There are two ways to use Bartender with Create!form
1) Design label in Bartender
- Use Seagull Driver for Win printer
- Use generic names for variables on label
- Print label to file, capture output
- Start a new project using Create!form Transform
- In the Transform Project, create 1 large section, like a header section, get rid of the rest
- In the one large section, create a text object, paste the output from the Bartender label
- Everywhere you see the variable names from the label, use the variable insert tool to insert variables from either your E1 PDF file, or a mapped data item if using ASCII text
as the input file
- After all of this is done, the E1 or mapped variables are in the code for the Bartender Label
- Create a Director project to call the transform project and output the job to the Bartender printer (which is not setup as a Create!form printer)
- The Director project also has the required Bartender Header line in the JTT file
2) Design label in Bartender
- Use Seagull Driver for Win printer
- Start a new project using Create!form Transform
- In the Transform Project, you can use a header section if needed, can also use detail sections for multiple records, multiple labels
- Each section should be height of 1
- Simply use either variables or a text object with multiple variables within it (variable insert tool) and separate each variable with a comma
- This is much like a CSV file, each record is a label
- Do a print preview, save the output file
- In Bartender label, use the Database Connection Setup option to bring in the data file and assign each variable (database field) to a variable in the Bartender Label
(I have a doc that outlines exactly how to do this, send me an email if you'd like it, its pretty easy)
- Create a Director project to call the transform project and output the job to a Directory where Bartender Commander will pick it up.
- Create a Task in Bartender Commander to pick up the file in the directory & output it to the printer (specified in Output)
- The Director project also has the required Bartender Header line in the JTT file
The 2nd way described is much easier and more robust as it utilizes Bartender Commander and offers more functionality in the Bartender Designer.
Mark