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1. netavePro is designed to enhance Corel DRAW for the modern day Laser Engraver by EneravePro was built on a foundation of ideas from many users EngravePro LLC values its customers and their ideas If you have an idea on how EngravePro can better your experience with CorelDRAW please feel free to let us know Email us at ideas engravepro com What s New Version 16 e Completed the transition from Visual Basic for Applications to Net e Added QR Code Support e Added the ability to save preferences to a backup file Version 15 e Aligned EngtravePro version number with CorelDRAW for clarity e Fixed various bugs e Redesigned user interface e Converted to NET Version 5 7 e Bar codes EngravePro now does 1D ad 2D barcodes e Date and time token added to VariableText e Invert Selection Invert your selection of currently selected items in CorelDRW e Multiple changes for Windows Vista e Preferences dialog added to VariableText e Help files updated e Size selected objects to width or height of currently selected objects Version 5 0 e Circle Copy Copy selected objects into a circular pattern e Tile Objects Tiles selected objects into a grid like pattern according to your spacing specifications e Copy Plate Copy s the selected object and places it next to its parent Like tiling only you press the Page Down key on your keyboard Keep pressing the key and it continues to copy moving to the ne
2. 1 101 Start Count Starting number Ending number Pad amount 3 Increment sequence 1 every 1 AS400 001A 112 Your status line should look like the one shown 15 Select Field 2 in the Lines area 16 Select the Numeric option Set the pad amount to 3 This will ensure there are always three digits Your dialog should look like the one below i Auto Serialize 15 040 98 T AS400 001A 17 Now select Field 3 in the Lines area 18 Select the Alpha option 19 Make your dialog look like the one shown Auto Serialize 15 0 4 0 File Help Number of Plates Fields How many fields for Line 1 Field Type AS400 001A 113 20 Once you have completed these steps you are ready to continue 21 Click the Create Job button 22 A message appears asking you if you want to save the template 23 Click Yes 24 Enter a name for you job in the folder you want to save it to 25 Click the Save button This will save your template and invoke the Variable Text application 26 A message appears asking if this is a multiplate job As you want to interact with the machine as little as possible click Yes The Plate Size dialog appears 27 Set your Multiple Plate Size to 12 inches in height by 13 inches in width 28 For Plate Offsets enter 125 for all four of the values 29 Select the Borders option in the Borders Cut
3. ie 27 lly Hill 69 Vertical Spacing The amount of distance you want added File TI between your plates in the Y direction This value is only File 1 used when you choose Borders or None The value has no City of H effect for Grid Cut Out File 1 l r File 1 City of H Left Border The amount of space you want to add between the left side of your master plate to the left side of your first single plate Fie 1 line File 1 Line 1 Ar City of Holly Hill ial lime iE Top Border The amount of space you want to add f File 1 Line between the top of your master plate to the top of your first File 1 Line 2 single plate City of Holly Hil Grid Cut Out will add a grid to the job for the purpose of cutting out your plates When this is selected Horizontal Vertical Spacing has no may ae aay ee effect Left Top border will be added if there is Fie 1 Line Fie 1 Line 1 a value greater than 0 in either of the text fields City of Hally Hill City of Hally Hill File 1 Line File 1 Line 3 Fie 1 Lire Fie 1 Lire 1 City of Helly Hill City of Hally Hill File 1 Line File Line 3 70 Fa Borders will allow you to automatically place File 1 Line 1 File 1 Line 3 a File 1 Line 2 File line 1 borders around your plates at the Single Plate ite w Hi City y Hi Li acia AN oy eee Ol J Size and optionally allow you to round the C Fiel Line 1 VF File 1 Line 3
4. o1 without the quotes Now click your mouse elsewhere on your page and enter the following text Mfer Date 4 15 2002 again without quotes For the third line of text enter XYZ Incorporated 5 You plate should look similar to the one shown Yo Yo Mfgr Date 4 15 200 XYZ Incorporated 6 Now select the 1 line Change its height to 250 or about 18 points 7 Select the second and third line and change their letter height to 188 or about 14 points 8 Click the EngravePro menu and click SpacePlate 111 9 Making sure there are no lines selected click the Even Space Centered con al A Mfgr Date 4 15 2002 XYZ Incorporated 10 Your plate should now look like this 11 Exit the SpacePlate program by clicking the X in the upper right corner of the toolbox 12 Click the EngravePro menu and select Auto Serialize Make your settings like the ones shown below E Auto Serialize 15 0 4 0 Number of Plates Number of Lines 100 1 13 After setting your values like what is shown above click the Next button 14 In the fields section enter a 3 for how many fields you want In the left hand Lines window select Field 1 if it in not already selected Click the Fixed option and enter AS400 into the Fixed String text box Auto Serialize 15 0 4 0 File Help Number of Plates j Fields How many fields for Line 1 3 Field Type Numeric Fixed Alpha
5. option in the file save dialog box You must save your file as an Enhanced Windows Metafile EMF If your border is an odd shape it may be better to put it in your Corel DRAW layout instead of importing it through Copy Pro The reason is simply Copy Pro does not reposition your lines to fit within a particular border Although CopyPro does just fine with borders that are rectangular in shape odd shaped borders present unique layout issues For example consider the two plates below TEST PLATE Figure 1 with a rectangular border and imported works fine SECOND LINE Figure 2 however does not work especially because the aspect TEST PLATE ratio of the border does not match the plate Here our example SECOND LINE is a 1 by 3 inch plate The border was designed for a 1 5 by 3 plate The result is a border shortened thus running into your text The solution here would be to put your border into your layout while in CorelDRAW and reposition yout lines of text 75 Invert Selection Inverts your current selection such that all items that are currently selected will be unselected and all items that were initially unselected become selected Set Border Creates a border on your page The value entered is the amount of distance between the edge of the plate and the border itself l P Add a Page Border Offset from Page Edge in Inches 0 125 Cancel Before After 1 code39 BAR i code39 BAR 76 J
6. smartphone the reader s permissions may allow use of the camera full Internet access read write contact data GPS read browser history read write local storage and global system changes 43144145 Risks include linking to dangerous web sites with browser exploits enabling the microphone camera GPS and then streaming those feeds to a remote server analysis of sensitive data passwords files contacts transactions and sending email SMS IM messages or DDOS packets as part of a botnet corrupting privacy settings stealing identity 4 and even containing malicious logic themselves such as JavaScript or a virus These actions could occur in the background while the user is only seeing the reader opening a seemingly harmless web page In Russia a malicious QR code caused phones that scanned it to send premium texts at a fee of US 6 each RSS 14 RSS 14 Stacked RSS 14 Stacked Omni directional and RSS Limited fies deed eR tet 123456 78901231 RSS Reduced Space Symbology is a relatively new symbology that encodes up to 14 numeric digits along with an optional two dimensional Composite bar code component that can encode up to 338 additional bytes of alpha numeric data The linear portion of a RSS 14 bar code symbol is capable of 108 encoding 14 digits comprised of 13 numeric digits of user specified data and a single check digit that is automatically calculated for you i e 14 total digits If you
7. tree nee Interline Spacing is a percentage of the line height itself Clicking sapling the button at the bottom of the toolbox will change the type of value between Inches and Percentages When clicking the button it will automatically convert your values based on the current size of your plate For example if the button is labeled Percentages you have 10 percent in the left and right margins and your plate is 3 inches left to right then clicking the button to Inches will change your value of 10 to 3 Conversely if you click the button again back to Percentages it will automatically calculate 3 to be 10 percent of your current plate width Loree arene cholo el boceeturr er hase an E Spacing is Even Spacing of Selected Unselected Lines You may either have your text selected or not If your text is selected the spacing will occur between the top and the bottom lines that are selected If you select your lines of text by clicking the first line then Shift Clicking the other lines all lines will be adjusted based upon the last line you selected If your text is not selected all lines on the plate will be spaced and the text width will be adjusted according to the left and right margins you set 3 E M Factored Spacing F Spacing is Factored Spacing of Unselected Lines Factored spacing takes into account the percentage entered into the percentage boxes Numbers entered are the desired percentage of plate space you
8. will be larger in total area and contain more overhead than short wide bar codes low aspect ratios On the other hand short wide bar codes low aspect ratios may be difficult to read depending on the type of scanner that you use NOTE For any given PDF417 bar code symbol there are only a small number of possible aspect ratios that are physically possible Because of this you will probably not be able to produce a bar code with the exact PDF Aspect Ratio that you specify VariableText will automatically generate a bar code with the closest match to the PDF Aspect Ratio value that you specify within the limits of the symbol specification VariableText also provides more detailed control over the size and shape of a PDF417 symbol by allowing you to specify the maximum number of rows and a maximum number of data code word columns in a symbol using the PDF Max Rows and PDF Max Cols properties The default maximum number of data rows and columns are the maximum values allowable in the PDF417 symbol specification 1 e 30 rows and 90 Columns If you specify smaller values for these parameters you are essentially defining an upper limit to the overall height or width of all generated PDF symbols For example suppose you need to generate a PDF symbol that absolutely must be no wider than two inches and you chose 10 mils for the PDF Module Width property Because there are 17 modules in a code word and there are 69 modules of overhead per row start st
9. will see a dialog box similar to the one below r ae al EngravePro License Management v ae License Status Name Status x License 9200 License not found activation is required Actions wantto Using Activate a license or renewal This computer s Intemet connection GO License Details License ID Password Installation ID Installation Name Enter the License ID and Password that was emailed to you Select Another computert s internet connection then click the next button 17 The following dialog box appears Begin Manual Request Save a request file recommended Select the location to save your request file below You may then take this file to another computer and double click the file to get a response which you may then bring back to this computer to finish the process C Users gutauckis CITYOFHOLLYHILL Desktop Request html ec 3 Copy the request text below and paste it into the manual request page or into a support ema lt Activate installation License File gt lt EncryptionKey D gt 4cff 7bc3 0c36 46c5 a5ed 4e524cb9ae45 lt EncryptionKeylD gt lt EncryptedData Id PrivateData gt Type http www w3 org 2001 04Aclenc Element E xmins http www w3 0rg 2001 04 mlenc gt lt CipherData gt lt CipherValue gt WPIDsm5XKVcd 1n07ku6e6Cateer T4PRYxyXdDE4LycPEEXkpCPCeweJKW vtQxR2nK1KvL4WIhoedRapvZvN 1vyid Lzvgc2dwU5GB4 K2D BayJ99c6
10. 109 RSS 14 Stacked bar codes you cannot set the bar height independently of the Narrow Bar Width value RSS 14 Stacked Omni directional The RSS 14 Stacked Omni directional symbology is almost identical to RSS 14 Stacked except that the two rows of the linear portion of a RSS 14 Stacked Omni directional bar code symbol are always 33 times the narrow bar width in height and the two rows are separated by a special separator pattern that is 3 times the narrow bar width in height The unlike RSS 14 Stacked the RSS 14 Stacked Omni directional symbology is designed to facilitate unidirectional scanning With RSS 14 Stacked Omni directional bar codes you cannot set the bar height independently of the Narrow Bar Width value RSS Limited RSS Expanded is yet another smaller variation of the RSS 14 symbology It is printed in a single row however it is slightly narrower than a standard RSS 14 symbol The number that you encode in a RSS Limited bar code must be less than or equal to 1999999999999 In other words the first digit in a full 13 digit number cannot be greater than one RSS Expanded RSS Expanded is a variable length linear symbology capable of encoding up to 74 numeric digits or 41 alphanumeric characters in either a single or multiple rows RSS Expanded is currently not supported by VartableText 110 Sample Job XYZ Company requested you produce 100 lasered tags for their new product line They want each tag to be numbered s
11. 120 22 Auto Serialize Serial enables you to create sequential numbers for importing into Variable Text and finally into CorelDRAW With Auto Serialize you can create complicated numbers based on Numbers Letters and or static text Before you start you want to lay out your plate in Corel DRAW Pictured below is a sample You can open this sample by clicking Sample 4 in the EngravePro folder located on your Start Menu Serial 70 D O M 2 2 2002 Thermal Motion Systems Inc Notice we only have one Variable Text line as denoted by the 1 Ei Auto Serialire 1502 0 i eevee ae s After setting up your plate and including the ble Help are Variable Text line click the EngravePro menu in w aoo OoOO E Hyer o E CorelDRAW then click Auto Serialize A dialog a a box similar to the one on the left will appear For nop this example set the Number of Plates to 100 the Setngrunbe Endra runbar Number of Lines to 1 and the number of fields to 3 Let s explain the different areas of the dialog and their functions This area gives you a graphical view of your job For each line you specified in the previous dialog box you will have a separate line entry here If you click on any of the fields the field s values will be reflected in the corresponding fields to the right of the Lines area Fields For each line you may have many fields ee Use the to increase or decrease the number of fields for eac
12. Denso Wave in 1994 to track vehicles during manufacture It was designed to allow high speed component scanning It has since become one of the most popular types of two dimensional barcodes Unlike the older one dimensional barcode that was designed to be mechanically scanned by a narrow beam of light to extract data the QR code is detected as a 2 dimensional digital image by a semiconductor image sensor and is then digitally analyzed by a programmed processor The processor locates the three distinctive squares at the corners of the image and uses a Smaller square near the fourth corner to normalize the image for size orientation and angle of viewing The small dots are then converted to binary numbers and their validity checked with an error correcting code Standards a 1 Version information CO 3 Data and error correction keys as 4 Required patterns m 4 1 Position C 4 2 Alignment a 4 3 Timing 2 Format information There are several standards in documents covering the physical encoding of QR codes October 1997 AIM Association for Automatic Identification and Mobility International January 1999 HS X 0510 June 2000 ISO IEC 18004 2000 Information technology Automatic identification and data capture techniques Bar code symbology OR code now withdrawn Defines QR code models 1 and 2 symbols 1 September 2006 ISO IEC 18004 2006 Information technology Autom
13. JU E SYN sy Je Je Jy Jy y Y ETB SWOT CAN TSX Je J X X a X EM J CCC Jy Y k SB Iz e SE Ja z a a Ese rA poo E Ed Ye OP J l we o p o oo T X Y Z Note Because all of the characters used to implement Full ASCII Code 39 are part of the Normal Code 39 character set readers that do not support Full ASCH Code 39 will still read Full ASCII Code 39 symbols The reader will output shifted characters as if they were normal Code 39 characters For example the following string PROGRAMMING FUN will be read as PROGRAMMING HFUN by a reader that only supports Normal Code 39 Instead of converting the Full ASCII encoded characters H to an equal sign the reader blindly outputs H HIBC Code 39 HIBC or Health Industry Bar Code is a specification for a standard method of encoding data using Code 39 in healthcare applications The standard requires that the first character in 79 a HIBC bar code be a plus character and that the symbol use a MOD 43 check digit To generate HIBC bar codes all you need to do is to set the bar code type to Code39_HIBC and VaritableText will automatically add the starting plus sign to your bar code message as well as calculate and append the check digit for you Code 39 Symbol Concatenation Some bar code readers support a feature of Code 39 that allows for concatenation of two or more bar codes so that you can break long messages into multiple shorter symbols If the first data c
14. Out area 30 Click the Locked Unlock button until it reads Locked 31 Choose any of the four boxes and enter 25 for the Radius All four boxes will now reflect the value and your Plate Size dialog should look like the one below Variable Text 15 0 4 0 File Help Single Plate Size File Stats Height 1 500 Width 3 000 Number of Lines 100 T User Scot Documents EngravePro Seral Saved Scripts tempout bt Multiple Plate Size Plate Offsets Borders Cut Out Plate Options None Grid Cut Out Borders Custom 32 Click the Ok button 114 33 A message appears asking if you want to set margins Click Yes 34 Enter a left and right margin of 250 by clicking the Left Margin entering your value then either press the Enter key twice or click on the Right Margin Finish by entering the Right Margin value and pressing enter again 35 Click the Ok button 36 In a few seconds EngravePro will create all of your plates serialized and ready for you to engrave Pa ee f RE e oS mi o a Sejal As4O00 0014 sejal 55400 0028 Serica MFge Dote 4 152002 Migi Date 4 15 2002 Migi WE Inceopornate d SVE Incorpornoted ME a i r i a M j a D a a sejali 4As400 0040 sejal As400 005E Seidl MFge Dote 4 152002 Mgr Date 4 15 2002 Migi SVE Incorporated SVE Incorporated YE Me AN M ELNI a rr 7 arr sejal 5400 007 sejali As400 008H Sena MFgc Dote 4 152002 Mige Date 4 15 2002 Mgr Here is a
15. Select at least three nodes with the pick tool on a curve and select Make Line from the EngravePro menu Make Line will automatically straighten the line for you For example Before with the three nodes highlighted After with the two remaining nodes highlighted Make Line not only straightens the line but removes no longer needed nodes 43 Make Square Make Square will make a box out of the select object s by calculating the outermost limits of the selection Before Make Square After Make Square To use make Square simply select the object or objects you want to make a square from then click Make Square form the EngravePro menu 44 Move Objects Home A X Move selected or all objects to the upper left corner of your page Most times you want to save material by engraving objects as close to the upper left corner of the page as possible While you can certainly move the objects with your mouse it is easier to simply select the object and then click Move Objects Home Before After BS CorelDRAW XS C Users Scott Documents My Dropbox Engrgi CorelDRAW X5 C Users Scott Documents My Dropbox EngravePro NET Testing Files T File Edit View Cayout Arrange Effects Bitmal i File Edit View Layout Arrange Effects Bitmaps Text Cera Hlb 2 me W hl 7 G 3 814 ae z a EE peta a a a E a E oo fo Pet aber bored Beery od E et ee repel E panera Wi trrs ef E E E EE eee cl
16. Your default printer properties dialog will appear Adjust your printer settings and click the OK button The dialog box above will appear Once your printer is ready to receive the files click the OK button 47 Size Selected Objects Sizes all selected objects to the last selected object Before CorelDRAW X5 C Users Scott Documents My Dropbox EngravePro NET Testing Files Test Hl x File Edt View Layout Arange Effects Bitmaps Text Tools TEAS blo o Ea Ral 3 814 HAE C ua une 5 HBEVAE EO CON HEKYAE BE Layout Arrange Effects Bitmaps Text Tools Window Help Engra aa T o 248 v Snapto sc Gh UT SP PJ cP xl a 20 25 vl Units lt a gt 0 01 x lla U 5 25 tes ts inches T 0 25 zil 1 1 44 1 2 1 3 4 2 14 1 2 1 2 2 34 7 eel eer iar pea Yes teal ER Ter caer iar rien reat ber sos ek Let 12 ret teria EP EN ar ef EAS EAS st o WB BWAE CASASIN tO CASSIN UABKYAE Bi EA CASSIN E BBYAE 5 oO Size Selected Objects Width Sizes all selected objects to the last selected objects width Size Selected Objects Height Sizes all selected objects to the last selected objects height 48 SpacePlate Below is the SpacePlate toolbox You can even space selected objects or factor space objects in CorelDRAW Values entered into SpacePlate are either a percentage of plate width and or height or actual units inches centimeters etc Ree
17. by sa 3 0 http en wikipedia ore wiki OR code QR code abbreviated from Quick Response Code is the trademark for a type of matrix barcode or two dimensional bar code first designed for the automotive industry in Japan Bar codes are optical machine readable labels attached to items that record information related to the item It was initially patented however its patent holder has chosen not to exercise those rights Recently the QR Code system has become popular outside the automotive industry due to its fast readability and greater storage capacity compared to standard UPC barcodes The code consists of black modules square dots arranged in a square grid on a white background The information encoded may be made up of four standardized types modes of data numeric alphanumeric byte binary Kanji or through supported extensions virtually any type of data A QR code is read by an imaging device such as a camera and formatted algorithmically by underlying software using Reed Solomon error correction until the image can be appropriately interpreted Data is then extracted from patterns present in both horizontal and vertical components of the image As a variety of industries utilize the QR code today the applications for use can vary from product tracking item identification time tracking document management and general marketing purposes 96 Invention The QR code was invented in Japan by the Toyota subsidiary
18. differ in content than the one you see below but will still work the same C Program Files TMSi EngtavePro file1 txt 1 C Program Files TMSi EngravePro file2 txt 3 C Program Files TMSi EngravePro file3 txt 1 There are three fields of information for each line entered The first field is the directory where the file is stored The second field is the file name and the third field is how many lines from the specified file Field 1 Field 2 Field 3 will go on each plate Each field must be separated by a comma C Program Files TMSi EngravePro ifile3 txt If you started Variable Text and you chose a GLF then the following dialog box will appear when you click the Create Output Job menu item from the File Menu E File Import Manager Sa Files Options Directory Filename File Date Ti File Length Line Count Plate Lines BR ad C Users S file 1 bet 16 07 2002 CAUsers S file bet 16 07 2002 e C UsersS filed bt 16 07 2002 Yy Remove Number of Files 3 Let s look at what each button of the File Import Manager does The Add button adds a new file to your list Clicking the button will open an Open File dialog box allowing you to choose new files to add The Remove button removes the currently selected item from your list The Continue button proceeds with your Variable Text job The Cancel button cancels the Group List File import and returns you to the main screen 38 T
19. ee pani be an a ea kya n aipha OveiaPLeack ABVUILENS TGebUbeySTebiliokyagrovEsnht v kkal raim dghT iT exvenu 1g WHR e Tana JEVERER EH JV oe GERRARNRASHTNGOGESLO 1458 POSLER LE SPasetoIpe eh T api arroi eaer dpat aaya asai EROII Download the file and take it back to the PC you are trying to register Using the Browse button locate the response xml file Click the Next button 18 D pan a reece filer E you saved a resenred a reser fie you may oan ff bo campata lhe precese our request has bern possessed aene Glick Anish in enntinun Complete Manual Request VA Request Completed Lire agp on orice COT LL YL Ags iaia eee erra gece are Paste response Upon a successful registration you will get a confirmation dialog Deactivating EngravePro If you are changing PC s or any hardware within the current Pc it s a good idea to deactivate EneravePro This will free up an activation opportunity and allow you to reinstall it either on the current PC or on another PC You may deactivate EngravePro from the PC it is currently installed on or you can deactivate it manually from another machine Select Deactivate EngravePro from the Start Menu EngravePro menu A dialog box will appear Select Deactivate this workstation Click the Next button 7 B EngravePro License Management License Status Name Status Oo License OK Expires Friday April 25 2014 24 days Actions wantt
20. igen Elect Clty of Holly HIII Lines are factor spaced top to bottom and centered based upon the percentage entered into the Interline spacing box John Dee President Elect City of Helly Hil Lines are factor spaced top to bottom and left as they were laid out on the plate based upon the percentage entered into the Interline spacing box John Doe Presicient Elect City of Helly Hil Lines are factor spaced top to bottom and left justified based upon the percentage entered into the Interline spacing box Johnn Doe Pree idant Bact City of Holy Hil Lines are factor spaced top to bottom and right justified based upon the percentage entered into the Interline spacing box When the button is labeled Inches values entered into the Top Left Right and Bottom are considered to be in actual inches If the button is labeled Percentages then the values you enter are considered to be in percentages of the plate Left and Right are based upon a percentage of the plate width Top and Bottom are a percentage of the plate height 257 Some more examples of Spacing John Doe Clty cf Healy HIII We of the city wish to than you For your mony yeors of service 29 Year Anniversary November 23 200 Joe keD earm ort Miera Factored Spacing with a 10 percent top and bottom margin with 300 percent interline spacing 52 To the left an even spaced plaque John Doe City of Helly Hill We of the ci
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23. selected object to a circle in the size of the selected object Convert to Rectangle Converts the selected object to a rectangle in the size of the selected object Count Characters Counts characters in your document minus the spaces Displays count based upon selected text text on the current page and text in the entire document Set to Master Sets the current layout to the layout size of your engraver For example you could create a 1 x 3 name tag by setting the page size to 1 x 3 then when you are finished laying it out choose this option and it will set your page size to the actual engraver table size Variable Text Added the option to import fixed width and character delimited text files You now have the option to create your plates top to bottom as well as left to right You can also now group plates automatically during the import Added the last five files list to open commonly used files more quickly e Copy You now have the option to create your plates top to bottom as well as left to right e Tool Bar Added a toolbar to CorelDraw EngravePro EJ meaa aS How she 10 Prerequisites Important Please read and ensure you meet the following pre requisites prior to continuing Doing so will ensure a successful installation First you must have CorelDRAW version X7 installed Visual Basic for Applications VBA should have been installed when you installed Corel DRAW In the event Visual
24. that the Editor available when you cick Create a File is capable of creating text files from directories This will automatically create a text file of all graphic files in a specified folder for you Going back to the original example you should at this point select each line of text and set its justification in CorelDRAW Doing this ensures proper placement of the line By default CorelDRAW has its justification set to none When you are satisfied with your plate layout click the EngravePro menu and select Variable Text The following dialog appears Variable Text 15 0 4 0 File Help Single Plate Size File Stats Height 12 000 Width 24 000 4 Width 24 000 1 Columns Set the size for the material you will be using for the matrix From the File Menu you have three methods of input Methods of Input Open Opens a pre existing text file or alternatively a Group List File A Group List File is a text file containing the names of individual texts file you want to import into the same plate or job New Opens up a text editing window similar to NotePad From there you can type your lines of text for your current job You may also save or open a text file from within the Editor 63 From Clipboard Pastes text from the clipboard into your job If you have text on the clipboard this button will appear enabled Methods of Input Detailed Open If you want to input a pre existing fi
25. want to use 3 E e E Top and Bottom values Enter an amount you want to add to the top and or bottom of the plate for line spacing These values are only considered when you are factor spacing Left and Right values Left and right margins can be set and will be used when you choose left or right flush even or factored spacing This way you can set your left margin to 250 and click the Left Flush button thus aligning all of your text 250 from the left side of your plate Interline value The Interline spacing percentage is used to space lines according to their height and is only used during a Factored Spacing command Interline spacing is always in percentages of the line regardless of the Inches Percentages button state Note Line selection is not supported for Factored Spacing What each button does John Doe Taking the example plate to the right President Elect City of Helly Hill 49 Even Spacing John Doe Pregidient Elect City of Helly Hil Lines are evenly spaced top to bottom and centered J nn Doe President Elect City of Helly Hill Lines ate evenly spaced top to bottom and left as they were laid out on the plate Jonn Doe President Dect City of Hdly HII Lines ate evenly spaced top to bottom and left justified John Doe Prasident Bact City of Hally Hill Lines are evenly spaced top to bottom and right justified 50 Factored Spacing Jonn Doe Pres
26. 00 ECC 140 ECC 200 91 is capable of encoding the entire 8 bit ASCII character set in a highly efficient manner and therefore does not provide for or require any Data Format options In addition to encoding 8 bit ASCII data ECC 200 also allows for a special function code called FNC1 as well as special indicators for features like Structured Append and Extended Channel Interpretation Structured append is a means for generating multiple bar codes containing a much larger data message than can be encoded into a single symbol With structured append each bar code contains a portion of a larger data message along with a number that identifies the portion of the message contained in the symbol When a bar code reader scans a symbol that is part of a sequence it will not transmit the data until all symbols in a sequence have been read It does not matter what order the bar codes are read in the reader will correctly build the complete message Extended Channel Interpretation is a mechanism for creating user definable data encoding schemes For example suppose you wanted to replace the standard ASCII character set with a different character set a foreign language character set for example you could use the Extended Channel Interpretation feature in ECC 200 to indicate that the message encoded in a symbol conforms to the new interpretation Notes To encode data to conform to specific industry standard it needs to be authorized by AIM In
27. 2 29 Circle Copy Circle Copy is designed to enable the engraver to easily create copies of objects into a circular fashion le Circle Copy 15 0 3 0 5 2 000 Number of Copies Radius of Circle 0 180 Beginning Angle Ending Angle Baseline Alignment 7 Center Bottom Top pe s From this V First copy on begin angle a Leave the original copy passa gtttl Cancel Cancel To this in seconds Number of Copies Enter the number of copies you want to create from the selected original Radius of the Circle Enter the radius of the circle you want your object to be copied onto Beginning Angle Enter the beginning angle to start making copies Ending Angle Enter the ending angle you want to stop making copies to Baseline Alignment Allows you to specify how your objects will be positioned on the baseline of the circumference o f the circle First Copy on Begin Angle Specifies you want the first copy to start on the begin angle and the last copy to be on the end angle wy silly A UY SN Z J Ge S Zs A On Begin Angle Off Begin Angle Leave the Original Copy If you check this box Circle Copy will not delete the originally selected item you were copying from Useful if you want to continue making more Circle Copies from the same original object 30 Command Line Allows you to enter commands to create object you would otherwise create using your mouse Alth
28. 28 specification uses the same code set as Code 128 except that it does not allow function codes FNC2 FNC4 to be used in a symbol and FNC1 is used as part of the start code in the symbol Some applications for EAN UCC 128 require an additional Mod 10 check digit You can enable this check digit by setting the UccEan Check Digit property to True If the optional check digit is enabled the data that you supply in the Message property must consist of numeric characters only otherwise an error event is raised and no bar code symbol is generated 123 45 6 7 8 9 0 MSI PLESSEY is a variable length numeric only symbology The symbology is one of the earliest bar code symbologies ever developed and is based on a four bit binary number scheme Each symbol is framed by a start and a stop pattern and contains a check character that is calculated from the values of each of the encoded data digits MSI Plessey is rarely used in anything other than grocery store shelf marking applications Because the symbology is so rarely used most modern bar code readers do not provide support for MSI Plessey symbols EAN UCTC 128 MSI PLESSEY POSTNET POSTNET Postal Numeric Encoding Technique is a 5 9 or 11 digit numeric only bar code symbology used by the US Postal Service to encode ZIP Code information for automatic mail sorting 85 The bar code may represent a five digit ZIP Code 32 bars a nine digit ZIP 4 code 52 bars or an eleven digit
29. 33 rows with each row containing up to 30 modules The maximum data capacity for a MaxiCode symbol is 93 Alphanumeric or 138 Numeric characters The symbology was designed by United Parcel Service for package tracking applications The design of the MaxiCode symbology was chosen because it is well suited to high speed orientation independent scanning Although the capacity of a MaxiCode symbol is not as high as other matrix style symbologies it was primarily designed to encode address data which rarely requires more than 80 characters MaxiCode symbols actually encode two messages a Primary and a Secondary message The Primary message normally encodes a postal code a 3 digit country code and a 3 digit class of service number The Secondary message normally encodes an address and any other required data MaxiCode Modes MaxiCode has several Modes that determine how data is encoded in the symbol The original MaxiCode specification supported modes 0 and 1 which are now obsolete and are therefore not supported by the VariableText The mode is selected using the Maxi Code Mode property The current specification supports the following Modes 94 Mode 2 Structured Carrier Message Numeric Postal Codes up to 9 digits Mode 3 Structured Carrier Message AlphaNumeric Postal Codes up to 6 characters Mode 4 Standard Symbol Standard Error Correction Standard Symbol Enhanced Error Correction not supported Reader Programming Mo
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31. 76 77 78 78 79 79 80 UPC A UPC E and UPC Supplemental 80 EAN 8 EAN 13 and EAN Supplemental BookLand CODE 93 CODABAR INTERLEAVED 2 OF 5 ITF CODE 128 EAN UCC 128 MSI PLESSEY 81 82 83 83 83 84 85 85 POSTNET 85 PDF417 86 Aztec Code 89 Data Matrix 90 ECC 000 ECC 140 91 ECC200 91 Tilde Control Codes 92 Rectangular Data Matrix Symbols __ 94 MaxiCode 94 Quick Response Code QR Code 96 RSS 14 RSS 14 Stacked RSS 14 Stacked Omni directional and RSS Limited __ 108 Sample Job 111 Tips 116 Appendix 117 Software License Agreement PLEASE READ THIS SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT CAREFULLY BEFORE DOWNLOADING INSTALLING OR USING ENGRAVEPRO LLC SOFTWARE BY DOWNLOADING OR INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE YOU ARE CONSENTING TO BE BOUND BY THIS AGREEMENT IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT THEN DO NOT DOWNLOAD INSTALL OR USE THE SOFTWARE The following terms govern your use of the Software except to the extent a particular program a is the subject of a separate written agreement with EngravePro LLC or b includes a separate click on license agreement as part of the installation process License Subject to the terms and conditions of and except as otherwise provided in this Agreement EngravePro LLC EPLLC and its suppliers grant to Customer Customer a nonexclusive and nontransferable license to use the specific EPLLC program modules feature set s ot feature s for which Cu
32. Basic for Applications VBA is not installed you must re run Corel DRAW setup if If you currently have a prior version of CorelDRAW installed you must uninstall it Failing to do so will cause EngravePro not to work properly Upon uninstalling reboot your PC to ensure all files have been removed Install CorelDRAW if not already installed If your operating system is Win XP Vista Windows 7 or Windows 8 you must install Corel DRAW as a user with Administrator privileges Start Corel DRAW to initialize program defaults if you have just installed CorelDRAW for the first time Opening Corel DRAW will allow the EngravePro setup to continue Install any CorelDRAW service packs if any From the download page of EngravePro it will tell you what specific version and release number you need installed Running the EnegravePro setup will also alert you if you do not have the proper version and release Close CorelDRAW Reboot your PC 11 EngravePro Installation Assuming you have already installed Visual Basic for Applications you are now ready to begin installation What is important here is that you have CorelDRAW X7 AND Visual Basic for Applications installed If you do not have at least those two items installed the EngravePro setup may fail Please note if you are using Win XP Vista Windows 7 or Windows 8 it will be necessary for you to be logged in as the administrator or as a user with administrator privileges for t
33. CH code and two complete copies are included in each QR symbol The message data is placed from right to left in a zigzag pattern as shown below In larger symbols this is complicated by the presence of the alignment patterns and the use of multiple interleaved error correction blocks Meaning of format information 104 Feed patems Eo Formatinio Enc Encoding made Lan Message lengt E1 Emar comecton Biorder 1 ts MSE ajaj e i 7 aa CELAN lays a 3 lem ala q 2I in fis symbol dark is gan even rows Lon odd rows Message placement within a QR symbol Fou Pager E Farmin Ce Ce rer Carec ion t rane Ere Corecion Level H in am Bleck 1 Cabet 01 015 Gl Beek 2 Cabet 014 008 E E he Dee 0 01 Coe Made 1 o ihe maigai bi al ot a poe Larger symbol illustrating interleaved blocks Four bit indicators are used to select the encoding mode and convey other information Encoding modes can be mixed as needed within a QR symbol Indicator 0001 0010 0100 1000 0011 0111 0101 1001 0000 Encoding modes Meaning Numeric encoding 10 bits per 3 digits Alphanumeric encoding 11 bits per 2 characters Byte encoding 8 bits per character Kanji encoding 13 bits per character Structured append used to split a message across multiple QR symbols Extended Channel Interpretation select alternate character set or encoding FNC1 in first position see Code 128 for more in
34. Delivery Point code 62 bars POSTNET is unlike other bar codes because data is encoded in the height of the bars instead of in the widths of the bars and spaces Most commercially available bar code readers cannot decode POSTNET This symbology was chosen by the Postal Service mainly because it is extremely easy to print on almost any type of printer POSTNET is a fixed dimension symbology meaning that the height width and spacing of all bars must fit within tight tolerances VariableText will only create POSTNET bar codes that follow the guidelines published by the Postal Service The control does not allow you to set the size of POSTNET bar codes In other words the Narrow Bar Width Bar Width Reduction and the Bar Height preferences are ignored POSTNET also does not support human readable text quiet zones bearer bars or optional check digits VariableText will ignore non numeric data in any POSTNET bar code message For example if you supply Chicago IL 60601 3222 for the Message property of a POSTNET bar code the control will still create a correct bar code PDF 417 PDF 417 is a high density 2 dimensional bar code symbology that resembles a stacked set of smaller bar codes The symbology is capable of encoding the entire 256 character ASCII or ANSI character set PDF stands for Portable Data File because it can encode as many as 2710 data characters in a single bar code The complete specification for PDF417 provides many enc
35. Hill WILLI Holly Hill RONAL Oomiste PE e Fields Enclosed in Quotes rea rwan COMPANY ruu navem Field 3 RA ABBATE Employee EN ALDRICH Employee AMARA Employee AMAYA Employee NDERSON Employee EW ARMSTRONG Employee OPHER AZEVEDO Employee BARKER Employee RD BEAUREGARD Employee S BENTLEY Employee TH BINGHAM Employee AM BLISSETT Employee D BONIARSKI Employee Set the number of columns and then set the column width for each column you specified Note To work with either fixed width or delimited text files the name of your text file must have CSV for the file extension For example companies csv would tell Variable Text you want to work with delimited or fixed width text files while an extension of TXT would not If you want to create a file while in the Variable Text program click New from the File Menu A text editor will appear for you to enter your list of text E Ss A Ss Se ee File Edit Format You can simply enter text in the window much like you would if you were using Notepad Menu Choice Functions Explained File Menu 66 Continue Proceeds to the next step in your Variable Text job Open Opens a pre existing text file Save Saves your work to a file Import Folder Listing Allows you to create a text file of a chosen folder on your PC This is beneficial when you ate importing pictures into Variable Text When you choose this menu option the following di
36. If EngravePro runs out of room on the line it automatically wraps to the next line If EnegravePro runs out of room on the page it creates a new page and adds the plate to it Ce as mi ae oh Se ate ep at rhire XY Poa FU oye Oe Fal 33 Copy Pro CopyPro is designed to enable the engraver to easily position and copy plates for the purpose of matrix engraving CopyPro allows the engrave to set margins and offsets for plate positioning as well as creating borders both fixed and custom Let s describe the user interface first Below you will find a table with each of the commands or value boxes named and to the right a short explanation of what it does Tell CopyPro how many copies you want to make of your plate A setting of one here will move the plate into the upper left corner of your matrix plate and create the appropriate border if selected but will not duplicate any plates Number of Plates 1 Teortine Click the Continue button to co our plate based on your entered Continue settings Bai _ Settings Use this button to set the size of your engraving table Ow man The Material Tab is where you set the height and width of your Ths dae Mante wi yield plates hoazortally and platas a rarahan i engraving material The Offsets Tab is where you set your left and top margin as well as pas you in between space Too Border Vea e Left Border The amount of space to put between the le
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39. Siomai 784 0 771 OB x Nanment enkor profier RIG REA ITO ISE 1 OHK LLS Veh Camat TATE v2 Reayeznla Dat Gan F05 D iE ee ee E E E E T E S E E EA SET EE EA E EE EE E E gt Si Hbase natan A a NGRAVE IRO For CorelDRAW E lofl D Paget i NEE RT OI OE ae OE NCCT weer 56 Text Count Text Count counts the number of characters in your document Displays count based upon ar x selected text text on the current page and text in the entire document Text Count does not count the number of spaces in your layout Character Count 0 Word Count 0 Current Page Character Count 33 Word Count 9 Current Document Character Count 33 Word Count 9 oe 257 StampCut StampCut does pretty much what contouring does only one better If you are doing rubber stamps and want your laser to cut the stamp out use StampCut to automatically draw the cut out line B Stamp Cut 250 Offset Amount For example take the following stamp John Doe 123 Anywhere Road Anywhere USA 12345 John Doe 123 Anywhere Road Anywhere USA 12345 This will produce a cut border at the set distance around your stamp Of course the effect is not only great for stamps but for signs as well Variable Text Variable Text is used to import text and or pictures from files into a pre existing Core DRAW layout You can either import in a batch mode where yo
40. Version ENGRAVEPRO LLC EngravePro for Corel DRAW NGRAVE RO User Manual ENGRAVEPRO FOR CORELDRAW User Manual EneravePro LLC Email sales engravepro com EneravePro Auto Serialize Variable Text and SpacePlate are trademarks of EngravePro LLC Corel and Corel DRAW ate registered trademarks of Corel Corporation Adobe and Adobe Acrobat are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners Last Revised May 12 2014 Table of Contents Software License Agreement Acknowledgement Introduction What s New Prerequisites How to Register EngravePro Activating EngravePro Manually Deactivating EngravePro Deactivating EngravePro Manually___ Auto Condense Circle Copy Command Line Copy Plate Copy Pro Cut Marks Flip Page Group List File Make Circle Make Entry Point Make Grid Make Line Make Square Move Objects Home Move Rulers to Home Print Job Size Selected Objects SpacePlate O N Q A 11 16 17 19 20 22 30 31 33 34 36 37 38 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 Show Direction Reset Object Rotate Page Set to Master Text Count StampCut Variable Text Tokens Examples of Borders and Grid Cutout Tile Objects Creating Custom Borders Invert Selection Join Nodes Barcodes Normal Code 39 Full ASCII Code 39 HIBC Code 39 Code 39 Symbol Concatenation 54 55 55 56 57 58 58 58 73 74 75
41. ach Thus an advert viewer need only reach for his or her phone and speak the URL at the moment of ad contact rather than remember to type it into a PC later H 99 Virtual stores During the month of June 2011 according to one study 14 million mobile users scanned a QR code or a barcode Some 58 of those users scanned a QR or bar code from their homes while 39 scanned from retail stores 53 of the 14 million users were men between the ages of 18 and 34 4 The use of QR codes for virtual store formats started in South Korea P and Argentina but is currently expanding globally Big companies such as Walmart Procter amp Gamble and Woolworths have already adopted the Virtual Store concept FH Code payments QR codes can be used to store a bank account information or a credit card information or they can be specifically designed to work with particular payment provider applications There are several trial applications of QR code payments across the world PL8 In November 2012 QR code payments were deployed on a larger scale in the Czech Republic when an open format for payment information exchange a Short Payment Descriptor was introduced and endorsed by the Czech Banking Association as the official local solution for QR payments 4 Website login QR codes can be used to log in into websites a QR Code is shown on the login page on a computer screen and when a registered user scans it with a verified smartpho
42. acters may be used to represent the time separator The time separator separates hours minutes and seconds when time values are formatted The actual character used as the time separator in formatted output is determined by your system settings Date separator In some locales other characters may be used to represent the date separator The date separator separates the day month and year when date values are formatted The actual character used as the date separator in formatted output is determined by your system settings c Display the date as ddddd and display the time as ttttt in that order Display only date information if there is no fractional part to the date serial number display only time information if there is no integer portion C Me ddddd Display the date as a complete date including day month and year formatted according to your system s short date format setting The default short date format is m d yy Display a date serial number as a complete date including day month and year formatted according to the dddddd l i long date setting recognized by your system The default long date format is mmmm dad yyyy Display the day of the week as a number 1 for Sunday through 7 for Saturday Display the week of the year as a number 1 54 H Display the month as a number without a leading zero 1 12 If m immediately follows h or hh the minute rather than the month is displayed Display the month as a num
43. alog box will appear le Directory Import Choose what and how you want to import Full Path and Filename 1 Line D Just the Filename 1 Line 0 Full Path and Filename on first line Filename on second line 2 Lines EXAMPLE CAClipart rocky eps Text should be made Uppercase Lowercase EX ROCKY EPS iol The options are as follows Full Path and Filename Create a single line of text in your file containing the full path and filename Just the Filename Create a single line of text in your file containing only the filename Full Path and Filename on first line Filename on second line Creates two lines of text in your file containing the full path and filename on the first line and the filename on the second line This is useful when you want to create a thumbnail sheet in Corel DRAW and you want to label each thumbnail with the filename After choosing your options click the OK button to continue The following Dialog Box will appear 67 Browse For Folder Choose the folder you want to import an IDAutomation_2DFormsControlsDEl ae images m Projects Ji Protection Plus z samples W Setup wi Testing Files an Working Images Hib x5 wn Make New Folder Cancel Navigate to the folder containing the files you want and click the OK button Your text editor will now contain the information you selected Cancel Closes the editor Edit Menu Undo Will undo your last e
44. ample jobs Click Sample 1 A Corel DRAW job will open and reveal the following layout 1 2 City of Holly Hil Notice the 1 and 2 This formatting is what tells Variable Text where to place your text from your import file Each line from your text file corresponds to the particular formatting number In the above job Variable Text will import two lines of text from the file you specified and then create a new plate For each line of text you want imported from your file into one plate you must have one formatting line numbered sequentially Group lines of text will not work If you group formatting lines together Variable Text will ignore the line Importing Graphics If you want to use Variable Text to automatically import graphic files you need to add a paragraph text line like what is shown below The paragraph box should be sized according to the desired size of your imported graphic and should contain the normal placeholder as in the example below Yo 2 So City of Holly Hill In your text file the line of text that corresponds to you image will contain the full path and filename of the image to be imported So for example If I wanted a name tag that had John Doe Supervisor with the city logo my text will would contain the following three lines 62 John Doe Supervisor c Clipart citylogo eps This produces the following name tag Supervisor WS City of Holly Hil You should note
45. atic identification and data capture techniques OR code 2005 bar code symbology specification Defines QR code 2005 symbols an extension of QR code model 2 Does not specify how to read QR code model 1 symbols or require this for compliance At the application layer there is some variation between most of the implementations Japan s NTT DoCoMo has established de facto standards for the encoding of URLs contact information and several other data types The open source ZXing project maintains a list of QR code data types 97 Uses Originally designed for industrial uses QR codes have become common in consumer advertising Smartphone users can install an app with a QR code scanner that can read a displayed code and convert it to a URL directing the smartphone s browser to the website of a company store or product associated with that code providing specific information In the shopping industry knowing what causes the consumers to be motivated when approaching products by the use of QR codes advertisers and marketers can use the behavior of scanning to get consumers to buy causing it to have the best impact on ad and marketing design As a result the QR code has become a focus of advertising strategy since it provides quick and effortless access to the brand s website HHH Beyond mere convenience to the consumer the importance of this capability is that it increases the conversion rate that is increases the
46. ber with a leading zero 01 12 If m immediately follows h or hh the minute mm na rather than the month is displayed Display the month as an abbreviation Jan Dec Display the month as a full month name January December ha Display the quarter of the year as a number 1 4 59 Display a time as a complete time including hour minute and second formatted using the time separator ttttt defined by the time format recognized by your system A leading zero is displayed if the leading zero option is selected and the time is before 10 00 A M or P M The default time format is h mmiss Use the 12 hour clock and display an uppercase AM with any hour before noon display an uppercase PM with any hour between noon and 11 59 P M AM PM Use the 12 hour clock and display a lowercase AM with any hour before noon display a lowercase PM with any am pm hour between noon and 11 59 P M Use the 12 hour clock and display an uppercase A with any hour before noon display an uppercase P with any A P hour between noon and 11 59 P M 3 Use the 12 hour clock and display a lowercase A with any hour before noon display a lowercase P with any P hour between noon and 11 59 P M Use the 12 hour clock and display the AM string literal as defined by your system with any hour before noon display the PM string literal as defined by your system with any hour between noon and 11 59 P M AMPM can be either uppercase or lowerca
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48. chance that contact with the advertisement will convert to a sale by coaxing qualified prospects further down the conversion funnel without any delay or effort bringing the viewer to the advertiser s site immediately where a longer and more targeted sales pitch may continue Although initially used to track parts in vehicle manufacturing QR codes are now as of 2012 used over a much wider range of applications including commercial tracking entertainment and transport ticketing product loyalty marketing examples mobile couponing where a company s discounted and percent discount can be captured using a QR code decoder which is a mobile app or storing a company s information such as address and related information alongside its alpha numeric text data as can be seen in Yellow Pages directory and in store product labeling It can also be used in storing personal information for use by government An example of this is Philippines National Bureau of Investigation NBI where NBI clearances now come with a QR code Many of these applications target mobile phone users via mobile tagging Users may receive text add a vCard contact to their device open a Uniform Resource Identifier URI or compose an e mail or text message after scanning QR codes They can generate and print their own QR codes for others to scan and use by visiting one of several pay or free QR code generating sites or apps Google has a popular API to generate QR codes 4 and a
49. cluding the content and format of the data in the primary and secondary messages a special sequence of header characters and the specific characters to be used as delimiters or format codes and application identifiers For complete details on how to encode Structured Carrier Messages conforming to the UPS standards please contact your local United Parcel Service representative or visit the UPS web site at http www maxicode com VariableText does not attempt to format the data in any way except in a special case as outlined below In other words when you use VartableText to produce a Mode 2 or Mode 3 bar code you must provide all required data for the primary message and the data in the secondary message must contain all required header delimiter and special formatting characters As a convenience VariableText will automatically parse out a Postal Code the Country Code and the Service Class from any message that is passed in as a structured carrier message starting with the character sequence gt RSO1 GS yy In other words if the input message passed in the Message property to the control starts with the string gt RS 01 GS yyaaaaaaaaa GS bbb GS ccc GS where yy is a two digit year aaaaaaaaa is a valid postal code bbb is a three digit country code and ccc is a class value VariableText will automatically set the Postal Code Country Code and Service Class parameters for the primary message to the values embedded in the input messa
50. coded into a parity pattern for the six main digits Many bar code readers can be configured to automatically uncompress UPC E symbols into their 12 digit equivalent before transferring the data to a computer When specifying UPC A or UPC E messages you may pass a message with either 6 7 11 or 12 digits If you pass a message with 6 or 7 digits VariableText will generate a UPC E symbol If you pass 7 80 digits the 7th digit will be removed The control will assume that you are entering a message complete with check digit If you pass a message with 11 or 12 digits VariableText will generate a UPC A symbol If you pass 12 digits the 12th digit will be removed Again the control will assume that you are entering a message with a check digit VartableText will automatically calculate the check digit for you and appends it to your bar code message text This insures that you always have the correct check digit Both UPC A and UPC E allow for a supplemental two or five digit number to be appended to the main bar code symbol The supplemental is a small additional bar code that is added onto the right side of a standard UPC symbol This supplemental message was designed for use on publications and periodicals To include a supplemental message append it to the main message with a comma separating it from the main message If you enter a supplemental message it must consist of either two or five numeric digits The following table contains sam
51. corners The radius is a value in inches You File 1 Une File 1 Line City of Holly HII City of Holly Hil may enter a radius equal to one half the length pe 2 sor height whichever is smaller File 1 Line 1 W File 1 Line 3 Vf When the button is in the locked mode you may enter a value in any of the four corners of the radius and it will automatically change the other three corners for you Lets you enter a radius in each corner independent of the other three corners Convert Text To Curves After Variable Text has imported the line of text it converts the text to curves when this check box is checked It has been shown that some fonts do not engrave well on lasers when printed to the laser as a font Converting the text to curves improves engraving quality Once you have entered the desired values click the Okay button The next message you will see is one asking if you want to specify margins Clicking Yes will result in the following dialog box being displayed Fa l Margins Set your margins for each line Line Number Line 2 Center Line 3 Center Left Margin 0 125 0 125 Right Margin 0 125 0 125 0 125 You will notice that for each line of Variable Text you specified in Corel DRAW there is an entry in the dialog box You may specify each lines margin accordingly If all lines are to have the same margin enter the margins for the first line then click the All Lines the Same ch
52. cutaway view of what you will see in CorelDRAW 115 Tips Vartable Text Always set the justification of your text 1 e left right center prior to using Variable Text or Auto Serialize Always save your template layout prior to running Variable Text so that you may use File Revert if you are not happy with the results This way you may easily and quickly repeat your Variable Text function after corrections or changes are made Open up the sample job in the EngravePro program group located under Start Programs EneravePro This way you will see how to establish variable line locations Variable lines are simply the places that you wish your different text such as names to go on each plate We use 01 as the first line locator for the first text insertion If the layout has more than one line of variable text we use 02 and so on There is no limit to the number of variable lines In a simple name badge layout you may have three lines The first line will be where the name goes Line two may be where the appropriate title goes The third line will be the same on every badge The layout or Template would look something like this Yo Yo 2 First National Bank In the Variable Text mode you can open up a saved txt file type in a list of variables such as names or names and titles or copy a list of variables for another location such as e mail or any other application where the required text may currently be T
53. de Modes 2 and 3 are reserved for use as a destination sortation symbol for use by carriers in the transportation industry In Modes 2 and 3 a postal code a country code and a service class number must be supplied along with a secondary message usually consisting of an address Mode 4 is designed to encode data as a standard bar code symbol where the data encoded in the symbol is not restricted to a specific application In other words Mode 4 should be used in all general purpose bar code applications other than transportation industry applications Mode 5 is similar to mode 4 except that a higher level of error correction is employed Because more symbol real estate us used for error correction in Mode 5 the amount of actual data that can be encoded in a Mode 5 symbol is reduced The VariableText does not support Mode 5 Mode 6 is reserved for bar code reader programming purposes and it has been left up to the bar code reader manufacturers to determine how to interpret data encoded using Mode 6 Structured Carrier Messages in Mode 2 and 3 MaxiCode Symbols VariableText provides input properties for each of the three required Primary message fields Postal Code Country Code and Service Class as well as a property for the secondary message the Message property United Parcel Service has defined a special standard for formatting data in a MaxiCode symbol for use in UPS package tracking applications The standard defines several things in
54. dit Cut Cuts the selected text to the clipboard and removes it from your text window Copy Copies the selected text to the clipboard Paste Pastes text on the clipboard into your text window Select All Selects all text in the window Change Case Upper Changes all selected text to upper case Example City Manager changes to CITY MANAGER Lower Changes all selected text to lower case Example City Manager changes to city manager First Letter Changes all selected text so that the first letter of each word 1s capitalized Example city manager changes to City Manager First Word Changes the first letter of the first word to uppercase Example City Manager changes to City manager Invert Inverts the case of all selected text So if the character is capitalized this function will make it lower case If the letter is lower case then it will capitalize it Example City Manager changes to CITY mANAGER Reverse Reverse the selected text Example City Manager changes to reganaM ytiC Simply uses the text on the clipboard to fill in your plates If there is no text on the clipboard this button will be grayed out and unavailable The clipboard is useful if you want to copy lines of text from another application 68 Regardless of what method of input you use you will see the following dialogs Choose your method of import and complete any steps if necessary When you do the message on the left w
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56. e except to the extent a rr agree to the terms of this license agreement do not agree to the terms of this license agreement lt Back 12 5 Setup will display a user information screen Enter your information and click the next button Name Scott Company Toshiba ka A ZA o i lt Back S Next gt f Cancel 6 Next Setup will ask you the unit of measurement you want to use Make your selection and then click the Next button Select the desired unit of measurement Inches Centimeters Millimeters 7 Next enter the width and height of the engraving or print area of your device Press the Next button when you are done entering the requested values Fill in the items below and click Next to continue Enter the width and height of your engraving or printing are Output Width in Inches 38 00 Output Height in Inches 20 00 8 Setup will now ask you if you want to install the EneravePro workspace This will change the default workspace to an EngravePro workspace You can always import the workspace later if you want 13 Do you want this installation to install the EngravePro Work Yes No ma Bak Next gt Cancel 9 Setup will now display a default folder location in which to install EngravePro Unless you have a specific reason not to you should accept the defaults by clicking the Next button Where would yo
57. e symbols have a larger bulls eye pattern and can have up to 32 layers of data surrounding the bulls eye Do not confuse Layers with modules A layer actually is made up of two stacked modules resembling a domino with each domino laid out around the bulls eye pattern so that the long edge of the domino points away from the center of the symbol If you set VariableText to generate Compact or Full Range Aztec symbols you must also specify the total number of data layers in the symbol using the Aztec Total Layers property If the total number of data layers is greater than the amount of layers required to encode a particular message the remaining layers are filled with error correction data If the amount of data that you need to encode will not fit in the number of data layers that you specify an error event will be raised and no bar code symbol will be generated Menu symbols are a special type of Aztec bar code that are typically used by scanner manufacturers to create bar codes that contain commands for enabling and disabling features in a bar code reader Menu symbols can be either Compact or Full Range symbols and are only useful if you know the commands that a particular reader will recognize VariableText does not provide support for Aztec Menu symbols Data Matrix Data Matrix is a high density 2 dimensional matrix style bar code symbology that can encode up to 3116 characters from the entire 256 byte ASCII character set The symbol is built o
58. e that is the total size of the selection box of the selected objects Before After You can also select multiple objects and convert the group to a single circle Before After 40 Make Entry Point Make Entry Point allows you to change where your engraver will start cutting a curve object Look at the following illustration This is my original entry point for the inside of this letter A By selecting a different node and using Make Entry Point have changed the starting point this object It is especially import to remember that you can only change the entry point of a curve object This means you will have to convert to curves any text circle square objects you created using Corel tools To convert to curves select the object you want to modify click the Arrange menu then click convert to curves 41 Make Grid Make grid allows you to automatically create a grid pattern of the size you specify You set the number of rows and columns and how big the cell is r P Create Grid 15 0 4 0 Results Now you can create grid cells the size you want and the lines are already optimized for vector output Rows Enter the number of rows you want Columns Enter the number of columns you want Cell Size Top to Bottom Enter the vertical height of the cell Left to Right Enter the horizontal width of the cell 42 Make Line
59. e use of 8 bit codewords an individual code block cannot be more than 255 codewords in length Since the larger QR symbols contain much more data than that it is necessary to break the message up into multiple blocks The QR specification does not use the largest possible block size though instead it defines the block sizes so that no more than 30 error correction symbols appear in each block This means that at most 15 errors per block can be corrected which limits the complexity of certain steps in the decoding algorithm The code blocks are then interleaved together making it less likely that localized damage to a QR symbol will overwhelm the capacity of any single block Thanks to error correction it is possible to create artistic QR codes that still scan correctly but contain intentional errors to make them more readable or attractive to the human eye as well as to incorporate colors logos and other features into the QR code block 24 851 Encoding The format information records two things the error correction level and the mask pattern used for the symbol Masking is used to break up patterns in the data area that might confuse a scanner such as large blank areas or misleading features that look like the locator marks The mask patterns are defined on a grid that is repeated as necessary to cover the whole symbol Modules corresponding to the dark areas of the mask are inverted The format information is protected from errors with a B
60. eckbox Keep in mind that when you set margins all your lines will be condensed to fit the specified width and they will be centered on the line Navigating around the fields in this dialog box is easy Click on the first value to be entered press the Enter key You will notice your selection box will move to the next cell Press Enter again and 71 you will be in edit mode Enter your values and repeat the process Upon completing all the margins click the Okay button As Variable Text process your file a Status Bar will appear to let you know the progress of the impott 72 Examples of Borders and Grid Cutout TEST PLATE TES SEGOND LINE SEG TEST PLATE TES SECOND LINE SEG TEST PLATE TES SECOND LINE SEG we TEST PLATE SECOND LINE TEST PLATE SECOND LINE ra Tg oo fa TEST PLATE Ceoermaie l RIC no TE TEST PLATE J C SECOND LINE _ SEC ee _ J TEST PLATE J L TE SECOND LINE SEC wooo re D TEST PLATE r TE Grid Cutout with a 125 top and left border Borders are selected They have a 125 top and left border and a 3 horizontal Space and a 4 Vertical Space Custom Borders are selected They have a 125 top and left border and a 3 horizontal Space and a 4 Vertical Space 73 Tile Objects Tile Objects automatically tiles the selected objects based upon the distance you specify Take the followin
61. ent and also on the resolution of the printer being used to produce the bar code The specification for PDF417 recommends that the module width should fall in a range between 10 and 30 mils The smallest allowable module width defined in the symbology specification is 6 56 mils This translates to 2 printer dots when printing to a 300 DPI laser printer The best way to determine the ideal module width for your application is to actually print out a sample bar code using several different values and try reading each one with your scanning equipment Again you should choose the value that produces bar codes with the best read rate The recommended value for the PDF Module Height is three times the value for the PDF Module Width however the symbol specifications allow for module heights as small as 10 mils 3 printer dots on a 300 DPI laser printer The value for the PDF Aspect Ratio property determines the overall shape of the PDF417 symbol and is defined as the overall height to width ratio Higher values for the PDF Aspect Ratio greater than 1 produce tall thin PDF417 bar codes and small values greater than zero and less than 1 produce short wide bar codes A value of 1 should produce approximately square bar codes Because each row of data in a PDF417 symbol contains 2 additional code words of overhead right and left row indicators as well as start and stop patterns tall and thin 87 bar codes with lots of rows high aspect ratios
62. equentially and contain two additional lines of text The first line is to have the word Serial followed by the serial number the next line is to say Mfer Date 4 15 2002 and finally the third line is to say XYZ Incorporated All text should be centered They want the tags to be 1 5 inches top to bottom and 3 5 inches left to right Each plate is to have corners with a radius of 25 inches The serial number consists of 3 fields The first field will be static text of AS400 The second field will be a 3 digit numeric field consisting of numbers 1 thru 100 The third field will be Alpha and will start with the letter A and repeat as needed This will be step by step instructions on how to use the EngravePro tools Although each tool is designed to be used separately a simple job utilizing all tools should give you some insight as to what each tool is capable of and how to use them Getting Started 1 Open CorelDRAW 2 Create a new document 3 Change your page size to 1 5 inches tall by 3 5 inches left to right You can do this by entering 1 values on your toolbar as in the photo or click the Tools toas T mjm menu then click Customization When the dialog appears click t t Document Page and finally Size There you can enter your values as well 4 Put three lines of Artistic Text on your page by clicking the A tool in your tool work bar then clicking on your page For the first line of text enter
63. er is 100 and you want all of your plates to have three digits you would enter a pad amount of 3 Now all plates regardless of their number would have three digits in this field So 1 would be 001 2 would be 002 and so on Increment Sequence tells Auto Serialize how to increment your number value for this particular field Usually this value is 1 every 1 plate You can for example increment 1 for every two plates Then for each two plates this field would have the same value Fixed The field may contain any characters and will remain the same on all plates in this field position Enter your desired text in the box This field will be the same on all plates 24 Field Type Numeric Fixed Alpha A E Upper Case Starting character Ending character Increment sequence 1 every I Plate s Alpha Characters only Alpha works the same as the Numeric field type except Alpha uses letters of the alphabet Starting Character is the character between A and Z you want to start with Ending Character is the last character you want to use in your sequence Upper Case will make your letters appear in capitals Increment Sequence tells Auto Serialize how to increment your alpha value for this particular field Usually this value is 1 every 1 plate You can for example increment 1 for every two plates Then for each two plates this field would have the same value 598 ALPHA A Preview Line If you look toward
64. format your barcode and takes no format control from CorelDRAW This is contrary to using VariableText normally where size font color etc are derived from the line of text used by the token Normal Code 39 123 4 5 6 7890 The Normal CODE 39 is a variable length symbology that can encode the following 44 characters 1234567890ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPORSTUVWXYZ Code 39 is the most popular symbology in the non retail world and is used extensively in manufacturing military and health care applications Each Code 39 bar code is framed by a start stop character represented by an asterisk The Asterisk is reserved for this purpose and may not be used in the body of a message VariableText automatically adds the start and stop character to each bar code therefore you should not include them as part of your bar code message If you select the Normal version of Code 39 and your bar code text contains lower case characters the control will convert them to upper case If your bar code text contains invalid characters the control will raise an error event with the error code for an Invalid Message error and a bar code will not be generated Code 39 allows for an optional modulo 43 check The health care industry has adopted the use of this check character for health care applications HIBC bar codes To enable the Code 39 check set the Code39 Check Digit preference to True When this option is enabled the control will automat
65. formation FNC1 in second position End of message After every indicator that selects an encoding mode is a length field that tells how many characters are encoded in that mode The number of bits in the length field depends on the encoding and the symbol version Number of bits per length field 105 Encoding Ver 1 9 10 26 27 40 Numeric 10 12 14 Alphanumeric 9 11 13 Byte 8 16 16 Kanji 8 10 12 Alphanumeric encoding mode stores a message more compactly than the byte mode can but cannot store lower case letters and has only a limited selection of punctuation marks which are sufficient for most web addresses Two characters are coded in an 11 bit value by this formula V 45XxXCGi C2 Alphanumertic character codes Code Character Code Character Code Character Code Character Code Character 00 0 09 9 18 I 27 R 36 SP 01 1 10 A 19 J 28 S 37 02 2 11 B 20 K 29 T 38 03 3 12 C 21 L 30 U 39 04 4 13 D 2 M 31 V 40 05 5 14 E 23 N 32 W 41 06 6 15 F 24 O 3 X 42 07 7 16 G 25 P 34 Y 43 08 8 17 H 26 Q 35 Z 44 Decoding example The following images offer more information about the QR code 2 Structure 106 FE q n 3 Layout amp Encoding 5 Protocols License The use of QR codes is free of any license The QR code is clearly defined and published as an ISO standard Denso Wave owns the patent rights on QR codes but has chosen not to exercise them t In the USA the g
66. ft edge of your Matrix Plate and the left edge of your first column of plates Top Border The amount of space to put between the top edge of your Matrix Plate and the top edge of your first column of plates Horizontal Spacing Amount of space to put between plates left to right Vertical Spacing Amount of space to put between plates top to bottom 34 Material Cllsota Borders Girection 2 Nore Boeken Corte Cha Cul Cunen erder Material Cfeete Berens Cirection Aiye faae 0000 ao Borde amp Padus ori Luit 0 000 0000 Mern racial Tre Het ee plate pou have m amp 000 Coan foia Gri Curu D Cam Border Codan Border Mamin Ofaa Bondera Direction Copy Lof to Hi 1 Copy Tap te Borner pF EF B Ciel The Borders tab will let you define what type of borders or grid you want You have a choice of None Grid cutout Borders or Custom None and Grid cutout have no special settings other than to select them The other two are further defined below When you select Borders you have the option of putting a squate rectangular border around your plate Or if you prefer you can set each corner to a radius If you click the Lock Unlock button and you are in Lock Mode making a change to one corner will be reflected in all corners A Custom Bordet is one you create in CorelDRAW or any other drawing package capable of outputting Enhanced Windows Metafiles EMP The preview windo
67. g layout for example e ejejejejeje e 0 elelelelelele ejejejejojejo Before Tiling After Tiling Tiling works with any object not just objects of the same type So for example you can mix text in with drawing objects or clipart olelelelelele Tiling or i ec EF Tile 15 0 4 0 To tile simply create your objects on the page select only the objects you want to tile then click Tile Objects in the EngravePro menu Enter the gap distance between tiles and click ok Once you are satisfied with 125 the results click the close button Gap Distance Left to Right 125 Top to Bottom Create Cancel 74 Creating Custom Borders When creating custom borders a few important points should be considered Draw your border at the proper aspect ratio In other words if your plate is going to be 1 inch tall and 12 inches long create your border at 1 inch tall and 12 long or a 1 12 ratio If you make it 3 inches tall and 12 inches long when you use it for your border it will distort thus producing undesired results If you are intending on using the border as a cutout make sure you set the line width to 001 and its color to red before saving the file By default CopyPro looks in the Program Files TMSi EngravePro Borders Directory for borders However you can load your borders from anywhere on your PC When saving your Border from CorelDRAW select your border and export it with the Selected Only
68. ge These values will also be removed from the secondary message Note The RS and GS symbols used here represent ASCH characters 30 and 29 respectively For example if the following message is supplied in the Message property the Postal Code Country Code and Service Class will be extracted from the Message and placed in the Maxi Zip Code Maxi 95 Country Code and Maxi Code Class properties automatically so that you do not need to fill in these properties in advance gt RSO1GS98152382802 GS 840GS001GS1Z 00004951GSU PSNGS06X710GS159GS1234567GS 1 1GSGSYGS634 ALPHA DRIVEGSPITTSBURGHGSPARSEOT If the above message is supplied in the Message property with the Maxi Code Mode property set to 2 ot 3 the Postal Code value 152382802 and the Country Code value 840 and the Service Class value 001 will be removed from the secondaty message and automatically encoded in the primary message The actual message that will be encoded in the secondary message will be gt RSO1 GS981Z00004951 GS UPSN GS 06X710 GS 159 GS 1234567 GS 1 1 GS GS Y GS 634 ALPHA DRIVEGSPITTSBURGHGSPA RS EOT Note In Mode 2 the Postal Code parameter must be either a 5 or 9 digit number all numeric characters and in Mode 3 the Postal Code may contain up to 6 Alphanumeric characters Quick Response Code OR Code OF This taken from Wikipedia with their permission subject to the following licensing agreement http creativecommons org licenses
69. gher level of error correction designated as follows ECC 000 ECC 050 Provides error correction for damage of up to 2 8 of the printed symbol ECC 080 Provides error correction for damage of up to 5 5 of the printed symbol ECC 100 Provides error correction for damage of up to 12 6 of the printed symbol ECC 140 Provides error correction for damage of up to 25 of the printed symbol For all five ECC levels ECC 000 ECC 140 there is also a user selectable option for a Data Format which defines the type of data that may be encoded in a Data Matrix symbol The data format is selected using the Data Matrix Format ID property The available formats are listed below Format ID llowable Data In The Bar Code Message umeric digits 0 to 9 and the space character p bit ASCII all ASCII characters between ASCII 0 to ASCII 127 8 bit ASCII all ASCII characters between ASCII 0 to ASCII 255 3 ECC200 ECC 200 is the latest and most advanced version of Data Matrix and is therefore strongly recommended for use in all new Data Matrix applications ECC 200 uses a Reed Solomon error correction algorithm that will automatically provide a varying degree of error correction for damage ranging from a minimum of roughly 20 to greater than 60 damage depending on the amount of data encoded ECC200 also uses a code set switching mechanism that is much mote efficient at packing data into a symbol than any of the earlier encoding schemes ECC 0
70. gles lines and circles Rotate Page Rotates your page to the left or right similar to change from portrait to landscape but moves all your objects on the page as well Before ieee E ar t NGRAVE IRO For CorelDRAW NGRAVE IRO For CorelDRAW NGRAVE IRO For CorelDRAW NGRAVE IRO For CorelDRAW q zj TEE Ro f OR or COADA NGRAVE Ro For Coe OPP AF NTE S T tf NGRAVE RO For EET NGRAVE RB ror Cores hans uns gt mej i l laad nens Seawind old uk OWA tei ASAS VAALAS a A A aE r 55 Set to Master Set the current layout to the layout size of your engraver The maximum layout size for your engravet is set during installation of EngravePro If you need to change this size click CopyPro In the dialog box click the Settings button and enter your maximum layout size which is normally the maximum engraving area for your laser or engraver To illustrate you could create a 1 x 3 name tag by setting the paper size in Corel DRAW to 1 x 3 then when you ate finished laying out your graphic choose Set to Master and it will set your page size to the actual engraver table size and move your graphic to the upper left corner of the page Before ee SEE J le wt li sil og j 235 SRR TSR A Ra RAR JE oars vo As DAA en A LE EAP PE ne AA ee DRA oR APRA GE nt ol WC ees Berd S SB k EEEE x Poetion NE Es al fa a ikg CA A 4 gt s D 3 D Y X BEM ioi gt y
71. h of your lines You may also type in a value Notice how when you make a field selection in the Lines area the How many fields changes to show you what line you are working on Field Type The Field Type tabs let you set what type the field will be as well as present Numeric Fixed Alpha you the options for that field type 23 Your choices are Field Type Numeric Fixed Alpha 1 100 Start Count Starting number Ending number Pad amount 0 Increment sequence al every 1 gt Plate s Numeric This field will contain only numbers When you make this selection you will see the following Starting Number is the number you want your first plate to start with Ending Number is the last number of your sequence Usually this is the number of yout last plate however if you want a particular number sequence to repeat itself then you would set this number to a value less then the number of plates For example if you have 100 plates and you want this field to start over every 10 plates then you set this value to 10 Start Count automatically sets the ending number to the starting number plus the number of plates you specified in the first dialog So for example if you set your number of plates to34 and you check the Start Count checkbox the ending number will automatically change to 34 Pad Amount is the number of spaces you want to pad your value with zeros For example if your ending numb
72. haracter of a Code 39 symbol is a space some readers will store the remainder of the symbol in a buffer and not transmit the data This operation continues for all successtve Code 39 symbols with a leading space with each message appended to the previous one When a message without a leading space is read it is appended to the previously scanned data and the entire buffer is transmitted as one long message UPC A UPC E and UPC Supplemental 1 23456 78901 2 UPC A is a 12 digit numeric symbology used in retail applications UPC A symbols consist of 11 data digits and one check digit The first digit is a number system digit that usually represents the type of product being identified The following 5 digits are a manufacturer s code and the next 5 digits are used to identify a specific product UPC numbers are assigned to manufacturers by the Uniform Code Council UCC For more information contact the UCC at 8163 Old Yankee Road Suite J Dayton OH 45458 Tel 937 435 3870 web site http www uc council ore UPC E is a smaller six digit UPC symbology for number system 0 It is often used for small retail items like candy and cigarettes UPC E is also called zero suppressed because UPC E compresses a normal 12 digit UPC A code into a six digit code by suppressing the number system digit trailing zeros in the manufacturers code and leading zeros in the product identification part of the bar code A seventh check digit is en
73. he machine you are installing EngravePro on Run the setup by right clicking the setup file and clicking Run as Administrator Let s begin the installation 1 Ifyou have not already done so download the appropriate version of EngravePro from http www eneravepro com 2 Upon completing the download double click the setup file to begin installing EnegravePro 3 Upon setup starting you will see a welcome screen Read the information and click the Next button P ro Welcome Welcome to the installer for 3 Itis strongly recommended that programs before continuing with A If you have any other programs Cancel close the programs setup again Otherwise click Next to contin Lb 4 Read carefully the license agreement now being displayed If you accept the license agreement click the I agree to the terms of this license agreement radio button then click the next button If you do not agree click the cancel button and end the installation EngravePro Setup Se Please read the following license agreement m PLEASE READ THIS SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT CAREFULLY BEFORE DOWNLOADING INSTALLING OR USING THERMALMOTION _ SYSTEMS INC SOFTWARE BY DOWNLOADING OR INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE YOU ARE CONSENTING TO BE BOUND BY THIS AGREEMENT IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT THEN DO NOT DOWNLOAD INSTALL OR USE THE SOFTWARE The following terms govern your use of the Softwar
74. he Help button displays this help manual The Up and Down buttons will move your file up or down in the list thus changing the Order in which they are imported Now let s examine the interface F e e e e ara ae At the lower right corner of the file list grid you will see display of how many files you have listed This is useful when there are too many to easily count E File Import Manager This area is where your file information is The columns Files are labeled as follows Order Directory Filename File Dat Order Determines in which order the files are imported 1 C Users S file bt 16 07 2 3 C Users S file bt 1607 2 Directory Where the specified file is stored on you PC 3 CAUses S file3bd 1607 7 Filename The name of the text file you want to import Date Time The date and time of when the file was created File Length The size of the file in bytes One byte equals one character Line Count Number of lines in the file Plate Lines How many lines from this file you want to import for each plate The only value you are allowed to change is the Plate Lines cell To change the value either double click Plate Lines cell with your mouse or press the Enter key when the line is selected After entering a new value press the Enter key again to save your changes 39 Make Circle Converts the selected object or objects to a circle in the size of the selected object If you have multiple objects selected it creates a circl
75. head to the printed symbol VariableText also provides an automatic error correction option that can help make the most efficient use of the error correction capabilities in PDF417 VariableText allows complete control over all features of PDF417 PDF417 Bar Code Dimensions A PDF417 bar code symbol consists of multiple rows of data encoded in units called code words Each symbol can contain from 3 to 90 rows and each row consists of a Start Stop pattern and from 3 to 32 code words 1 to 30 code words for data and 2 for Right and Left Row Indicators The smallest element in a PDF417 symbol is called a module Each code word consists of a unique pattern of 4 bars and 4 spaces each with a width of up to 6 modules within a total width of 17 modules per code word This is where the 417 comes from in the name PDF417 4 bars within 17 modules Because the number of code words in a row and the total number of rows in a symbol are variable quantities the three primary dimensions used to define the size of a PDF417 bar code are the PDF Module Width PDF Module Height and the PDF Aspect Ratio preferences The PDF Module Height and PDF Module Width values define the height and width of the smallest rectangular element in the PDF417 symbol and the PDF Aspect Ratio value specifies the overall height to width ratio of the symbol The best choice for the PDF Module Width preference depends partly on the resolution of your bar code reading equipm
76. hese same basic rules also apply to the Auto Serialize function SpacePlate The SpacePlate screen works with selected objects in their current location or with all objects balanced on the plate with no objects selected If you wish to spread all lines of text evenly on the plate using either Even E or Factored F space break the lines of text apart using the function Break Artistic Text under the Arrange menu Even Space refers to how all ungrouped objects will have the same vertical space between them In addition the top and bottom margins will be the same Factor Space will place more vertical space around taller lines than shorter lines In other wotds the vertical space above and below a line or object is based on factor of its height In addition you may specify the top and bottom margins you wish to use In either mode grouped objects or lines of text that have not been broke apart will maintain their interline spacing The will be positioned on the plate in relationship to the other objects in the layout A picture is worth a thousand words as they say Create a layout of any type using grouped and ungrouped text or objects to see how the different functions in SpacePlate work 116 Appendix Using the Undo feature of Corel Draw Note This pertains to Variable Text Only Beginning with EnegravePro for Corel DRAW X7 we have added the ability to undo a Variable Text job The feature is disabled by default upon installation Before e
77. ial number of 00232 To complete this job you would perform the following steps 1 Start Auto Serialize from CorelDRAW where you have a job laid out like the one below arting EST 1839 Q 1 2 U S PATENT NO 5 461 958 2 When Auto Serialize starts enter 22 for the number of plates and 2 for the number of lines 3 For Line 1 Field 1 choose the Fixed Tab for the field type and enter MN32D for the Fixed String 4 Line 2 Field 1 choose the Numeric Tab for the field type enter 4500 for the starting number click the Start Count Button and enter a 6 for the pad amount 207 lt 5 Now click the File Menu and then click the Create Output File menu item to continue with your job 6 A dialog prompts you as to whether or not you want to continue with CorelDRAW or create another file E Create Another Do you want to add to this import file or continue with importing your file into CorelDRAW Continueto Corel Cancel 7 Click the Create another File button 8 When the Job Save dialog comes up enter a new filename to save the text file to For this example enter chain txt then click the Save button 7 Save Ak jm Calian e byenes e EnpevePre feral p Saved bips ay rd Serigi P Organs Hir loidei nT 7 ce data MGi Fil pim chuni awe ad pype Tek Fila t Made Fcicers ove Cinsa 9 You are then asked if you want to save your current job se
78. ically calculate and append the proper check character to all Code 39 symbols If you set the Symbology to Code39_HIBC then the control will automatically add the check digit no matter what value the Code39 Check Digit preference is set to 78 Full ASCII Code 39 The FULL ASCII version of Code 39 is a modification of the NORMAL standard version that can encode the complete 128 ASCII character set including asterisks The Full ASCII version is implemented by using the four characters as shift characters to change the meanings of the rest of the characters in the Normal Code 39 character set Because the Full ASCII version uses shift characters in combination with other standard characters to represent data not in the Normal Code 39 character set each non standard character requires twice the width of a standard character in a printed symbol The table below shows the character combinations used to produce the Full ASCII version of Code 39 TeV CS awo o y OS o DREE E R E ER E O E EE E E F E T SA B _ l BBB dB ex se a le fc c Je ece o o EOT SDS JD Jd J _ O ENQ SEO _ JE CE Ee ET ACK SFC UC BEL SG GS Jg J6 gt O Eo U i a a t e e a a PK KK a O T E E E E CR SMO MM mM so JSN Je NNN sio so de OO JO CME 0 e o ISS SO O OSO O E a S a a a a a a eee E DC2 _ SR_ _ 2 RR RR DC3 ss J3 SSS ee Ne gt T E A a E a E E E Nak su J5 J5 U JU ___ u O
79. igits when reading Interleaved 2 of 5 symbols The number of digits are usually pre defined for a particular application and all readers used in the application are programmed to only accept ITF bar codes of the chosen length Shorter data can be left padded with zeros to fit the proper length VariableText will only accept numeric digits for Interleaved 2 of 5 bar codes If an odd number of digits is entered the control will Left Pad one zero to the number entered Interleaved 2 of 5 optionally allows for a weighted modulo 10 check character for special situations where data security is important To enable the Interleaved 2 of 5 check character set the I2o0f5 Check Digit preference to True and VariableText will automatically calculate and append the proper check character to all Interleaved 2 of 5 symbols 1234567890 Code 128 is a variable length high density alphanumeric symbology Code 128 has 106 different bar and space patterns and each pattern can have one of three different meanings depending on which of three different character sets is employed Special start characters tell the reader which of the character sets is initially being used and three special shift codes permit changing character sets inside a symbol One character set encodes all upper case characters and ASCII control characters another encodes all upper and lower case characters and the third set encodes numeric digit pairs 00 through 99 This third character set effective
80. il Before registering you should have already purchased the software via our online store With your receipt you would have received a License ID and password You will need both the ID and the password to properly register and activate your software To start the registration or purchase EngravePro click the Start Menu then right click Register EngravePro from the EngravePro menu Select Run as Administrator You will see a dialog box similar to the one below B EngravePro License Management _ License Status Name Status x License 9200 License not found activation is required Actions wantto Using Activate a license or renewal This computer s Intemet connection Another computer s Intemet connection License Details License ID Password Installation ID Installation Name Enter the License ID and Password that was emailed to you and then click the Next button In a few moments you will see a dialog like below indicating a successful registration 16 Request Completed Your request has been processed successfully Click Finish to continue Activating EngravePro Manually Your computer may not have internet access thus requiring you to activate manually To start the registration or purchase EngravePro click the Start Menu then right click Register EngravePro from the EngravePro menu Select Run as Administrator You
81. ile to save your template to Click Save once you have made your selection When you click the create job button you will be presented with a File Save dialog box similar to the one shown below FF Save AI j i eer D i hiy Documents EngravePre Serial Saved Seripts i ip i Search Spiced Sogi p Opgamen Mire folder 7 z Reed Pion Jerne Dude miad Tee Wj Fhoto Stream 2 ca libana Deturnent al Mudie ie Piibu H vhi lie Computer E asic Fil piris Save det pype Ted File fe tide Potae Cone Hither type in a new filename or choose an existing file name to save to If you plan on Chaining multiple jobs together and this is the first link in your chain then enter a new filename If this is a subsequent job you want to add to an existing chain then choose that file Once you have entered your selection click the Save button See the section titled Chaining for a full explanation of what chaining is and how to utilize it If you chose a file that already existed you will get the following dialog box e ES r paje EP File Already Exists The fie you spered already iaa Dio you wani in ovanie the file or append thi joh io the snd of the existing fin Pervimw of miting fin TEST A a TES E 3 TESTE 4 TESI D TESTE 6 TESI F 7 TESTG karimi he miomani Last Acers D26213 15895 AM Over Wite Chan Cancel The dialog wi
82. ill appear If you intend to do each plate one at a time then answer the message No If you are doing a grid of plates then answer Yes Answering Yes will display the Plate Size dialog box Variable Text 15 0 4 0 File Help Single Plate Size File Stats l Height 1 500 Width 3 000 Number of Lines 9 CAUsers Scott Documents My Dropbox EngraveFro NET Testing Files Test Variable Text 3 Oat Pate Ontos Height 24 000 Width 24 000 Columns Set the size for the materal you will be using for the matri The Single Plate Size values cannot be changed here Those values were set in Corel Draw when you set the page size of your layout Plate Options allows you to group each individual plate convert all text to curves and specify which direction to create your plates in Multiple Plate Size is the size of your material not your single plate size This value you can change and should be larger than your Single Plate Size values You may also specify the number of Rows and Columns you want to create For example you may always want to set your Multiple Plate Size to the size of your laser table and use the Rows and Columns to specify how many plates you want vertically and horizontally Plate Offsets Horizontal Spacing The amount of distance you want added between your plates in the X Left to Right direction This value is only used when you choose Borders ot None The value has no effect for Grid Cut Out
83. include a composite message in a RSS 14 bar code append the composite message to the main numeric message in the Message property with a comma between the two strings For example if you set the Message property to 1234567890123 Testing 123 the RSS 14 bar code that is produced will have 1234567890123 encoded in the main symbol and Testing 123 encoded in the composite portion of the symbol RSS bar codes do not require a quiet zone at either end of the bar code symbol however if you enable the Quiet Zone property a quiet zone ten times the Narrow Bar Width value will be included at both ends of the symbol RSS 14 Stacked RSS 14 Stacked is a variation of the standard RSS 14 symbology that allows the bar code to be printed in two rows The purpose of RSS 14 Stacked is to reduce the overall length of the RSS 14 linear bar code so it can fit better on certain packaging configurations This form of RSS 14 can be printed very small and is not generally intended for Omni directional scanning It is used to encode 14 digits of numerical data and just like the Standard RSS 14 symbology it can also contain a composite component The top row of the linear portion of a RSS 14 Stacked bar code symbol is always 5 times the narrow bar width in height and the bottom row is always 7 times the narrow bar width in height and the two rows are separated by a special separator pattern that is 1 times the narrow bar width in height With
84. l ST Rune Russe ues beeen OA E E A erp til eee S Mery att E a peed I T a l 0a uv hs D E cid a P T is E Beer er e rh z m a A ma 2 D D S O g O A Je a O D 5 E 5 ue oe g Paj a ie 2 ae ARE a b 2 45 Move Rulers to Home Move Rulers to Home Automatically reset your rulers to the zero in the upper left corner of the page Before L a i et Ma mn a a E a A BSE POS ue La F EDH 4 ral N Dife 100 0 001 9 fiecumers colar proli A d BG ta 1 COMTE LS Tb Gaasi SA Wot rayta Da Gan i b After SJ CorelDRAW X5 C Users Scott Documents My Dropbox EngravePro N View Layout Arrange Effects Bitmaps ext toad b o oe O B 6 3 814 zje Custom B 10 a OG Bia Pall caper eo LAP ut 3 64 es ea He P Ra i i ees a Fic vee p amp amp A fi as S E gt ka On ina 3 Mie Sa eee 46 Print Job Printlob Click the OK button to print Processing 5 of 10 Print Job will take a Corel Layout containing multiple pages and print each page to the laser one page at a time One of the caveats is that this will only work with the default printer So if the printer you want to output to is not the default printer you must set it to be the default prior to using PrintJob Once you have the desired printer set as your default select PrintJob from the EngravePro Menu
85. l start stop character VariableText will automatically add the start and stop characters as well as the check digits to each Code 93 bar code therefore you should not attempt to include them as part of your bar code message aiti23456 7890a CodaBar is a variable length symbology that allows encoding of the following 20 characters 0123456789 ABCD CodaBar is commonly used in libraries blood banks and the air parcel business CodaBar uses the characters A B C and D only as start and stop characters Thus the first and last digits of a CodaBar message must be A B C or D and the body of the message should not contain these characters VariableText will allow any length of CodaBar message as long as it contains valid characters and starts and ends with a valid start stop character If you use lower case letters for A BC or D VariableText will convert them to upper case CODE 93 CODABAR INTERLEAVED 2 OF 5 ITF 83 1234567890 Interleaved 2 of 5 is a high density variable length numeric only symbology that encodes digit pairs in an interleaved manner The odd position digits are encoded in the bars and the even position digits are encoded in the spaces Because of this Interleaved 2 of 5 bar codes must consist of an even number of digits Also because partial scans of I 2 of 5 bar codes have a slight chance of being decoded as a valid but shorter bar code readers are usually configured to read a fixed even number of d
86. l symbol area to be used for error correction If you set the PDF Security Level property to 9 you can then pass a percentage value in the PDF Pct Overhead property from 0 to 99 This automatic PDF Security Level mode is the best way to specify a security level because it guarantees that you will not waste symbol real estate with more error correction overhead than is necessary for small messages It also insures that enough error correction will be generated for larger messages A small message only needs a small amount of error correction capacity while a larger message needs mote If you set the value for the PDF Pct Overhead property to zero the default percentage of 10 overhead will be used Aztec Code Aztec Code is a high density 2 dimensional matrix style symbology that can encode up to 3750 characters from the entire 256 byte ASCII character set The symbol is built on a square grid with a bulls eye pattern at its center Data is encoded in a series of layers that circle around the bulls eye pattern Each additional layer completely surrounds the previous layer thus causing the symbol to grow in size as more data is encoded Aztec s primary features include a wide range of sizes allowing 89 both small and large messages to be encoded orientation independent scanning and a user selectable error checking and correction mechanism The smallest element in an Aztec symbol is called a module i e a square dot The
87. le click this button A File Open dialog box will open similar to the one shown below F i p THA i ipm Cancel U Note If you want to work with a Group List File see the instructions at the end of this section When opening text files you have a few choices as to the kind of text file you open Standard Text File Contains a line by line format for importing Each line is separated from the next by a carriage return Variable text associates each line with one placeholder in your job layout Delimited Text File Text file contains lines of text with each line containing multiple fields separated by a specified character Usually the character is a comma or a semi colon For example Jansen amp Son s Insulation 745 Commerce Drive Venice FL 34292 The above line of text contains 5 fields and uses the semi colon to separate them It would be expected that in your job layout you would set up a plate that had 5 placeholders labeled 1 through 5 64 7 Delimited Text Files Type Fixed Width Delimited V First line contains field names V Fields Enclosed in Quotes Select your Delimiter D Tab Semicolon Comma Space Other COMPANY FULL_NAME TITLE City of Holly Hill BARBARA ABBATE Employee City of Holly Hill STEPHEN ALDRICH Employee City of Holly Hill LISA AMARA Employee City of Holly Hill DONNA AMAYA Employee City of Holly Hill TOD ANDERSON Employee City of Ho
88. ll display the contents of the file you selected and display the date and time the file was last accessed This should help you determine if this is the file you really want to overwrite 26 ot Chain to Choosing Overwrite will obviously overwrite the file you already selected thereby erasing the contents of that file with the new job If you select Chain it will add the current job onto the end of the job you previously selected Once you have made your choice you will have the option of returning to Auto Serialize to create another job of continuing on with CorelDRAW l Create Another Do you want to add to this import file or continue with importing your file into CorelDRAW Create Another File Continueto Corel Cancel Chaining Chaining is used to connect multiple Auto Serialize jobs together For example let s say you have 22 Guitars of one model and 26 Guitars of another model you want to serialize You have a layout in CorelDRAW and you want to laser all 48 of the Guitars in one pass Normally you would have to laser the first 22 then move your material to the upper left corner of your laser and then laser the remaining 26 With Chaining you can create one text file you need for both of the layouts and laser both layouts together For our example the first 22 Guitars have a Model Number of MN32D and the serial number will start with 004500 The second set of Guitars has a model number of DF75L and a starting ser
89. lly Hill MATTHEW ARMSTRONG Employee City of Holly Hill KRISTOPHER AZEVEDO Employee City of Holly Hill MARK BARKER Employee City of Holly Hill RICHARD BEAUREGARD Employee City of Holly Hill THOMAS BENTLEY Employee City of Holly Hill KENNETH BINGHAM Employee City of Holly Hill WILLIAM BLISSETT Employee City of Holly Hill RONALD BONIARSKI Employee W If the text file you are working with has field names set check the box marked First Line contains Field Names Subsequently Variable Text will not import the first line of the text file If you are using different character delimiters than what is already listed you can click the Other option thereby allowing you to enter the character of your choice Fixed Width Text File Text file contains lines of text with each line containing fields of a fixed known width For example Jansen amp Son s Insulation 745 Commerce Drive Venice FL 34292 The above line of text contains 5 fields and each field is a set number of characters long The first field is 26 characters long the second field is 19 characters long and so on 65 Type Fixed Width Delimited First line contains field names Fixed width specifications FULL_NAME TITLE Holly Hill BARBA Holly Hill STEPH Holly Hill LISA Holly Hill DONNA Holly Hill TOD A Holly Hill MATTH Holly Hill KRIST Holly Hill MARK Holly Hill RICHA Holly Hill THOMA Holly Hill KENNE Holly
90. lowed by a three 3 digit number between 1 and 255 representing the symbol sequence as well as a file identifier of stx numeric digits The file identifier is used to uniquely identify a sequence so that only logically linked sequences are processed as part of the same sequence The symbol sequence identifier is a number between 1 and 255 that indicates the position of the symbol within a sequence of up to 16 symbols The sequence identifier actually contains two four bit values representing the sequence number and the total number of symbols in the sequence i e m of n where m is the sequence number and n is the total number of symbols The upper four bits of this value represent the position of the particular symbol as the binary value of m 1 and the lower order four bits identify the total number of symbols to be concatenated as the binary value of 17 n For example symbol 3 in a sequence of 7 symbols with file ID 001015 is represented by 2042001015 The number 042 is derived as follows 3 1 2 which equals 0010 when represented as a 4 bit binary number 17 7 10 which equals 1010 when represented as a 4 bit binary number After concatenating the two 4 bit binary values we end up with 00101010 which equals 42 in decimal 3 Indicates that a message is to be used for reader programming purposes and is followed by normal data This feature is only useful if you know the specific programming commands for your bar code reader 5 and 6 indicates tha
91. ly doubles the code density when printing numeric data Code 128 also employs a check digit for data security In addition to ASCII characters Code 128 also allows encoding of four special function codes FNC1 FNC4 The meaning of function code FNC1 and FNC4 were originally left open for application specific purposes Recently an agreement was made by the Automatic Identification Manufacturers Assoc AIM and the European Article Numbering Assoc EAN to reserve FNC1 for use in EAN applications FNC4 remains available for use in closed system applications FNC2 is used to instruct a bar code reader to concatenate the message in a bar code symbol with the message in the next symbol FNC3 is used to instruct a bar code reader to CODE 128 84 perform a reset When FNC3 is encoded anywhere in a symbol any data also contained in the symbol is discarded The four function codes can be included in a message by using the ASCII characters ASCII 128 for FNC1 ASCII 129 for FNC2 ASCII 130 for FNC3 and ASCII 131 for FNC4 Note VariableText will automatically select the proper character sets and insert the necessary start character and shift codes so that the resulting bar code will be as short as possible The check digit will also be calculated automatically by VariableText 1234567890 The EAN UCC 128 symbology is a variation of the original Code 128 symbology designed primarily for use in product identification applications The EAN UCC 1
92. module size and the amount of error correction are the only dimensions that can be specified for an Aztec symbol and both are user selectable It is recommended that the module size should range between 15 to 30 mils in order to be readable by most of the scanners that are currently available The module size is specified using the Matrix Module Size property The overall size of an Aztec symbol is dependent on the Matrix Module Size setting the total amount of encoded data and also on the level of error correction capacity chosen by the user The smallest Aztec symbol is 15 modules square and can encode up to 14 digits with 40 error correction The largest symbol is 151 modules square and can encode 3000 characters or 3750 numeric digits with 25 error correction There are four types of Aztec symbols Normal Compact Full Range and Menu symbols You specify the type of Aztec symbol to generate using the Aztec Symbol Type property Normal Aztec symbols can grow or shrink in size depending on the amount of data that you are encoding With Normal Aztec symbols you also specify the amount of error correction overhead to include by specifying the percentage of the total symbol area to use for error correction The Aztec Error Correction property is used for this purpose Compact symbols have a smaller bulls eye pattern and are limited in their overall size to having up to four layers of data surrounding the bulls eye pattern Full Rang
93. n a square grid arranged with a finder pattern around the perimeter of the bar code symbol 90 There are two types of Data Matrix symbols each using a different error checking and correction scheme ECC The different types of Data Matrix symbols are identified using the terminology ECC followed by a number representing the type of error correction that is used by the encoding software ECC 000 to ECC 140 are the original type of Data Matrix symbols and are now considered obsolete The newest version of Data Matrtx is called ECC 200 and is recommended for all new Data Matrix applications The ECC 200 version of Data Matrix uses a much more efficient algorithm for encoding data in a symbol as well as an advanced error checking and correction scheme VariableText fully supports all variations of the Data Matrix symbology however the author of the original symbology specification CI Matrix Co highly recommends that ECC 000 ECC 140 be used only where absolutely necessary to remain compatible with older systems VariableText allows you to select the ECC value using the Data Matrix Error Correction property Each of the different ECC options are outlined below ECC 000 ECC 140 Data Matrix symbols designated by the terms ECC 000 to ECC 140 are the original type of Data Matrix symbol that uses a convolutional error correction scheme There are actually five levels of error correction available for this type of Data Matrix symbol with each hi
94. nabling this feature there are a few considerations to be made Every time Variable Text imports text and creates a plate it causes a copy and paste operation from within CorelDRAW There are three to be exact Each one takes up memory and requires at least an Undo level of 3 So for example if you routinely create a 100 plate job you will have to have an undo level of 300 For testing purposes I have set my undo level to 1500 which is enough to do pretty much any job I want to do The other issue is memory Often users report sluggish performance or an outright crash after using EneravePro with a large amount of plates or doing multiple jobs Enabling the Undo feature of EneravePro will exasperate the issue With that said if you want to enable the undo feature simply go to preference from Variable Text and change it to True To change your undo levels in CorelDraw go to the Tools Menu Options Work Space and then General 117
95. nates given in your current units of the circle where you want it drawn Example C 0 0 1 Draws a Circle centered at 0 0 with a radius of 1 Example C 1 Draws the same circle This is the same as the first example only this time omitting the zeros If a blank value is left anywhere in the command it is replaced with a zero To Draw a Vertical Guideline GV x X Center Where GV or gh is the vertical guideline command x is the coordinates given in your current units of the guideline where you want it drawn 31 Example GV 1 Draws a vertical guideline 1 unit from the left of your origin Example GV 1 Draws a vertical guideline 1 unit from the right of your origin To Draw a Horizontal Guideline GH y Y Center Where GH or gh is the Horizontal guideline command x is the coordinates given in your current units of the guideline where you want it drawn Example GH 1 Draws a Horizontal guideline 1 unit up from your origin Example GH 1 Draws a Horizontal guideline 1 unit down from your origin 32 Copy Plate Using the PageDown button on your keyboard you can automatically create a copy of the selected object with one key stroke Start with your first plate in the upper right corner of your page like below Make sure it is selected Z ia a i of oe 3 a ba k J LS Be Now press the PageDown key on your keyboard EngravePro will make as many copies as times you press the key
96. ne they will automatically be logged in on the computer Authentication is performed by the smartphone which contacts the server A QR code login method called Sesame was trialled by Google in January 2012 18 Storage The amount of data that can be stored in the QR code symbol depends on the datatype mode or input character set version 1 40 indicating the overall dimensions of the symbol and error correction level The maximum storage capacities occur for 40 L symbols version 40 error correction level L 2 Maximum character storage capacity 40 L character refers to individual values of the input mode datatype Input mode max characters bits char possible characters default encoding Numeric only 7 089 33 0143 45 078 9 Alphanumeric 4 296 52 0 9 A Z upper case only space Binary byte 2 953 8 ISO 8859 1 Kanji kana 1 817 13 Shift JIS X 0208 Here are some sample QR code symbols 100 Ir m m Version 1 21x21 Content Ver1 m wo EF m n Version 2 25x25 Content Version 2 Ha Version 3 29x29 Content Version 3 QR code DR SSer e ee ae een eee re eke at eal ote eee in f 1 a Bee i Le a all ine ab F Ih f l Aea ome k Fi tae es A SS ef os os pi TAE fa Tak ee Version 10 57x57 Content Version 10 QR code up to 174 char at H level with 57x57 modules and plen
97. o Using Activate a license or renewal This computer s Intemet connection C Refresh my license C Another computer s Intemet connection Deactivate this workstation License Details 61450725 Installation ID RUSFJ QSH8C HNYFB VEQ4C J4UDM Z Upon a successful deactivation you will receive a confirmation message 19 Deactivating EngravePro Manually Select Deactivate EngravePro from the Start Menu EngravePro menu A dialog box will appear a EngravePro License Management Status OK Expires Friday April 25 2014 24 days Actions want to Using Activate a license or renewal This computer s Intemet connection Refresh my license Another computer s Intemet connection Deactivate this workstation License Details License ID 61450725 Installation ID RUSFJ Q9SH8C HNYFB VEQ4C J4UDM Z Installation Name Optional guu P Begin Manual Request Save a request file recommended Select the location to save your request file below You may then take this file to another computer and double click the file to get a response which you may then bring back to this computer to finish the process C Users gutauckis CITYOFHOLLYHILL Desktop Request htmi Copy request Copy the request text below and paste it into the manual request page or into a support email lt Activatelnstallation LicenseFile gt lt EncryptionKey D gt 4cff 7bc9 0
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99. oding options including data compaction options error checking and correction options and variable size and aspect ratio symbols The low level structure of a PDF417 symbol consists of an array of code words small bar and space patterns that are grouped together and stacked on top of each other to produce the complete printed symbol An individual code word consists of a bar and space pattern 17 modules wide The user may specify the module width the module height and the overall aspect ratio overall height to width ratio for the complete symbol A complete PDF417 symbol consists of at least 3 rows of up to 30 code words and may contain up to 90 code word rows per symbol with a maximum of 928 code words per symbol The code words in a PDF417 symbol are generated using one of three data compaction modes currently defined in the symbology specifications This allows more than one character to be encoded into a single data code word Because different data compaction algorithms may be used it is possible for different printed symbols to be created from the same input data VariableText will automatically switch between the different data compaction modes to produce the smallest possible bar code symbol for a given bar code message 86 The PDF417 symbology also allows for varying degrees of data security or error correction and detection Nine different error correction levels are available with each higher level adding additional over
100. of Data Matrix supports the ability to produce rectangular bar codes VariableText uses the Data Matrix Format ID property to indicate the overall shape of all ECC200 bar codes Six options are available that force the bar code symbol to be both fixed in size and rectangular in shape The overall size of the rectangular symbols is dependent on the size of the module that you have selected for the Matrix Module Size property The table below shows the 6 different rectangular symbol options available along with size in modules and the amount of data that may be encoded for each option Shape of bar code and amount of data that may be encoded Square symbols grow in size depending on amount of data being encoded Rectangular 8 modules tall by 18 modules wide may contain up to 10 bytes 8 amp 8 Rectangular 8 modules tall by 32 modules wide may contain up to 20 bytes Rectangular 12 modules tall by 26 modules wide may contain up to 32 bytes Rectangular 12 modules tall by 36 modules wide may contain up to 44 bytes Rectangular 16 modules tall by 36 modules wide may contain up to 64 bytes Rectangular 16 modules tall by 48 modules wide may contain up to 98 bytes MaxiCode PS a a oh eT AR ty L Ti oe a pa ay AA ck ue TT Rate A ieee MaxiCode is a fixed size matrix style symbology made up of rows of hexagonal modules arranged around a bulls eye finder pattern A MaxiCode symbol has 884 hexagonal modules arranged in
101. oin Nodes Joins two or nodes together The nodes must be from the same object and be an end node In the case of having two or mote lines select both lines then combine them prior to joining nodes This feature is very useful especially with imported CAD drawing where there are many overlapping points EP Join Nodes 0 002 Enter the Distance between two in order for them to be joined Statistics Number of Nodes Selected 4647 Number of Nodes Removed Before After 77 Barcodes Beginning with version 5 7 EngravePro now creates barcodes with its VariableText module While this User Document attempts to explain the various barcodes available to you ultimately it is up to you to understand each bar code and its appropriate use Keep in mind some barcodes expect your text to be numeric in content and if the text is inappropriate for the selected barcode an JERROR will be displayed instead of the bar code Using the barcode is quite simple Lay out your CorelDRAW job as you would normally do except using the bar code token 1 code39 BAR for example will produce a Code 39 barcode representing the text from your input file There are various options for each of the many bar codes VariableText will create To review these options you should click the Options button in VariableText Many settings control different preferences such as comments bar code height etc VariableText uses this setting to
102. op patterns and right left row indicators the maximum number of code word columns allowable in a 2 inch wide symbol can be calculated using the formula 10mils x 7 x PDF Max Cols 69 lt 2000 mils 2 inches If we solve the equation above we obtain the value of 7 for the Maximum number of code word columns PDF Max Cols Thus if we set the Maximum Number of Data Columns parameter to 7 VariableText will only produce PDF417 symbols that are less than 2 inches wide You can also cause VariableText to produce a version of PDF417 called Truncated PDF417 that removes the Right Row Indicator code words and the stop pattern on the right hand side of the symbol thus reducing the total size of a PDF417 symbol When creating Truncated PDF417 symbols there are only 35 overhead modules per row instead of the normal 69 overhead modules This option can be selected by setting the PDF Truncated Symbol preference to True Truncated is shown below PDF417 Error Detection and Correction One of PDF417 s primary features is error detection and correction or data security Each PDF417 symbol has 2 code words for error detection Similar to a check digit in standard bar code symbols The error correction capacity may be selected by the user based on the needs of a specific application Error correction compensates for label defects and misdecodes There are essentially 2 types of errors that can occur in a bar code symbol Erasures and Misdecodes Erasure
103. ough it may be easier to draw a box circle etc with a mouse positioning and sizing can be cumbersome Command Line allows you to accurately draw the following objects Box Circle Line Horizontal Guideline Vertical Guideline After typing in the command press the enter key a Command Line b0 0 1 3 Draw a Box B xi top yi left x2 right y2 bottom To Draw a Box B x1 top yl deft x2 rnght y2 bottom Where B or b is the Box command x1 y1 x2 y2 are the coordinates given in your current units of the box where you want it drawn Example B 0 0 10 2 Draws a Box starting at 0 0 and ending at 10 2 Example B 10 2 Draws a Box starting at 0 0 and ending at 10 2 This is the same as the first example only this time omitting the zeros If a blank value is left anywhere in the command it is replaced with a zero To Draw a Line L x1 top yl deft x2 right y2 bottom Where L or I is the Line command x1 y1 x2 y2 are the coordinates given in your current units of the line where you want it drawn Example L 0 0 10 2 Draws a Line starting at 0 0 and ending at 10 2 Example L 10 2 Draws a Line starting at 0 0 and ending at 10 2 This is the same as the first example only this time omitting the zeros If a blank value is left anywhere in the command it is replaced with a zero To Draw a Circle C x X Center y Y Center radius Where C or c is the circle command x y radius are the coordi
104. perating systems QR codes can be used in Google s Android operating system and 10S devices iPhone iPod iPad as well as by using Google Goggles 3rd party barcode scanners and the Nintendo 3DS The browser supports URI redirection which allows QR codes to send metadata to existing applications on the device mbarcode is a QR code reader for the Maemo operating system In Apple s 10S a QR code reader is not natively included but more than fifty paid and free apps are available with both the ability to scan the codes and hard link to an external URL Google Goggles is an example of one of many applications that can scan and hard link URLs for 10S and Android With BlackBerry devices the App World application can natively scan QR codes and load any recognized Web URLs on the device s Web browser Windows Phone 7 5 is able to scan QR codes through the Bing search app URLs URLs aided marketing conversion rates even in the pre smartphone era but during those years faced several limitations ad viewers usually had to type the URL and often did not have a web browser in front of them at the moment they viewed the ad The chances were high that they would forget to visit the site later not bother to type a URL or forget what URL to type Friendly URLs decreased these risks but did not eliminate them Some of these disadvantages to URL conversion rates are fading away now that smartphones are putting web access and voice recognition in constant re
105. ple messages for the different variations of UPC symbols Symbol Generated 123456 UPC E 123456 12345 UPC E with a five digit supplemental PUPCA 123456789012 UPC A 12345678901 12 UPC A with a two digit supplemental EAN 8 EAN 13 and EAN Supplemental Ii ii 1 234567 890128 EAN or European Article Numbering system also called JAN in Japan is a European version of UPC It uses the same size requirements and a similar encoding scheme as UPC codes EAN 8 encodes 8 numeric digits consisting of two country code digits five data digits and one check digit EAN 13 is the European version of UPC A The difference between EAN 13 and UPC A is that EAN 13 encodes a 13th digit into the parity pattern of the left six digits of a UPC A symbol This 13th digit combined with the 12th digit usually represent a country code EAN bar code numbers are assigned to specific products and manufacturers by an organization called ICOF located in Brussels Belgium Tel 011 32 2218 7674 web site http www ean be When specifying EAN 8 or EAN 13 messages you may pass a message with either 7 8 12 or 13 digits If you pass a message with 7 or 8 digits VariableText will generate a EAN 8 symbol If you pass 8 digits the 8th digit will be removed VariableText will assume that you are entering a message complete with check digit If you pass a message with 12 or 13 digits VariableText will generate a EAN 13 symbol If you pass 13 digit
106. pps for scanning QR codes can be found on nearly all smartphone devices H QR codes storing addresses and Uniform Resource Locators URLS may appear in magazines on signs on buses on business cards or on almost any object about which users might need information Users with a camera phone equipped with the correct reader application can scan the image of the QR code to display text contact information connect to a wireless network or open a web page in the telephone s browser This act of linking from physical world objects is termed hardlinking or object hyperlinking QR codes also may be linked to a location to track where a code has been scanned Either the application that scans the QR code retrieves the geo information by using GPS and cell tower triangulation aGPS or the URL encoded in the QR code itself is associated with a location H 98 K084832 Kit a ZBK A x Tianjin Beiling 201176114 12H04 377 060124 Lii 103 00 3 SSSR Pad we EE O ismiga z QR codes have been used and printed on Chinese train tickets since 201044 In June 2011 The Royal Dutch Mint Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt issued the world s first official coin with a QR code to celebrate the centennial of its current building and premises The coin was able to be scanned by a smartphone and link to a special website with contents about the historical event and design of the coin 4 This was the first time a QR code was used on currency Mobile o
107. r licensing requirement we present their licensing agreement pertaining to the QR Code software below The MIT License MIT Copyright c 2011 George Mamaladze Permission is hereby granted free of charge to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files the Software to deal in the Software without restriction including without limitation the rights to use copy modify merge publish distribute sublicense and or sell copies of the Software and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so subject to the following conditions The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT TORT OR OTHERWISE ARISING FROM OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE Introduction offering tools otherwise afforded to Rotary Engravers through custom software applications It is our hope EngravePro meets the needs of Laser Engravers worldwide by providing these valuable tools and by enhancing an already World Class Software Application CorelDRAW
108. ranted QR code patent is US 5726435 and in Japan JP 2938338 The European Patent Office granted patent EPO 0672994 to Denso Wave which was then validated into French British and German patents all of which are still in force as of November 2011 The word QR code itself is a registered trademark of Denso Wave Incorporated 2 In UK the trademark is registered as E921775 the word QR Code with a filing date of 03 09 1998 24 The UK version of the trademark is based on the Kabushiki Kaisha Denso DENSO CORPORATION trademark filed as Trademark 000921775 the word QR Code on 03 09 1998 and registered on 6 12 1999 with the European Union OHIM Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market The U S Trademark for the word QR Code is Trademark 2435991 and was filed on 29 September 1998 with an amended registration date of 13 March 2001 assigned to Denso Corporation 107 Variants Oo i Example of Micro OR Micro QR code is a smaller version of the QR code standard for applications with less ability to handle large scans There are different forms of Micro QR codes as well The highest of these can hold 35 numeric characters 2 Risks Malicious QR codes combined with a permissive reader can put a computer s contents and user s privacy at risk This practice is known as attagging a portmanteau of attack tagging 4 They are easily created and can be affixed over legitimate QR codes On a
109. re export or import Software Restricted Rights EPLLC s commercial software and commercial computer software documentation is provided to United States Government agencies in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and per subparagraph c of the Commercial Computer Software Restricted Rights clause at FAR 52 227 19 June 1987 For DOD agencies the restrictions set forth in the Technical Data Commertcial Items clause at DFARS 252 227 7015 Nov 1995 shall also apply General This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Florida United States of America as if performed wholly within the state and without giving effect to the principles of conflict of law If any portion hereof is found to be void or unenforceable the remaining provisions of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect EPLLC hereby specifically disclaims the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods Except as expressly provided herein this Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the license of the Software and supersedes any conflicting or additional terms contained in the purchase order Acknowledgement With the release of EneravePro X7 you will find that EP now supports QR Codes We would like to acknowledge the fantastic work done by QRCode Net and their developers for providing us with the code to implement QR Codes in our software To respect thei
110. s the 13th digit will be removed Again the control will assume that you are entering a message with a check digit VariableText automatically calculates the check 81 digit for you and appends it to your bar code message text This insures that you always have the correct check digit Like UPC EAN 8 and EAN 13 allow for a supplemental two or five digit number to be appended to the main bar code symbol The supplemental is stmply a small additional bar code that is added onto the right side of a standard EAN symbol To include a supplemental message append it to the main message with a comma separating it from the main message If you enter a supplemental message it must consist of either two or five numeric digits The following table contains sample messages for the different variations of EAN symbols 1234567890128 EAN 13 no supplemental 123456789012 12 EAN 13 with a two digit supplemental BookLand 463 9 781562 764 EAN 13 has been adopted as the standard in the publishing industry for encoding ISBN numbers on books An ISBN or BookLand bar code is simply an EAN 13 symbol consisting of the first 9 digits of an ISBN number preceded by the digits 978 and terminated with a standard EAN check digit The supplemental in an ISBN bar code is usually the retail price of the book preceded by the digit 5 or it can be the number 90000 when no price is specified For example if you want to encode the ISBN number 1 56276 008 4 and
111. s are missing or undecodable 88 code words and misdecodes are errors that cause the reader to interpret a particular code word incorrectly Nine error correction levels numbered 0 through 8 are available in the symbol specification Each higher security level allows for a higher number of erasures and misdecodes to be recovered from Since it requires 2 code words to recover from a misdecode one to detect the error and one to correct for it a given security level can support half the number of misdecodes that it can undecoded or missing code words Since error correction is encoded into additional code words each higher security level adds additional overhead to a printed symbol Higher security levels reduce the maximum number of data characters that can be encoded and also increase the size of a printed symbol A PDF417 symbol can contain a maximum of 928 total code words for data and error correction combined The relationship between security level error correction capacity and the number of additional code words or overhead required for a given security level is as follows Error Correction Level Maximum Limit of Allowable Symbol Overhead Number of Erasures 2 x Misdecodes Additional Code words ee 2 I A 8 The PDF Security Level property allows you to select a specific PDF417 error correction level from 0 to 8 You can also have the VariableText automatically select a security level based on a percentage of tota
112. s the bottom of the dialog box you will notice a preview area As you make changes to your line the status field is updated to give you an accurate representation of what your line of text will look like If you decide you do not want to run the job click the File Menu and then click Exit Auto Serialize will close Once you have completed filling in your values and making changes click the File Menu and then click the Create Output File menu item to continue with your job Save Template Do you want to save your current job settings to a file enabling you to load the settings at a future date Se Ge Een When you click the Create Job button a message will appear like the one shown to the above If you intend on running the same job again or would just like to save it click the Yes button A dialog box will appear asking you where to save the file and what to name it The next time you run Auto Serialize you can click the Open Script button to load your job 25 If you choose to save this job as a template then you will see the following dialog box Fr Save Ag om D i My Documents EvgravePre Serial Saved Seripts Orgerehe Pirar fodcker a Rete Pac ea Wa Fhote Stream 2 cal Libraries Dotu al Mudie ie Pichu H Videos i Computer B ofits Fil piri zi Bave bi pype Tarpian Lary Made fokis Enter the name of an existing file or the name of a new f
113. se but the case of the string displayed matches the string as defined by your system settings The default format is AM PM AMPM PIC is used to specify that an image file is to be imported It expects the line of text read from your file to be fully qualified path and filename to a valid image file Example 1PIC See Importing Graphics for more information BAR is used to specify barcodes to be generated The token is formatted as such 1 bar type BAR Bar type can be any of the following codes used to specify which bar code you want produced Substitute the barcode name for bar type to have VariableText generate a barcode for you Bar Code Name Sample Bar Code code39 code39_full_asctt ELLIE 12345 678 9 0 code39_hibc 60 codabar a41234567890a code93 codel128 1234567890 1234567890 interleaved_2o0f5 1234567890 1 23456 78901 2 12345 ean_jan_8 ean_jan_13 1 23 Hy 4567 89042 55999 bookland Ml 9 T81562 FEAAGS 12 34656607890 i a T E 7 61 maxicode rss14 rss14stacked rss14stackedomni a 12345678901231 rsslimited the last token is the default one used to import lines of text from your input file Tokens are set as 01 2 3 etc and correspond to each line of text in your file Before you start to use the Variable Text feature you must first setup a plate in CorelDRAW If you look in your Start Menu and click on EngravePro you will see 3 s
114. specify less than 13 digits for the linear portion of a RSS bar code the number will automatically be left padded with an appropriate number of zeros so that the total number of digits not counting the check digit is 13 The principle use of the RSS symbology is to identify items that cannot be marked with current linear symbols because of size restrictions The Composite symbols provide additional supply chain data while allowing for the co existence of symbologies already being used For more information on the RSS14 symbology visit http www uc council org There are currently several variations of the RSS symbology including RSS 14 RSS 14 Truncated RSS 14 Stacked RSS 14 Stacked Omnidirectional RSS Limited and RSS Expanded RSS 14 and RSS 14 Truncated Symbols For standard RSS 14 bar code symbols the recommended Narrow Bar Width is 13 mils and the recommended Bar Height is 33 times the Narrow Bar Width 1 e 43 inches for a standard symbol The RSS 14 Truncated symbology is identical to the standard RSS 14 symbology except that the height of the bats is reduced to 14 times the Narrow Bar Width i e 18 inches for a standard RSS 14 Truncated symbol Although VariableText does not have a specific RSS 14 Truncated Symbology option you can produce RSS 14 Truncated bar codes by selecting RSS 14 for the Symbology property and then setting the Bar Height property to 14 times the value that you choose for the Narrow Bar Width property To
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116. t the data will contain an abbreviated format header and trailer followed by normal data The 5 or 6 must appear as the first two characters in a message and must not be used in conjunction with structured append Data Matrix provides a means of abbreviating an industry specific header and trailer in one symbol character This feature exists to reduce the number of characters needed to encode data using certain structured formats If a 5 is used as the first two characters of a message the header gt ASCII 30 05 ASCII 29 will be transmitted by the reader before the data in the message and the trailer ASCII 30 ASCII 4 will be transmitted following the data Likewise if a 6 is used as the first two characters of a message the header gt ASCII 30 06 ASCII 29 will be transmitted by the reader before the data in the message and the trailer ASCII 30 ASCII 4 will be transmitted following the data TNNNNNN is used to indicate Extended Channel NNNNNN where NNNNNN is 6 digit EC value 000000 999999 e g Extended Channel 9 is represented by 7000009 dNNN creates ASCII decimal value NNN for a codeword must be 3 digits Please refer to the official Data Matrix symbology specification for details on the meanings of all codewotd values for ECC 200 Contact AIM International at Tel 703 391 7621 or email adc aimi org 93 Rectangular Data Matrix Symbols The ECC 200 version
117. ternational VariableText supports all features of the ECC 200 version of Data Matrix Because ECC 200 supports the entire 8 bit ASCII character set and therefore cannot use ASCII character values to represent special features like FNC1 the control provides two methods for interpreting the input data message The control provides a Data Matrix Tilde Codes property that determines how the input data message is interpreted If the Data Matrix Tilde Codes property is set to False then the Message property is assumed to not contain any special function codes like FNC1 or Extended Channel Interpretation codes For most normal applications this option would normally be used If the Data Matrix Tilde Codes property is set to True then the tilde character can be used in the input message as an indicator that the character s following the tilde are to be interpreted with a special meaning as outlined below To encode a tilde use the string i e two tilde characters If no tilde characters or Nulls ASCII 0 are present in the input message then setting the Data Matrix Tilde Codes property to True has no effect on the resulting bar code symbol Tilde Control Codes X a tilde character followed by any upper case alpha character is used as a shift character for inserting control codes characters with ASCII values 0 to 26 into a bar code message For example NUL A ASCII 1 G BEL ASCII 7 M ASCII 13 carriage return If
118. the price of the book is 29 95 then you could use 978156276008 as the main bar code message and 52995 for the supplemental with the Symbology property set to bbEAN_JAN_13 and VariableText would generate the correct BookLand bar code If you set the bar code type to BookLand then VariableText only requires you to use the 10 digit ISBN number with or without dashes and optionally a price for the supplemental separated from the ISBN number with a comma This feature saves you the trouble of having to remove the 10th digit from the ISBN number insert the preceding 978 and further process the price supplemental The following table contains sample messages for the different variations of BookLand symbols The following samples apply only when the bar code type is set to BookLand 82 97815602763 with supplemental 52995 1 56276 008 4 395 97815602763 with supplemental 50395 1234567890 90000 9781234567897 with supplemental 90000 1234567890 12 9781234567897 with 2 digit supplemental 12 1234567890 CODE 93 is a variable length symbology that can encode the complete 128 ASCII character set Code 93 was developed as an enhancement to the CODE 39 symbology by providing a slightly higher character density than CODE 39 CODE 93 also incorporates two check digits as an added measure of security Although CODE 93 is considered more robust than CODE 39 it has never achieved the same popularity as Code 39 CODE 93 bar codes ate framed by a specia
119. ttings You may choose Yes No or Cancel For this example choose No 10 Once again you are prompted for the number of plates and lines Enter 26 for the number of plates A 2 should already appear in the number of lines box 11 Again for Line 1 Field 1 choose the Fixed Tab for the field type and enter the new model number of the guitar In this case the new model number is DF75L 12 Line 2 Field 1 choose the Numeric Tab for the field type enter 232 for the starting number click the Start Count button twice then enter a 5 for the pad amount 13 Now click the File Menu and then click the Create Output File menu item to continue with your job 14 A dialog prompts you as to whether or not you want to continue with CorelDRAW or create another file 28 ler Create Another Do you want to add to this import file or continue with importing your file into CorelDRAW Gea Maher Fic 15 Click the Continue to Corel button 16 You are then asked if you want to save your current job settings You may choose Yes No or Cancel For this example choose No 17 When you do Variable Text will start where you can set your layout parameters such as plate size border and offsets Continue with Variable Text When complete you will have a CorelDRAW layout with multiple jobs combined in it Below are a couple of the plates created with the above instructions Aring Arino EST 1833 Q EST 1833 Q MN32D DF75L 004521 0023
120. ty of error correction to go around Note that there are Version 4 33x33 Content Version 4 QR code up to 50 char additional tracking boxes 102 Version 40 177x177 Content Version 40 QR code can contain up to 1852 chars a total of 1 264 characters of ordinary ASCII text taken from an early version of this Wikipedia article Encryption id if T Japanese visa with a QR code Encrypted QR codes which are not very common have a few implementations An Android app for example manages encryption and decryption of QR codes using the DES algorithm 56 bits The Japanese immigration system uses encrypted QR codes when issuing visa in passports 2 as shown in the figure here Error correction Damaged but still decodable QR code REET WIKIPEDIA okan Example of a QR code with artistic embellishment that will still scan correctly thanks to error correction Codewords are 8 bits long and use the Reed Solomon error correction algorithm with four error correction levels The higher the error correction level the less storage capacity The following table lists the approximate error correction capability at each of the four levels 103 Level L Low 7 of codewords can be restored Level M Medium 15 of codewords can be restored Level Q Quartile 2 25 of codewords can be restored Level H High 30 of codewords can be restored Due to the design of Reed Solomon codes and th
121. ty wish to Than you For yourmany yeors of service 25 Year Anniversary November 23 2001 Joe MeDemernt Mera John Doe Clty of Helly HIII We af the city wish to than you For your many years of service 29 Year Anniversary November 23 2001 Joa McDeament bierny cr Factored Spacing with a 40 percent top and bottom margin with 150 percent interline spacing Factored Spacing with a 20 percent top and bottom margin with 300 percent interline spacing Jonn Doe Ty of Haly Hill We ot the city wish to than you Far your many yeas of senwice 25 Year Anniversary November 24 200 Joe McDement Menor 53 Show Direction Lets you see the entry point and the direction your laser or engraving machine will take when engraving the selected object Select the object you want to show the direction for and click Show Direction from the EngravePro menu engrave ro The red circle indicates the starting point for the engraver and the arrow indicates the direction of the movement 54 Reset Object Reset Objects resets the selected object to its original created condition So for example if we have some text on our page that we modified by adding some kerning and stretching it with the selection tool reset object will remove all of these modifications Before User Editing EngravePro After User Editing EngravePro EngravePro This feature also works with other object types such as rectan
122. u like EngravePro to be installed The software will be installed in the folder listed below To either type in a new path or click Change to browse for an Install EngravePro to C Program Files EngravePro Space required 11 0 MB Space available on selected drive 133 51 GB 10 Next choose the shortcut menu you want to install EneravePro into Unless you have a reason to do so otherwise just accept the default choice shown Click the next button EngraveP1 xa Where would you like the shortcuts to be installed The shortcut icons will be created in the folder indicate db ant to use the default folder you can either type a new name ors de from the list Shortcut Folder Ai Install shortcuts for current user only Make shortcuts available to all users lt Back P Next gt Cancel 14 11 Finally you will be presented with the dialog below when ready click the next button Ee X The installer now has enough information to install Eng The following settings will be used Install folder C Program Files EngravePro Shortcut folder EngravePro Please click Next to proceed with the installation Installation The EngravePro X5 installa tio Thank you for choosing Engra Please click Finish to exit this ins _ o aS How to Register EngravePro You have two options to register EngravePro online or by ema
123. u will engrave one plate at a time or you can import into a grid layout where Variable Text will create the master sheet and at your request draw a grid around the layout or even put borders around each plate Tokens VariableText works by using Tokens or placeholders Currently VariableText allows for 4 types of tokens CDT is a token to be used when you want to automatically insert the current date into your plate Example 1 0 m d yyyy CDT produces 10 28 2007 Fach field is separated by the pipe symbol This symbol is usually located above your backslash key It s the symbol that looks like two little bars on top of each other o1 0 m d yyyy CDT field one is the number is the sequence on your plate So for example you could have 58 1 2 0 m d yyyy CDT The first line is read from the file you selected and the second line the date is put in 1 0 m d yyyy CDT the second field you can set to a zero or one Zero 0 specifies that the date be what it is down to the millisecond VariableText processes that line If you specify a one 1 the date and time is determined at the beginning of the import and is the same for each plate imported 1 0 m d yyyy CDT this field can be any of the formatting codes as specified in the table below The following table identifies characters you can use to create user defined date time formats So _ pr Time separator In some locales other char
124. w to the right of the Choose button shows you what your border looks like To set your border click the Choose button and select your desired border Grid Cut Out will simply create a grid around your plates This grid is optimized for cutter and laser paths to help reduce the amount of travel and time your machine takes to complete the job The Direction Tab lets you specify which direction you want CopyPro to create your plates This is the Preferences dialog You can set the size of your engraving table here by selecting the Common Tab 35 Cut Marks Cut marks are visual guides to help cut out objects from paper To use cut Marks select the object you want to frame with cut marks and then select Cut Marks from the EngravePro menu For example using the settings in this dialog box illustration we get the following results le Cut Marks 15 0 4 0 Distance from Selected Edge 25 Top 25 25 Left Right 250 Bottom E Al the same Length of Cut Marks 4 Horizontal 4 Vertical Distance from Edge Illustrated AE WE MON Left N RATED W 2000080008 Right Bottom r 1091910120400 LY Hif A LOOT Length of Cut Mark is simply the length of the mark itself You can specify both the horizontal and the vertical length 36 Flip Page Mirror your page including all the objects on the page Flip Page is for mirroring an entire page for reverse engraving j
125. xt line and even the next page if necessary e Make Grid Create a grid based upon user input Now you can set the cell size number of rows and columns to create a professional grid Grid is also optimized for vector cutting e Convert to Square Convert selected object s into a square Version 4 1 Convert to line Convert selected nodes into a straight line Useful for cleaning up scanned images Also removes unnecessary nodes Reset Object Resets an object back to its original state after you have made sizing changes Show Direction Shows you graphically the direction your engraver will take when cutting out an object Make Entry Point Let s you change the starting point on an object Used for cutting and plotting Cut Marks Create guidelines on your page for trimming paper printouts Move Rulers to Home Automatically reset your rulers to the zero in the upper left corner of the page Move Objects to Home Move selected or all objects to the upper left corner of yout page Flip Page Horizontally and Vertically Flips the page in either direction Useful for mirroring an entire page for reverse engraving jobs Rotate Page Left and Right Rotates your page to the left or right similar to change from portrait to landscape but moves all your objects on the page as well Size Selected Objects Sizes all selected objects to the last selected object Convert to Circle Converts the
126. you need to insert ASCII control codes into a message take the ASCII value for the control code 1 26 and find the corresponding letter in the alphabet and precede it with a tilde i e The ASCII value for a carriage return character is ASCII 13 and the thirteenth letter of the alphabet is M therefore to insert a carriage return in a bar code message you would use M Note You can also pass control codes directly to the DLL without having to use the before an alpha character For example you could use either an ASCII 13 character or the sequence M to represent a carriage return 1 is used to represent the FNC1 code and is followed by normal data 92 To encode data to conform to specific industry standards as authorized by AIM International a FNC1 character shall appear in the first or second symbol character position or fifth or sixth data position of the first symbol of structured append FNC1 encoded in any other position is used as a field separator and shall be transmitted as a GS control character ASCII value 29 Notes To encode data to conform to specific industry standard it needs to be authorized by AIM International Contact AIM International at Tel 703 391 7621 or email adc aimi org If the FNC1 code is used in the second character position the input data before 1 must be between A and Z or between a and z or 2 digits between 01 and 99 2 is used to represent Structured Append and must be fol

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