTE: Right-click in the Document window to display a context menu of commonly used commands.

  • Rotation Button: Flips the displayed label format 90, 180, 270, and 360 degrees. The on-screen rotation has no effect on printing; it only affects how the label appears on your screen.
  • Graduated Rulers: Help you position fields in a label. Rulers appear in the currently selected units of measure (inches or millimeters). The height and width of the label are relative to how it appears on your screen, not to the way it will be printed.
    • NOTE: Double-click on the right half of the horizontal ruler to increase the displayed scale; double-click on the left half of the horizontal ruler to decrease the displayed scale. Double-click on the vertical ruler to display the Grid tab of the Options dialog box.
  • Data Sources Window: Displays data sources and the variables associated with them. You can right-click a data source to add a variable, and you can right-click a variable to access its properties or delete it. You can also click and drag variables into the Document window as text, a barcode, or an image.
  • The Objects Window: Displays, by type, the objects that have been created and their properties, such as position, height and width. You can right-click an object in the in the window to select it in the Document window, to lock or unlock it, or to display its properties.

TOOLBARS 
LABELVIEW/CODESOFT provides toolbars for quick access to commonly used commands. Hold your mouse pointer over a toolbar button to view the name of the button. Click View > Toolbars to select the toolbars you want to hide or display, and to customize the toolbars.
 

CREATION TOOLBAR 
The Creation Toolbar provides tools you can use to quickly create objects in the document (label). To create an object, click a button on this toolbar and then click in the document.


 
OBJECT TOOLBAR 
The Object Toolbar contains an object name box and a Properties button.

  • Object Name Box: Identifies the selected object and allows you to rename it.
  • Properties Button: Displays the properties for the object.

OBJECT FORMATTING TOOLBAR 
The Object Formatting Toolbar provides tools for working with selected objects—objects (text, bar code, or image) must be selected for tools to be available. It also provides tools for adjusting the location and font size of the human readable associated with a barcode.

  • Change Order: Allows the changing of the order in which objects are displayed on screen. 
  • Printable/Nonprintable: Determines whether the selected object will print.
  • Lock/Unlock: Determines whether the selected object can be modified, moved, resized, or deleted.
  • Decrease Line Width: Reduces the width of selected lines created using the drawing tools. 
  • Increase Line Width: Widens selected lines created using the drawing tools.

 

  • Increase Object Width: Enlarges the overall width of the selected object. 
  • Decrease Object Width: Reduces the overall width of the selected object. 
  • Increase Object Height: Enlarges the overall height of the selected object. 
  • Decrease Object Height: Reduces the overall height of the selected object.

 PLACEMENT TOOLBAR 
The Placement Toolbar allows you to position objects in the label. To use the Placement Toolbar you must first select the object in your label that you want to move. You can select more than one object if you want to bring them into alignment with each other.
 


 

 

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