This page discusses some of the most notable features and capabilities of the Seagull BarTender Software.  It includes screen shots, diagrams, charts and explanatory text. 

With the Seagull BarTender Software for Windows, a few quick mouse motions are all it takes to combine bar codes, text and graphics into sharp looking, professional quality labels. And moving and resizing objects on your labels is as easy as 1, 2, 3.

1) Simply click on a label object to select it.
2) Drag it to a new position with a quick, easy mouse movement.
3) Stretch objects just as easily.

And customizing is easy. Carefully organized menus and "pop-up" dialogs display even the most advanced options in plain, easy-to-understand words. And, with the industry's most powerful Undo command, even beginners never have to worry about mistakes. And advanced users still have all the power they'll ever need.

Design Your Next Label in Five Minutes with Seagull BarTender Software

Seagull BarTender Software gives you total control over your label's appearance, including the type and size of text, bar codes and graphics. Place objects exactly where you want them and control rotation as precisely as 1 degree. You're limited only by your imagination.

Smartly organized dialogs offer numerous options, while keeping things simple.

Strict adherence to Microsoft's official user-interface guidelines, means if you've used just one other Windows program you're ready to start designing labels.

"Tool tips" offer quick hints, and each of the three tool bars in the can be
moved away from its normal screen-edge position and reshaped as desired.

Modify and print multiple label designs.

Seagull BarTender's design mode gives you an extraordinarily accurate "real-time" view of your label. There is also a Print Preview mode that even reads your external data sources, so it can display exactly how your labels are going to look before you print them. That mean you can design more quickly without wasting labels.

Print Preview with external data sourcing reduces wasted labels.

Seagull BarTender and Seagull's printer drivers offer an extraordinary variety of font capabilities. Use printer fonts for maximum speed and Windows fonts for the most flexible styling. Many printer drivers now even support font downloading for an optimum combination of font variety and printing performance.

Seagull BarTender's toolbox gives you instant access to an extensive set of predefined bar code components.  "Drag and drop" bar codes into your label designs using a single, quick mouse motion.  Use our predefined components "as is" or customize as desired.

Create bar codes with a quick "drag and drop" motion.

"Rich Text" allows individual text objects to contain multiple typefaces (Times, Arial, etc.) and styles (bold, italic, etc.). Seagull BarTender raises the power of rich text to a whole new level by allowing you to source the different parts of a rich text object with external data fields. For example, you might use one font style for some static text and use other styles for some of you changing text.

        Rich text paragraphs can combine static data ansourced data.

Bar code exported from BarTender into Corel^® Draw.

Sometimes a customer or outside agency demands a particular label design. "Compliance" with such external specifications can be challenging, especially if it requires something your label software just can't do. Maybe one of our numerous predesigned label formats is all you need. We've familiarized ourselves with numerous commonly used standards in order to build Seagull BarTender into the most full-featured compliance-labeling tool available. Whether you're using one of our many ready-to-print formats, or designing labels from scratch, Seagull BarTender has the power and flexibility you need for thousands of compliance label standards.

BarTender comes with hundreds of ready-to-use symbols.

Seagull BarTender can accept label data from a truly remarkable variety of sources:

• Keyboard data entered in advance or at print time.
• Automatically serialized data strings.
• Automatic time and date values.
• Four different text file formats.
• ODBC data sources, including most databases and spreadsheets. (Advanced data reporting capabilities include SQL Select statements and Query by Example.)
• Direct input from SAP IDocs (Intermediate Documents).

In designing Seagull BarTender as a true Windows application, special consideration was given to the ability to work cooperatively with other applications.  This includes extremely versatile data importing capabilities and three easy ways to control Seagull BarTender from within other programs.

• Importing Label Data From Databases
• Controlling Seagull BarTender From Within Other Programs
• Integrating Seagull BarTender with Enterprise Software Applications.