F71702_ReleasUs.txt Driver File Contents (LabelShop_20START_20612.exe)

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LabelShop START/ULTRA/PRO - v.6.11, May 12, 2003
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This document contains information on technical problems, corrections of 
known issues, limitations and new solutions.

	I   - New features
	II  - Corrections
	III - Warnings


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I - NEW FEATURES
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- A new version of the UCC/EAN 128 Wizard added in LabelShop ULTRA/PRO.

- The driver for the hardware key is now Windows XP compatible.

- The function week has been added in formula.

- The spooler mode is now allowed in LabelShop START on Local ports only 
  (USB is supported but not TCP/IP or network printing).



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II- CORRECTIONS 
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- It is now possible to save labels created under LabelShop LITE 3.60

- Default IP address customization:
  The default IP address is now 9100. (Was 9090 in earlier versions).
  To change this value, add the following sentence in the [GENERAL] section
  of the CS.INI:

  IPPPortNumber= (enter the correct value)


Barcode
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- DATAMATRIX
  To change the code page you can use {EC:x}.

- Printer barcode with empty data are now not printed instead of barcode 
  filled with a number of zero based on the barcode length. 

- Codabar
  Human readable start and stop characters are now shown as upper case
  according to AIM Standards.

- On a label with a Codablock A barcode, if you create it as the sample link
  and then select the barcode button and try to add another barcode,
  LabelShop now continues to run normally (no longer stops working).

- The Lock function is now working correctly when used with a barcode
  and when the Human Readable is set to FREE.


Fonts
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- Adobe fonts under Windows 2000 can be selected, but are shown with a null
  width. If a label is created under Windows 98 with these fonts, they are
  changed by printer fonts under Windows 2000.
  The width is now properly displayed and can be adjusted.

- Font size in Font property now shows the correct values when using arrows
  to increase the size.

- When changing a TTF the subset is changed systematically to the first one 
  in the list (so it can be something like Arabic or Baltic, which should 
  not be the default). The default subset is now "Western".

- Problem on variable text with Wordwrap and Fit To frame options checked 
  is solved.


Graphic
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- Variable graphics are now found in default directory.

- Included DXF picture is now correctly accepted under LabelShop 6.

- The image objects create no error anymore when accessing to the 
  properties. The label is now correctly saved.

- WMF files are now proposed when creating a fixed graphic.

- LabelShop PRO on Win98 SE & Win2000:
  There is no more the error message "Cannot create the image" when 
  you change an image property.



Object
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- The edit mode is now deactivated when you type text, click on the File
  menu, and then press escape to go back into the label.

- There is no longer a problem with inserting an EPS file.
  If the EPS file is not a raster image, the image is not displayed. 

- EPS files created by LabelShop using the Export function are now in the 
  right format and can be reused by other applications.

- Labels saved with 45° rotation of the display font can now be corrected 
  under Windows 2000.

- The text now adjusts to be centered inside the frame with the fit to 
  frame option.

- Improvements have been made for the continuity of the fit to frame option.

- When printing using Merge and using fit to frame, the frame now grows 
  only if the smallest font is too big for the frame.
  
- The Text rotation function gets now the right value in Read & Write.

- Network local installation:
  Alignment check option in text/paragraph dialog box works now correctly.
  


OLE
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- Add an OLE object (like WordArt) to an empty label, then save the label.
  Open the label, move the object, and then save and close the label.
  Now when you reopen the label the OLE object is still there.

- The error "server application cannot be started" no longer appears when
  you are using the Insert OLE object function. 


Page setup
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- Autosize format :
  Label dimension is now retrieved to put in the page layout.


ASCII Database
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- There is no longer a problem with displaying data on a label with an
  ASCII database and the "Open merge database with labels" option checked.

- ASCII merge
  When SERIALQTY is used and the first value is 0, the merge is now 
  executed.
  

Database Manager
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- The function "Duplicate a Record" now creates a copy, not an empty record.

- The control variables LABELCPY  and  SERIALQTY are now working under 
  Database Manager.


- Problem was : forward search button was doing a backward search,
  so it always stayed on first matching record.
  NOTE : If a DBase format database is used. This new exe file relies
         on Microsoft's DAO 3.6. Some Microsoft patch may be required
         to allow selection query in the print box. 
         (c.f. Microsoft knowledge base).


Formula
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- If the name of the label starts with a number, the following formula now
  returns a correct string length. 
  right(@LABNAME,11) 

- When changing the expression of a formula the label is now recalculated.



POF
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- When generating a POF file, LabelShop now uses the POC selected in the 
  export menu.


Printing
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- When opening the Printer dialog box, then clicking on Ok without 
  changing the selected printer, you no longer lose the Specific 
  Options for printers supporting this feature.

- Graphic processing has been improved.


Variable
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- The error while using concatenated functions in formula variables is 
  corrected in this version.

- Printing an Image link to a variable field that is not defining an image
  no longer causes the program to crash.

- The form field (and the other variables) accept:
  no value,
  file name without extension,
  file name with extension (if the extension is not the default extension),
  and entire pathname.
  
- There is no more problem when adding a variable text to a paragraph.


Form
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- When printing with an automatic Form prompt, updated data is now  
  retrieved to the label if printing is triggered with ENTER key.

- When a label is upgraded from version 4 or version 5 to version 6.11, 
  the option "Display form when printing" integrated is working now.
  
  

Query
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- When you make Cancel on the Query dialog box, all previous selection 
  is now kept.
  
  
Database Manager
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- Now, when a field LABNAME causes a change in the current label, Database
  Manager issues a form feed to end the pending job.

- WYSIWYG problems while using Database Manager ME is now corrected.
  The problem was when actualizing data from Database Manager, the values
  were not updated if LabelShop was in Filler mode. This problem may be 
  also be found using  VB program setting variable data when LabelShop 
  was in Filler mode.

- When updating the variables list, Database Manager now checks if the 
  variable already exists instead of 'blindly' setting its size.
  Side effects: Now, if you modify the structure of your table,
  the existing label will not be updated with new field sizes.


Settings
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- Driver settings are loaded with label although the option  
  "Load the printer settings saved in the document" is off.
  Settings are now saved in user.ini file after changing printer settings.

- When installing a UNC network printer the spool is not created.
  The printer spool is now THT_50 //PCNAME/PRINTER in place of 
  THT_50 \\PCNAME\PRINTER.

- When saving and reopening a label in form display mode, you don't get 
  an empty screen anymore.


Font Downloader
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- In font selection and settings dialog box of Font Downloader, the font
  AGFA Arabesque with the subset symbol is selected by default. When 
  selecting the Arial font, the subset is always symbol. 
  The subset is now updated by changing the font.


User Manager
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- When you create a new profile in the User Manager, if you create 
  another new profile and you add one user that exists in the other 
  profile, this user is not deleted from the old profile. So you can
  have the same user in more than one profile. 
  Now, when you add a user that is already in a group there is no effect.

- It is now possible to list users of different domains under Windows NT
  and Windows 2000. 

- Under Windows NT/2000 User Manager now takes into account the login-sign
  space in the login. 

- There is no more problem with User Manager when using a local 
  installation on Windows 2000.


ActiveX
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- When using generate pof, with a file path for the poc file, 
  the file used is now the one indicated by the search path.

- When changing the value of a text object, 
  the font definition is now set to the first font used under LabelShop.

- The date offset or offset type can now be read through ActiveX.

- Polygons are now printed correctly when labelling software is used as 
  a hidden ActiveX.

- ActiveX early binding under VB with reference to TLB
  When accessing a variables.dates item you get the error:
  "function interface marked as restricted..."
  with late binding the dates property can be used without a problem
  syntax used:
  MsgBox cs.ActiveDocument.Variables.Dates.Item(1).Name
  Use DateTime Object name in place of Date.

- ActiveX Printdocument
  The Printdocument function now prints the linked document instead of 
  the current document.

- ActiveX OpenODBC
  When closing the application you are prompted to save the query only 
  if the server is visible. When closing a layout through ActiveX, 
  or when quitting LabelShop, and a label is open with a query, a 
  message box, asking to register the query, appears behind the 
  calling application window only if the server is visible.

- ActiveX-connection with ODBC datasource Oracle 8.1.7 in VB or
  ActiveX with attached database fields on SQL server
  When call OpenODBC method on the Database object use this syntax :
  "DSN=OraServ1;UID=username;PWD=password"
  Sometimes use UID or UserID entry name, depend of the ODBC driver
  DSN is the Data Source Name,
  UID / UserID is the User ID to login,
  PWD is the user Password.

- During a print job, events have been fired, precisely OLEPausePrinting,
  only if the server was visible. Now events will be fired in all cases, 
  server visible or not.

- The quality of the CopyImageToFile and the CopyToClipboard functions 
  has been improved.

- If the extension is specified, the CopyImageToFile function now 
  creates the file with the extension.

- Changing the language through ActiveX now works correctly.

- When you use the OpenODBC call in LabelShop's back end, 
  it returns a "true" if it actually makes an attachment to a table. 

- ViewOrientation now works correctly.

- When changing the text.VariableName of a text object or when the 
  VariableObject is modified, the font definition is now set to the 
  font of the text object.

- When using Copyimagetofile it will now free up the PC memory.

- In the TLB the ViewOrientation work with 0,1,2,3, but not with
  lppx90DegreeLeft, lppx90DegreeRight ou lppxUpSideDown.
  The correct values were set in the type library for this release.

- A new property IsEval (Read Only) is added on the LabelShop 
  application interface to solve the problem (message "do you 
  want to start in eval mode..." is disabled when LabelShop is launched
  in automated or embedded mode ).

- When starting LabelShop as a hidden ActiveX, its floating toolbars no
  longer appear on screen.

- Date offset in ActiveX is now implemented.

- Printlabel method sets the intercut to 1 after the second printjob.
  It now uses the Intercut set in the printer settings when no value is 
  set in the PrintLabel method
  
- Command CopyImageToFile doesn't generate an empty image anymore.



Settings
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- Additional serial ports will be completed from the registry entry.
  But, if they are not listed , it is necessary to add ports manually 
  from the panel configuration (start menu, parameters ) of NT4,
  then to select ports item, and to configure them and to restart
  the system.

- Label created with LabelShop 4 containing a variable graphic - 
  If under LabelShop 4 the path for the graphic is set to "another 
  directory" as the default directory, this information is now 
  retrieved when opening the label under LabelShop 6.


Batch Print Manager
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- The Batch Print Manager now recognizes the field @LABNAME.


LabelShop PRO Net
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- After a Local Network installation, each time a VB application was 
  launched the Network install was automatically started.
  This problem has been solved.


LabelShop ULTRA
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- When LabelShop ULTRA is protected by a password, the use of the zoom 
  button doesn't provoke an error anymore.

- Under Windows 98, the justification of the text field is now saved.

- When selected objects are aligned, the anchor point (top-left by default)
  of each object will be preserved for all products.
  
- Under Windows XP, if an image comes from the folder by default (Options
  dialog box), the message "Cannot create the image" is not displayed
  anymore after having confirmed the Image dialog box.


LabelShop START
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- LabelShop START now supports printing on USB ports.


Sample labels
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- Toys.lab now has correct path to graphics.

- Fonts.lab corrected font width.


Printer drivers:
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Direct Protocol Driver v.11.4.0.77
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- Added support for new printer models EasyCoder PF2i, PF4i and PM4i.

- EasyCoder F2/F4. It was not possible to set the start and
  stop adjustment in the driver setting. Corrected.

- Setup written to file and is stored in RAM. If printer is switched off,
  the original setup is used. 
  
- Setup was somvetimes not sent when a new label was loaded.
  It's now sent with every print job, unless driver is set to
  "User printer resident settings" ON.
  
- Media settings where not saved if driver was set to "Use settings 
  from stock". There was also problems to read correct default media
  settings for the stocks.
   
  For e.g. EasyCoder 401/501/601, DT media settings was not handled
  correctly. When setting a DT media, this was not saved correctly. 

- X-start value is now sent to the printers.
  EasyCoder PF2i, PF4i and PM4i x=0 will be sent as default.
  For EasyCoder 501XP, 601XP, F2 and F4, X-start=0 is OFF as
  default to be compatible with old labels.
    
- Syntax error in Contrast setting +0% corrected.

- Macros for Datamatrix is now supported.

- Datamatrix, QRCode and Postnet symbologies are now supported.
  Datamatrix and QRCode is supported on EasyCoder PF2i, PF4i and PM4i
  as standard. For EasyCoder F2, F4, 501XP and 601XP, downmload of 
  the optional modules is required.

  
- Problems when printing bar codes with variable data and driver set to
  "Send modified data only" set to On, is now corrected.
  
  

Fingerprint Driver 11.4.0.32
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- Added support for new printer models EasyCoder PF2i, PF4i and PM4i.

- Setup written to file and is stored in RAM. If printer is switched off,
  the original setup is used. 
  
- Setup was somvetimes not sent when a new label was loaded.
  It's now sent with every print job, unless driver is set to
  "User printer resident settings" ON.
  
- X-start value is now sent to the printers.
  EasyCoder PF2i, PF4i and PM4i x=0 will be sent as default.
  For EasyCoder 501XP, 601XP, F2 and F4, X-start=0 is OFF as
  default to be compatible with old labels.
    
- Syntax error in Contrast setting 0% corrected.

- Macros for Datamatrix is now supported.

- Datamatrix, QRCode and Postnet symbologies are now supported.
  Datamatrix and QRCode is supported on EasyCoder PF2i, PF4i and PM4i
  as standard. For EasyCoder F2, F4, 501XP and 601XP, downmload of 
  the optional modules is required.

- Problems when printing bar codes with variable data and driver set to
  "Send modified data only" set to On, is now corrected.



IPL Driver v.11.3.0.40
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- Added support for PDF417 in EasyCoder 3600 and 3400B.

- Correction on prefix implementation for barcode counters (prefix
  was not correctly inserted in final value).

- Correction on POF management for speed and heat

- After clicking on "Send Settings", General tab was activated,
  now, program stays on the current tab.

- On EasyCoder 3400xx, internal optimisation to avoid useless rotation.

- Changed prompt for "Nonstandard protocol" to <STX><ETX> protocol.

- Added support for Direct Graphics when using <STX><ETX> protocol.

- Macros for Datamatrix is now supported.

- Added support for new printer models EasyCoder PF2i, PF4i and PM4i.


ESim Driver v.11.11.1.7
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- Adds support for Cutter

- Adds support for EasyCoder C4 (300dpi)

- EasyCoder C4. If counter contained 11 digits or more an
  incrementing counter decremented instead. Corrected.

- Default memory partitioning in 300 dpi driver (used
  in DSP 1; driver v.11.10.1.4) corrected.

- Macros for Datamatrix is now supported.

- EasyCoder C4 (203 dpi) Postnet narrow bar was shown as 6 dots, while
  it should be 4 dots.


ColorCoder V4 Driver v.11.1.1.0
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- Colour printing now working properly.



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III- WARNINGS 
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- Labels created with this version cannot be opened by older versions: 
  i.e. LabelShop 6.03 or older


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