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1. You can choose not to install Microsoft Data Access Pack or change its destination folder later during Setup Folder C Program Files Data Access Change Folder Exit Setup To start the installation click the large button Microsoft Data Access Pack Setup 2 xi To start installation click the large button Complete Custom Install Installs the data access drivers you select r Folder C Program Files Data Access Change Folder Exit Setup Card Software User Manual 23 The Microsoft Data Access Pack Maintenance dialog box appears Click the Select All button click Ok Bere alg feces Pech Bieter ger r HE fia Dpi lai ie dm nas pa eed adel clear ee ee od a Oc be merece AL eel bm el pe eee a ap feat he epee ell be ied Tp aia deoa in ha p n hi chic Sindee Al Dm Cerrado hat i paced re mapa cn in a F SOL fee Ce HEI O pepo Poia tor Cumerity Salachar Dd CVD TET ita Sie imga ia L eu Ciim be Sh o Sepia wtb rt aaa peepee bei Fier 0 The Microsoft Data Access Pack installation is complete when the setup dialog box confirms so Microsoft Data Access Pack Setup xi Microsoft Data Access Pack Setup was completed successfully Starting Quitting the Card Software After you have installed the Card Software you can start the application Connect the SmartCard reader to the serial port and enter the SmartCard Dongle delivered with th
2. 30 Card Software User Manual Topical Help To find out about an item on the screen click the Help button on the Upper Toolbar When the pointer changes to a question mark choose the command or click the window item on which you want help The Card Software displays the Help topic for the selected command or window item in the Help window The Main Card Software Window The main Card Software window with its accompanying toolbars and menus closely resembles the windows you work in for other Windows based programs You will be working in the main window and its sub windows as you design and print your cards The following illustration identifies and names each part of the main Card Software window The text explains how each part functions Maas Hai ual Ha birorirs Bad a e taron o es oe Tamaa ALBIR SITURA SME almin A Flas Mi Sorc fae Pal Here Dabas Kraka The Title Bar The title bar displays the name of the Card Software program and the name of the active card file Card Software User Manual 31 The Menu Bar The Menu bar lists the available menus A menu contains a list of commands or actions you can carry out with the Card Software Close Button Using the mouse you can click the Close button to end your Card Software session Minimize Maximize Button Using the mouse you can click the Maximize button to enlarge the active program window so that it fills the entire desktop or you
3. Ctrl F Move to Front Moves the selected object to the Ont or a stack OF Objects Card Software User Manual Ctrl B Move to Back Moves the selected object to the back of a stack of objects Ctrl I Item List Displays a list of all objects that can be edited or deleted Ctrl D Duplicate Makes a copy of a n object placing it slightly overlapping the original Unlike the Copy command Duplicate doesn t place a copy of the object on the Clip board Zoom in Magnifies the size of the card depicted on the screen Zoom out Reduces the size of the card depicted on the screen Ctrl L Guidelines Toggles the display of the guidelines that mark the edges of the printable area of the card Ctrl H Snap to Grid Toggles the Snap to Grid option Ctrl 1 Front side Displays the front side of the active card Ctrl 2 Back side Displays the back side of the active card Ctrl G Show grid Toggles the display of the layout grid Ctrl K Keeps the current drawing tool Ctrl Shift F Fit LOGO to card Expands the selected image to fill the full size of the card Database Window Advanced Feature To enable these shortcuts you must focus to the database view simply clicking into one of the database fields F5 Paste Pastes an image from the clipboard to the database image field F6 Open from File Opens an image file from disk F7 Acquire Acquires an image F8 Freeze Freezes an image Ca
4. the pointer Continue dragging until the rectangle is the desired 4 z 10 11 size Release the mouse button The Barcode Properties dialog box appears Harads Nhpri H me Select a bar code Style from the list Card Software defaults to Code 39 but you can choose from among the 20 styles listed Type the data you want to appear in the barcode Select the barcode Ratio from among the four listed If you want the bar code printed in an orientation other than horizontal 0 Degrees select a Rotation value of 90 180 or 270 degrees The rotation is measured clockwise from horizontal If you want the bar code to print with the best black contrast to a white or light colored background select the Print in Black Panel check box This will print the barcode with the black panel of the ribbon instead of using the three ribbon colors to process black Bar codes require high contrast for applications where verification is required The five remaining check boxes pertain to the characteristics of the printed barcode See Chapter 17 About Bar Codes Click OK The bar code will appear on the card Card Software User Manual Note While some bar codes will accept numbers letters and symbols others will accept only numbers See Chapter 17 About Bar Codes Adding a PDF Symbol To add a PDF Symbol 1 On the drawing toolbar click the PDF Symbol tool the pointer changes to a hand with the PDF icon
5. Card Software User Manual Open a Database Report Open a database report 1 From the Database menu select Reports The Database Report dialog box appears Click the Open button The Open dialog box appears 2 Make your selection and click OK The Database Dialog box appears containing the data of your saved report The Auto Print Function The Auto Print concept is a powerful additional database print function which permits database edition and automatic print on one or in different workstations Information about which cards records were already printed is automatically added to the database the Card Software keeps track of the printing process and only newly edited cards records will be printed Preparing the Card Software for Auto Print Prepare a Database for Auto Print Plan the layout of the database to be used for auto print adding all fields you need to store the information you require Create one extra field field type must be numeric or char which will store the information if cards records were printed or not This field may not be indexed unique Make sure you choose a database format which comes with an ODBC driver permitting bi directional editing like dBase Access etc If you need to use an already existing database add one filed which will contain the print information of the cards records If you define an already existing field to contain these information all data in this field w
6. More has the same effect but with higher intensity High Contrast lets you set a threshold value to kodalith an image Grayscale Converts the image from color to gray Remove Noise Removes graining by averaging areas of the image Crop This command is only available after selecting an image area with the select button from the image tools toolbar Define the area you want to keep by dragging and resizing the selection rectangle Then use the command Crop from the Image menu Resize Select the desired value then click Resize Kodalith Displays the Input Values dialog box Enter the desired value then click OK Exit Menu Exit Closes the Image Tools dialog box saving all settings made Cancel Menu Cancel Closes the Image Tools dialog box not saving any settings made Card Software User Manual 15 Toolbars and Tools This section provides a summary of the Card Software tools The Card Software Tools Tools is the term used to describe commands that are avail able with a single mouse click on a command button The command buttons for all the Card Software tools are ar ranged in various Toolbars Tooltips which explain the func tion of each button are displayed if you move the mouse pointer slowly over the buttons The Standard Toolbar The Standard Toolbar contains command buttons for accessing the commands in the File menu the Edit menu and Help menu BA The tools of the Standar
7. Variable Source None Rraperties V Keep Aspect Protected Rotation 0 Degrees C 90 Degrees C 180 Degrees 270 Degrees gt Preview J Print in Black Panel Ticos Open from File Scan Ee 5 Click Open from File The Import Bitmap dialog box appears 42 Card Software User Manual 6 Choose a file name that has one of the extensions listed in the List Files of Type box for example tiger bmp Click OK The image will appear on the screen with its upper left corner at the position you clicked in step 3 Note The previous steps showed you how to add a photograph or other artwork to your card from a bitmap file You can also add an image that is not in a file by using the Scan button or the VfW Image Source See Chapter 12 Image Acquisition Tip Use the Card Software Clipart Viewer to choose and import an image from your Card Software 4 0 CD ROM See Chapter 6 Clipart Viewer Adding a Bar Code To adda bar code to the card 1 On the drawing toolbar click the BarCode tool the pointer changes to a hand with the BarCode icon 2 Move the pointer to a place on the card where you want to place a corner of the barcode 3 Press and hold the left mouse button and drag in any direction As you drag arectangle forms with one corner fixed where you began to drag The other corner follows Card Software User Manual 43 44
8. open the Card Software Help Contents window To use other features in Help use the Help command You can even get help about how to use the Help system Choose Using Help from the Help menu Search Help Topic The fastest way to get help on a topic is to use the search feature To open the Search dialog box choose Contents from the Help menu then click Search ind rad Typa Bam feed bra there of the peor voce lohan hor 2 iok Ds iden ip pi aed he iol Diala Eimi Cant Cad himaan Cad Taria lafrans mj Online Help Information To see what s in Help choose Contents from the Help menu in the Upper Toolbar Then click Using Card Software Card Software User Manual 29 amp Card Software Help ojx File Edit Bookmark Options Help gL Using Card Software Establishing Password Securit Menu commands Using shortcut keys to work with menu commands Managing Documents Naming Documents Creating a New Document Opening an Existing Document Saving a Document Arranaina Dhiaets an the Nanimant You can display step by step procedures while you re working on a card To do this choose Contents from the Help menu and from the Contents window click How To Scroll the screen to see the content covered in each Help entry and click the entry you want You can move or resize the Help topic window if it covers your card Cand Sollee Mel a ble boo at Amia aloe Gite 1 Ceara a fi
9. For example you choose the Rectangle command from the Draw menu Card Software User Manual Also tool and button names are capitalized For example you use the Text Tool to type text and the Bar Code Tool to define a bar code Mouse Conventions The Card Software makes use of both mouse buttons Unless you ve programmed it differently the left mouse button is the primary mouse button Whenever a procedure tells you to use the secondary mouse button the documentation refers to it as the right mouse button Point means to position the mouse pointer so the tip of the pointer rests on whatever you want to point to on the screen Click means to press and then immediately release the left mouse button without moving the mouse Double click means to press and immediately release the mouse button twice without moving the mouse Drag means to point and then hold down the mouse button as you move the mouse Releasing the mouse button completes the action Right click means to press and then immediately release the right mouse button with out moving the mouse Special Graphical Conventions Note Indicates information that emphasizes or supplements important points of the main text Tip A type of note that helps you apply the techniques and procedures described in the text to your specific needs A tip suggests alternative methods that may not be obvious and helps you understand the Card Software b
10. cccccscesccsseeseceeceseceeceseeeeeeseeeeseseeeeseneees 201 Special P600 Properties ccccscesccsseesecsscesecesceseeeeceseeseeeseeseeeneees 202 Print with Windows Driver cceceseeseeeeceeceeeeeeeeeeceeeseeeceeeeeeeeseeeens 203 Printer Types 53s ies os eh ca ash ee sate cn ence e e eana e ane thes 203 Card Setup nirna line eli eg ego eRe ES 204 Printi Cards enre e a E EE E NE 205 Print Maapere nit ea T RE E A E 207 Printing 105 FUG ives neenon e a anis oes 207 The Batch Print File Manager n 208 Batch Print Ophons issnin n Se ea ea aan A E 210 Print TOOLS vests che sep ahh ehh eM his bese ASL oa as 211 Build in Printer Toolea een 211 22 Appendix B Magnetic Encoding csscccesesecsssseees 212 About Magnetic Stripe oo eee ees eseecnecesececeseeeceseeseceeeeseseeseeeseneeees 212 Encoding a Magnetic Stripe oo ee ceeceeceeeesecneeeseceeeeseceseneeeeeeeeeees 213 Encoding with Specific Printer Properties o on 214 Magnetic Encoder Tod cccecccesesscecesecesceseeeseesseesceseeessesseeneense 215 Encoding with a Windows Printer Driver nosene 217 23 Appendix C Card Software Basic Features 219 Basic Features sasss sess r tag nce a E tualewstrntadeess eevee 219 PHONIC e E eS ATTN E E 220 Professional asenenc epe eeen ee neei ear 220 Maultistati h ernro EN R EN e ia 220 12 Card Software User Manual 1 Copyright amp License Agreement Copyright Notice This document contains informati
11. i SOOOSOSCSCSCisS nt en Beer Cael Ca J maj a The Direct Encoding section allows you to read or encode the data of the checked track s The following table lists the number and type of characters allowed for each of the three tracks Track Separator is Separator is Separator is Note For more information see Chapter 22 Appendix B Magnetic Encoding Card Software User Manual 197 Tools Click the Tools tab to communicate directly with the printer Dai Falta Eraveting Teoh Heed cour Pee Perier FRU biasa mst The Manual Commands field allows to execute various printing commands See your Privilege card printer manual The Eject Card button moves and exits a single card from any position between the card feeder and the output tray and automatically synchronizes the ribbon The Synchronize button automatically synchronizes the selected ribbon Head Settings Click the Head Settings tab to adjust the black and white contrast the color contrast and the color intensity for the head printer 198 Card Software User Manual Cid Fipters iraia Tai Haii tere Coker rims Coben Ezaki Yeis fr j i He j Hyri Hi e eS treet j 5 et j 5 lipa j rj i Crui D o 7 Eiri bo 4 Hai i 3 Color Intensity Sets the values of yellow magenta and cyan and dye diffusion to adjust the amount of heat applied to transfer a maximu
12. the user will need to login the database Card Software Sources Card Software classifies data in two classes Internal Data Sources which it assures to exist and automatically configures External Data Sources which must be configured by the user running the ODBC administrator to gain access to his files Basically both data types use the same methods Internal Data Sources make life easier for a user who does not have a database system already installed SOL SQL Structured Query Language is the standard that the Card Software uses to talk to ODBC issuing commands to read and write data on the files Card Software User Manual 95 Card Software driver architecture The ODBC Desktop Database Drivers allow you to open and query a database through the Open Database Connectivity ODBC interface Application driver architecture for Win16 Win32s applications Application 16 bit Application 32 bit 32 Bit Thunking Driver Manager ODBC32 DLL l l ODBC Universal Thunking DLL ODBC16UT DLL ODBC Driver Manager ODBC DLL ODBC Desktop Database Driver ODBCJT16 DLL MSAJT200 DLL 16 bit Driver ISAM l database 96 Card Software User Manual Application driver architecture for Win32 applications Application 16 bit Application 32 bit ODBC Driver Manager ODBC DLL l 16 Bit ODBC Generic Thunking DLL ODBC16GT DLL l 32 Bit ODBC Generic Thunking DLL ODB
13. 2 3 4 Select a bar code image or single line text object Right click the selected object to display the object s property sheet Select the desired rotation amount Click OK The object will be rotated to the new position Tip To rotate the entire card 180 degrees when the card is printed select Rotate 180 degrees in the Card Print dialog box Stacking Objects When you re working with objects you ll find that you sometimes stack them to get the effect you want When you stack objects on top of each other they overlap Sometimes you ll want to change their order put the top object on the bottom for example Card Software User Manual 53 54 The Card Software has two commands you can use to move objects up or down in a stack Having these commands means you don t have to keep track of the order of the objects as you draw them That is you don t have to draw the bottom object first then the object that would be next on the stack and so on You can draw objects in any order and then move them up and down the stack as needed To stack an object 1 Select the object you want to move up or down in the stack 2 Onthe upper toolbar click the Move to Front or the Move to Back tool 3 The selected object will be placed at the front or the back of the stack Tip If you are working with stack of three objects and want to place the front object in the middle select the middle object and move it
14. Code Object 1 Open a Magnetic Code object and select for the track s 1 to 3 you want to encode ODBC Source as Variable Source Magnetic Code Object None None None x m Track 1 Default Code Variable Source for Track 1 None z Properties None Track 2 Global Counter Source Print Counter Source Encode Keyboard Input Source Date Time Source IV Encode Concatenation Source ODBC Source iNone 7 Properties m Track 3 I lencade Default Code Variable Source for Track 3 None ie FIGpenies Clear Cancel 2 The Source ODBC Source Selection dialog box appears Select the column which contains the records you want to encode in each track and click Finish 132 Card Software User Manual ra a j o j 3 Save your card layout Your card and the database are connected Whenever yov ll open your card the database automatically will be found and opened as well The Card Software Database Functions Bane a Database To add a new record to your database select Add from the database menu You also can click the Add Record button at your database toolbar Edit the record and save it clicking the Save Record button at your database toolbar To delete a record select Delete from the database menu You also can click the Delete Record button at your database toolbar Quick Editing The End of Fields dialog box is a Card Software concept which
15. Data Source dialog box appears Select Microsoft FoxPro Driver dbf and click Finish Dik wi T J Hiiri ase Disa ch so Hermia Emi Diets j shi Card Software User Manual 115 116 3 The ODBC Microsoft FoxPro Setup dialog box appears Type the name that identifies the data source such as Employees List 4 Description field An optional description of the data in the data source for example Hire date salary history and current review of all employees 5 Choose the correct version of your FoxPro database FoxPro 2 0 2 5 or 2 6 6 Disable the Use current Directory check box Click the Select button and browse to the database you want to connect 7 For more information on Select Indexes and Options gt gt see Microsoft documentation ODAC Migeeenl FiaPan Tatag Date aac feet Erpen io j Diwani Hra dais nisp fries red cued ees A al Cae Hee 8 Click OK to confirm all settings and end your ODBC session clicking the OK button in the ODBC Data Source Administrator dialog box You are back to the ODBC Source Selection dialog box How to Select the MS FoxPro data source 1 Click the Refresh button in the ODBC Source Selection dialog box Browse through the available data source listing until you find the name of the data source for example Employees List you just defined and click the Next button Card Software User Manual 2 The Select table dialog box appea
16. Defining an Overlay sno a a denticl wenn E RE 86 Bitmap Based OVErIAY siint osa aaea EE AAA 89 Card Software User Manual 7 9 Chip Gat suavisssvccseuscisiaes huavescnetevsenssvvennesounse insi r iissa 90 About Chip Cards ere e Man E sini e E e Seat 90 Chip Card Process nnii e E E E E EEE E RE 90 Chip Card Properties nsee i ana E E E RESES 9 Chip Card Encoding sa renne iera oE ten eta E eS 93 10 Card Software and Database sscccssscsssssssessccsssscsessees 94 Introduction to ODBC oon cecee cee ceseeseceseeseceeeseeeeeeeeseneeeaseaeesaeaee 4 ODBC Basics Serea bs chess aeea orein a TARS 94 File Form ts szeria eaei E RENEE E EAE i n EE 94 Purpose 0f ODBC ynne a UA eae A 95 Desktop versus Server Client nosesseeeeeeeessreersererreresrersreesesrees 95 Card Software SOUTCES neseseeeseseereeeseseesereeesrsersesersersesersereseseeeeseses 95 NTO EEE EE E a ieee tad ahd 95 Card Software driver architecture esesseeesseeesesesesresrrresreesererrsreresee 96 Application driver architecture for Win16 Win32s applications 96 Application driver architecture for Win32 applications 97 Database Structure nieee e ee E RE A a a E St 97 Data TY pe carar E E E E E E E E E S 98 About Data Types usoni iise n E E EE N ER E 98 Card Software Internal Database Data Types nosses 98 Data Source siege ee E AO ee Rea 98 LAT OMUCT ON fi cree sn cae e a Ah ui nd cans vata teeta es hase 98 Card Software Internal Database 0
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18. Manual 5 Working with Objects This section provides information on objects their properties and how to edit them Card Software Objects With the exception of magnetic encoding information and Smart Card data all cards are made up of objects Lines text images bar codes are objects What you can do with an object depends on whether you created it in the Card Software or you inserted it from another application Once you know how to manipulate the different types of objects you ve mastered a lot of what s involved in creating cards Terms That Apply to Objects As you ve already discovered objects are the key building blocks in the Card Software Just about everything you work on is an object There are different types of objects and the behavior of an object depends on its type The Card Software objects are native to the Card Software embedded objects are objects you create in another application Some of the terms used to describe working with objects may be new to you Object The text lines and bar codes that you create using the Card Software tools and the pictures you import from other applications Property Each aspect of an object that you can manipulate using the Card Software tools and commands including size color line width and content Sizing handle The square at each corner and along the sides of a selected object Dragging a sizing handle resizes the object Selection rectangle The b
19. by the bar code standard used There are many bar code standards to choose from and each standard was developed for the specific data requirements of various industries Each standard dictates the maximum number of characters a symbol can represent as well as what kind of data is represented Consequently the number of characters in the information field and the type of information represented will play arole in which bar code standard can be used Other considerations include what standard s trading partners use the scanning environment type of scanner printable area symbol durability etc and the symbol printing requirements Symbologies Symbology is the term used to describe the rules specifying the way data is encoded into the elements bar and space widths that comprise a bar code standard Various characteristics further describe the symbology Some of these characteristics are described below The Character Set is the range of data characters that can be encoded into a given symbology Numeric symbologies only encode numbers others can encode numbers and letters and are called alphanumeric The Symbology Type can be either discrete or continuous In a discrete type each character stands alone and can be decoded separately from adjacent characters A continuous type has no inter character gaps the end of one character is the start of the next This results in a higher density symbology than the discrete type allowin
20. can click the Minimize button to reduce the window to an icon Restore Button Using the mouse you can click the Restore button a window to its previous size and location The restore button is only available when your window is maximized The Scroll Bars When the Card Work Area is zoomed in enlarged Scroll Bars appear that you can use to view information that exists beyond the borders of the window When you can view all the contents of the window without scrolling the Scroll Bars are absent Drag a Scroll Box or click one of the Scroll Arrows to scroll the window and move the desired part of the card image into view The Standard Status Bars Messages appear toward the top and at the bottom of the window in areas called status bars These messages describe what you are seeing and doing in the Card Software window as you work The Upper Status Bar displays the x and y coordinates of the pointer and the type location and size of the currently selected card object The Lower Status Bar displays the name of the tool when selecting the tool s button Card Software User Manual When you choose a command the Lower Status Bar provides a short message telling you what that command will do The Toolbars You can use toolbars for quick access to some of the most commonly used commands and tools The Standard Tool Bar contains mostly common Windows commands the Database Tool Bar and the Drawing Tool Bar contains only Ca
21. chosen Width Height These boxes define the size of the over lay area it s origin 0 0 is defined by the X Y Placement values Card Software User Manual 69 Tip For more information on this subject see Chapter 8 Overlay 70 Items List To open the Items List dialog box select Items List from the edit menu or press Ctrl I You can change object properties directly from this dialog box useful if you want to change small or hidden items You also can export images in bitmap format bmp from this menu Note Only image and text objects have a preview Edit Item list x List of Card Items Barcode Object Text Object Code PDF 417 Object Line Object Rect Object Filed Rect Object Overlay Object Overlay Object Export Edit Props Delete Export Select an image and click this button to export it The Save As dialog box appears Provide a filename for your image It will be saved as bitmap bmp Edit Properties Select any object and click this button The corresponding Object Properties dialog box opens Perform the changes you want and confirm with OK Changes are applied immediately at the card workspace Delete Click this button to delete permanently the selected item Confirm with OK Close Exit Edit Item List dialog box Card Software User Manual 6 Clipart Viewer The Clipart Viewer is a simple but powerful tool to browse through the clipart
22. numeric variable length discrete self checking two element width symbology used mostly by libraries package tracking systems and blood banks Developed in 1972 it was one of the original bar code symbologies The numbers 0 through 9 and the following six characters comprise its character set Codell Code 11 is a variable length numeric discrete high density symbology most frequently used to label telecommunications components and equipment Its name is derived from the fact Card Software User Manual that 11 different data characters can be represented in addition to a start stop character The Code 11 character set comprises the 10 digits plus the dash symbol Each character is represented by a group of three bars with three different bar widths and two included spaces with two space widths Though Code 11 is a discrete symbology it is not self I checking data security is obtained by using one or two check J digits a d Code 39 i Code 39 also called 3 of 9 is a variable length discrete self B checking two element width symbology that was the first be ox alphanumeric symbology to be developed Code 39 is currently the most widely used bar code for industrial and commercial non retail purposes in the world Every Gede39 eherectes has five bars and four spaces making a total of nine elements Three of the elements are wide hence the name 3 of 9 While being very accurate Code 39 is not a very dense b
23. of Columns Select the desired number of columns ECC Level Select the desired ECC level ECC Percent Select the desired ECC percent if ECC level is set to Auto Flip Option Select the desired flip option None Left Right Top Bottom or Flip Both Card Software User Manual 67 Protected If checked you can turn the object not selectable enabling the Activate Protected Objects function from the Options menu Output Resolution X Y Select the desired x and y resolution This specifies the symbol s aspect ratio used during symbol encoding for row and column calculations Rotation You can rotate the bar code from the default horizontal orientation Select a rotation value of 90 180 or 270 degrees Rotation is measured clockwise from horizontal Reduce Bar Width Select to reduce the bar width Reduce Bar Height Select to reduce the bar height Print in Black Panel Select if you want the bar code to be printed with the black panel of the printer ribbon Print in Black Panel is recommended for the best contrast and readability Binary Encode Select to encode the data in binary Truncated Select to truncate Note For more information on the characteristics of PDF symbols see Chapter 18 About PDF symbols Overlay Properties Overlay properties are Overlay coverage From the Choose Overlay box select the overlay coverage desired Card Software User Manual Predefined Overlays If the selected
24. offers the possibility to customize how to proceed with an image field and which database functions you want to perform The End of Fields dialog box appears after you press Enter in the last record field and allows you to configure and decide what you want to do next Card Software User Manual 133 How to proceed with the Image Field If your database has two or more image fields select the field you want to configure The command Open From File lets you select an image from a local or network disk Select Acquire if you perform the image acquisition using TWAIN interface Paste copies a bitmap from the Windows Clipboard Select Freeze if you are using the MCI interface to transform the analog signal in digital data The Operations section allows you to choose the functions you want to perform Save saves the current record Print prints the current record Make sure the settings in the print dialog box are correct New Record display a new blank record with all fields Multiple combinations are allowed Moving between Records To move to the first record select Move First from the database menu You also can click the Move First button at your database toolbar To move to the last record select Move Last from the database menu You also can click the Move Last button at your database toolbar 134 Card Software User Manual To move to the next record select Move Next from the database menu You als
25. overlay coverage was Predefined Selected Area Without Overlay se lect one of the option buttons Tip If you select one of the Predefined Overlays option buttons the overlay coverage box will automatically be set to Predefined Selected Area Without Overlay Bitmap If the selected overlay coverage was Bitmap Based Overlay type the path of the bmp bitmap file you wish to use as overlay pattern If you don t know the file name click Browse to select the file The Bitmap Based Overlay concept was designed to provide the possibility to create a hologram effect on the printed card It is based on a monochrome pattern which tells the printer to spare out all dark areas in the bitmap when printing the overlay which produces the hologram ef fect Tip Use black amp white images for bitmap overlay Anyway you may use a colored bitmap The Card Software will automatically convert your bitmap to Black amp White Preview on Screen Select this checkbox if you want to see the overlay depicted on the screen For the Bitmap Based Overlay there is no preview on screen X Y Placement Use these boxes if the selected overlay coverage was User Selected Area With Overlay or User Selected Area Without Overlay They define the horizontal X and vertical Y location of the upper left corner of the overlay area The overlay in this area is printed or not printed depending on which user selected area was
26. place a corner of the PDF Symbol 3 Press and hold the left mouse button and drag in any direction As you drag arectangle forms with one corner fixed where you began to drag the other corner follows the pointer Continue dragging until the rectangle is the desired size 4 Release the mouse button The PDF Symbol Properties dialog box appears Card Software User Manual 83 84 10 eae oem fis rT jaca tanec Gumbel pem Gk Eel fip De she TE Ch Ca Don Level EO pe v m 1 Tsemi LEE Bii iini r has Fu shai C P eh ot Pia l ge D Fika Ba Fight l imap rmi p P Jema pe Select the desired options for the PDF symbol See Chapter 18 About PDF Symbols Set the Variable Source as Keyboard Input The Source Keyboard Input Properties Dialog Box appears Cee ttn sf inte ikea Type Employee s ID Number as default text on the Source Keyboard Input Properties Dialog box Click OK to confirm and close the Source Keyboard Input Properties Dialog Box Click OK to close the PDF Symbol Properties dialog box The PDF Symbol which appears on the on screen card contains the encrypted information Employee s ID Number At print time you provide the correct data 11 On the Standard toolbar click the Printer Tool The Card Print dialog box appears See Chapter 21 Appendix A Printing amp Ribbon Card Software User Manual 12 Click OK The Text Input Dialog box appears pr
27. ribbon has sections comprising three dye sublimation panels yellow magenta cyan a black resin panel and an overlay panel 6 Panel Color Ribbon CMYKVK Used only with the Privilege 400 series printers this ribbon has sections comprising three dye sublimation panels yellow magenta cyan a black resin panel an overlay panel and an additional black resin panel The last black panel can only be used to print on the back surface of the card This ribbon selection is used in conjunction with the Front and Back options below Monochrome Ribbon K This is a single color resin ribbon available in ten colors Black Sublimation Ribbon Overlay SV This ribbon has sections comprising one black dye sublimation panel plus one overlay panel Black Resin Ribbon Overlay KV This ribbon has sections comprising one black resin panel plus one overlay panel Overlay V This ribbon is a single overlay panel ribbon Hologram This ribbon is a single hologram panel ribbon ote Because of their ability to print varying color and gray scale images dye sublimation ribbons are best used to print photographs and other graphics Resin ribbons are more durable and resistant to scratching so are best suited to print bar codes and text Card Software User Manual Setting the Ribbon Type Set the ribbon type for your Privilege Printer To produce proper print results the Card Software must know the type of ribbon that is installed in the prin
28. source Card Software User Manual Driver Manager The Driver Manager is a dynamically linked library DLL with an import library The primary purpose of the Driver Manager is to load drivers The Driver Manager also performs the following 1 Uses the ODBC INI file to map a data source name to a specific driver dynamically linked DLL 2 Processes several ODBC initialization calls 3 Provides entry points to ODBC functions for each driver 4 Provides parameter validation and sequence validation for ODBC calls Driver A driver is a DLL that implements ODBC function calls and interacts with a data source a data source includes the data a user wants to access and the information needed to get to that data The Driver Manager loads a driver when the application calls it A driver performs the following tasks in response to ODBC function calls from an application Establishes a connection to a data source Submits requests to the data source Translates data to or from other formats if requested by the application Returns results to the application Formats errors into standard error codes and returns them to the application Declares and manipulates cursors if necessary This operation is invisible to the application unless there is a request for access to a cursor name Initiates transactions if the data source requires explicit transaction initiation This operation is invisible to the application Card Software Use
29. the Standard toolbar To quickly open one of the last cards you worked on choose it from the list of recently used files at the bottom of the File menu To open an existing card click the Open button on the upper toolbar When the Open dialog box appears select the document in the File Name box and then click OK If you don t see the Card you want The File Name box initially lists card files in the directory in which you last saved or opened a card If the card file you want is not listed click another drive and or directory If you choose you can open several card files during a Card Software session Use the methods listed above to select the desired card files If more than one window is open the title bar for the active window the one in which you are working is a different color or intensity than other title bars Saving Card Files Until you give a new card document a unique name the Card Software displays in the title bar a temporary name The first new document is CARD 1 the second CARD2 and so on Card Software User Manual 37 To save a card on disk click the Save button on the Standard tool bar When you save a card for the first time the Card Software displays the Save As dialog box so that you can type a name for the card file Ee Hajali aj Fam fa O hase i Naming a Document To make it easier to find your documents you can use long descriptive filenames The complete path to the fi
30. the black panel of the printer ribbon select the Print in Black Panel check box Print in Black Panel is recommended for best contrast and readability Check Digit Select this check box if you want a check digit to be added to the data when the bar code is printed Show Data Select this check box if you want the data to be printed in human readable form below the bar code symbol Horizontal Bars Select this check box if you want horizontal protection bars added to the printed bar code symbol Vertical Bars Select this check box if you want vertical bars added to the printed bar code symbol Card Software User Manual Spacer Select this check box if you want a spacer character added to the printed bar code symbol Protected If checked you can turn the object not selectable enabling the Activate Protected Objects function from the Options menu Note While some bar codes will accept numbers letters and symbols others will accept only numbers See Chapter 17 About Bar Codes PDF Symbol Properties Dalan ramie Po l mr Wines Hp l mner r r praep EM epee C Oe Belarc fake of fos eke of Cole ie pei bali canst AA a i oor Ib bes tint D ei he ayes E Pa itech Pai La T Aa niai T isap iaia u PDF symbol properties are Data to Encode Type the data you want to appear in the bar code Ensure the data is valid for the PDF bar code style Number of Rows Select the desired number of rows Number
31. the character definition to ANSI Windows or OEM DOS OEM specifies a non ANSI character set Press the Guess button to verify the column names F1 F2 etc if you disable the column name header check box Card Software User Manual 8 Click OK to confirm all settings and end your ODBC session clicking the OK button in the ODBC Data Source Administrator dialog box You are back to the ODBC Source Selection dialog box How to Select the MS Text data source 1 Click the Refresh button in the ODBC Source Selection dialog box Browse through the available data source listing until you find the name of the data source for example Pupils List you just defined and click the Next button Analai D aac a Cami aes a ein a Cieni Lint ee ee ee 2 The Select table dialog box appears Select the table you want to work with and click Finish The database view appears in a split window next to the card view Use the database toolbar to navigate add new modify or delete records see section The Card Software Database Functions later in this chapter Common Errors 1 Decimal separator and text file delimiter are matching The automatic setting of the decimal separator during Windows installation defines a comma as decimal separator for most of the European countries As the CSV file delimiter is acomma Card Software User Manual 123 124 as well the text driver gets confused Open Regi
32. to select it then press CTRL X cut or CTRL C copy 2 Position the pointer where you want to paste the text and click 3 With text on the Windows clipboard cut or copied press CTRL V paste Image Properties Image properties are Image Width Select the desired width for the image Image Height Select the desired height for the image Keep Aspect Select this check box to keep the same horizontal to vertical aspect ratio when changing the image size This will prevent image distortion Rotation You can rotate the image from the default horizontal orientation Select a rotation value of 90 180 or 270 degrees Rotation is measured clockwise from horizontal Protected If checked you can turn the object not selectable enabling the Activate Protected Objects function from the Options menu Print in Black Panel If you want the image to be printed with the black panel of the printer ribbon select the Print in Black Panel check box Print in Black Panel is recom mended for signature files or similar Card Software User Manual Note Double Clicking an image will distort it occupying the sizing rectangle completely Double Click again to return to the previous appearance Image Tools Click Tools The Image Tools dialog box appears A collection of tool buttons and menu commands are available to enhance the selected image Card Software User Manual 63 64 Edit Menu Undo Reverses the last
33. to the front Duplicating Objects Duplicating an object creates a copy of the object that s slightly offset from the original The Duplicate command doesn t place a copy of the object on the Clipboard To duplicate an object 1 Select the object 2 From the Edit menu choose Duplicate Item or press CTRL D 3 The duplicated item appears on top of the object you selected Drag it to place it where you want it Tip You can use the Duplicate command to make an array of objects Card Software User Manual Editing Object Properties Each object has certain properties associated with it You can change the properties of an object editing its Object Properties dialog box The Card Software provides two ways to display an object s property dialog box using a menu command or using a mouse shortcut To use a menu command to edit an object s properties 1 From the Edit menu choose Item List The Edit Item List dialog box appears Tet pi Coda PDF 17 Obri Line Dtr Flea soi Filed Rect Dii 2 Select an object from the List of Card Items 3 Click Edit Props The Object Property dialog box appears 4 Examine or change any properties 5 Click OK Note If you select an image you can export it the Save As dialog box appears to any directory in your computer system See later in this chapter in section Item List Card Software User Manual 55 To use a mouse shortcut to edit an o
34. with Ok This newly created database doesn t contain any tables for information how to create and edit new tables refer to section Working with Tables earlier in this chapter 7 For more information on Advanced and Options see Microsoft documentation EHE irimia forera 1 trip 3 mF B Daaa e Gilt 2 2 2 8 Drewes Stee iar eae bree ed cet eer ni ll rts Taa Deian di veske iaraa m Hie me J Cret 3 Traim L abate F ir C paber 8 Click OK to confirm all settings and end your ODBC session clicking the OK button in the ODBC Data Source Administrator dialog box You are back to the ODBC Source Selection dialog box Card Software User Manual How to Select the MS Access data source 1 Click the Refresh button in the ODBC Source Selection dialog box Browse through the available data source listing until you find the name of the data source for example Clients List you just defined and click the Next button 2 The Select table dialog box appears Select the table you want to work with and click Finish The database view appears in a split window next to the card view Use the database toolbar to navigate add new modify or delete records see section The Card Software database Functions later in this chapter Setup MS dBase Data Source How to setup a MS dBase data source 1 From the database menu click connect The ODBC Source Selection dialog box opens Click the ODBC Manager but
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36. 2 Move the pointer to a place on the card where you want to place a corner of the PDF symbol 3 Press and hold the left mouse button and drag in any direction As you drag arectangle forms with one corner fixed where you began to drag the other corner follows the pointer Continue dragging until the rectangle is the desired size 4 Release the mouse button The PDF Symbol Properties dialog box appears Das in ireak F Kaaba turer fu o hsbs dism Hust of Dod Ea igi ECC ree ELC Broce asta ii I Prina sa EA TUTT le Opt l Ake Ba yii FP Pisin Biot Forel Oa r Aeicria japi DV o Poot ri Camm p Type the data you want to appear in the PDF symbol 6 If you want the PDF symbol printed in an orientation other than horizontal 0 Degrees select a Rotation value of 90 180 or 270 degrees The rotation is measured clockwise from horizontal Card Software User Manual 45 46 If you want the PDF symbol to print with the best black contrast to a white or light colored background select the Print in Black Panel check box This will print the PDF symbol with the black panel of the ribbon instead of using the three ribbon colors to form a process black Use Print in Black Panel for the best results The five remaining check boxes pertain to the characteristics of the printed PDF symbol See Chapter 18 About PDF Symbols Click OK The PDF symbol will appear on the card Card Software User
37. 3 Microsc 3 The ODBC Microsoft Visual FoxPro Setup dialog box appears Type the name that identifies the data source such as Employees List 4 Description field An optional description of the data in the data source for example Hire date salary history and current review of all employees 5 Choose between Visual FoxPro database dbc or Free Table directory 6 Click the Browse button and choose the database you want to connect 7 For more information on Options gt gt see Microsoft documentation E i Fem daie DEL P Fea abi g D Peara ri ae e laoa db Prr j ipm Card Software User Manual 125 8 Click OK to confirm all settings and end your ODBC session clicking the OK in the ODBC Data Source Administrator dialog box You are back to the ODBC Source Selection dialog box How to Select the MS Visual FoxPro data source 1 Click the Refresh button in the ODBC Source Selection dialog box Browse through the available data source listing until you find the name of the data source for example Employees List you just defined and click the Next button 2 The Select table dialog box appears Select the table you want to work with and click Finish The database view appears in a split window next to the card view Use the database toolbar to navigate add new modify or delete records see section The Card Software Database Functions later in this c
38. 4 TAT OAUCHION enie entr e E becuse bovcens vad ees Noe eee 174 Bar Code Stand rads ccccccccccccccscccccccvesseccecesssceceecsessaecesesessnsseeecenens 175 SYMDbOlO BIOS serrait ee e cous ayes hh ease i ee eitan 175 Card Software Symbologies sssesseseeeessseresssessesrssesrsseerereereresreerrrree 176 BOF AAE ER EE EE E E SESS 176 COUGAR oen naani iine i ee i eaa ETE AEE Ea Nia 176 COMET mhea a site ites Saute de Rees Ru bes ess 176 10 Card Software User Manual Code OS i Pies Mer cere Satish sensei eid oi ces eee ae ee eee 177 Code 12 Siccaseeste te a Buea ya aa e habeas E OREA Ea ia EaR aTe 178 PAN easa Ba eet a eh cat A A Baus A 178 EAN 128 0 0 tls Hah gut ea el be Rade 178 TNGUSITIOUD OFS merin stein 3 testing cee cheb ty aaa bes Saws NSS 179 Interleaved 2 Of D sissies isi aune n a heise ed testy sag RE 180 MST rescind nce ant aad at etek A cai a a eat ented 180 UPC AG Ach sete awa Nain Qaida ip iia 180 UP OT DEEE EETA E EE eit Seat aloes as E eee 181 DOLE POM eE AA rE E E A EEE AN E RAE 181 18 About PDF Symbols u ccsssccssssecsssscssssscsessscsesssessssceees 182 About Two dimensional Bar Codes 00 eee eeeecceeeeecereeeeeeeeeeeeeneesaeenee 182 PDFAVY eesti hehe nine ee EE 183 19 The Twain Interface ai csiss cccdicserisvsinestegsnis odkibcvaroitinnctess 185 OVERVIEW OL TWAIN oxy oecssecsepsssspeescisnseegon sateen EE E E PEE E EKE EE 185 GOS Of TWAIN icnn aenea E a EN O TENE ati 185 The Twain Process a
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40. C32GT DLL ODBC Driver Manager ODBC32 DLL Database Structure Database Tab DRC OdslkighDRatnistlinsg rve terms build the OBISCHE ODL EDADE DAIMA Pun Sais ich as 1 meine ek term you poeng an a ice closet Database the office closet itself Table a card index box nee the lt closet Record a file card inside the card index box Field Column a predefined part of the file card for example name field or address field etc Data the particulars typed in the name field Card Software User Manual 97 Data Type About Data Types Database columns are defined to contain a certain type of data the most commonly used data type is maybe CHAR stands for character You need to define different data types for each column if you want to store data like images directly inacolumn Each database format supports different data types which are translated by the ODBC driver into a SQL data type This allows an application to interact with a database bi directionally This interaction is not 100 though as each different driver imposes certain limitations Card Software Internal Database Data Types The Card Software supports five Data types Text Number Integer Number Photo and Memo Text The data type text builds a single lined field which may contain up to 254 characters Number The data type number builds a single lined field which may contain any value between 1 7e 308 to 1 7e 308 Integer Number T
41. Card button The Chip Card Properties dialog box appears 2 Type the path of the executable file of your chip card processing software in the Command Line box You can also click the Browse button next to the Command Line box The Choose Application dialog box appears Select the directory of your executable file and click OK C ie Peed pee a tow 3 Set optional the arguments supported by your chip card processing software in the arguments box Card Software User Manual 91 4 From the Source drop down box select the data source variables you want to provide See Chapter 7 Working with Variables The data source you defined will be displayed in the Source Data box 5 From the Runtime Options section select how you want the print process to continue On User Command you have to click the Continue button in the Chip Card Process dialog box after the chip card encoding process terminated Chip Card Processing Eg L i Note If you click the Abort button the complete printing process will be canceled On Return File OK the Card Software continues the printing process automatically after receiving an OK message from a file created and returned by the chip card processing software Type the path of your return file in the Return File box You can also click the Browse button next to the Return File box The Choose Return File dialog box appears Select the directory of your return file and cl
42. Card Software User Manual Information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Nimero 5 Desenvolvimento de Software e Telecomunica es LDA hereafter called Number 5 The software described in this document is furnished under a license agreement and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of the license agreement It is against the law to copy the software on any other medium except as specifically allowed in the license agreement The licensee may make one copy of the software for backup purpose No part of this manual may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying and recording for any purpose without the written permission of Number 5 We want to have satisfied customers If you have any questions or problems please call Technical Support Monday through Friday at 0035 1 61 860 460 or send us an e mail to info nfive com If we are unavailable at the time we will return your call or fax as soon as possible The Card Software described in this User Manual is a trademark of Number 5 Other trademarks and trade names may be used in this document to refer to their entities claiming the marks and names or their products Number 5 disclaim any proprietary interest in trademarks and trade names other than its own Rev 5 November 98 Card Software User Manual 3 Number 5 Software Parque R S Sebast
43. F Symbol The Card Software provides the possibility to encode the information of an image or photo in your database into a PDF symbol The maximum size of an image which still can be encoded is 80 x 80 pixels If the height or width of an image is larger than 80 pixels its size will be recalculated to this value maintaining the image s proportions 144 Photo Encoding To encode an image into a PDF symbol 1 Open or create the card and database with the image 2 3 you want to encode On the lower toolbar click the PDF Symbol tool the pointer changes to a hand with the PDF icon Click on the card where you want to place a corner of the PDF symbol The PDF Symbol Properties dialog box appears Lii e Erani M i E hirr e oaa zj C Eby r D Emir bane a a H Deeps Flemiden perem Plan oie Fisk Detia T E ee ak pip Dpr Fri on ure BG 50 EDE jrm EDE Perri 2 Tink fia P Rma Y E 1 Dab j he Daan ee iaai Phere is fie Pra Foci tlt High ar aa reac l Danced ics Card Software User Manual 4 Select ODBC Source as Variable Source The Source ODBC Properties dialog box appears 5 Select the column which contains the image you want to encode 6 Click OK to close the Source ODBC Properties dialog box Edit the PDF Symbol Properties you want and Click OK The PDF symbol appears on the card Photo Reader The Photo Reader is a security tool which you can use in combination
44. PAL resolution Image transfer occurs as analog signal from the camera to the capture card and from here to the video card using the PCI bus Your operating system must support directX image information crosses directly to the capture card and direct Draw image information is directly displayed on screen Before you can use Video for Windows with the Card Software you must set the video source Use the Video Source command from the Options menu In the appearing dialog box click the Setup button for the Video for Windows driver Choose your VfW driver The Source button calls a driver specific dialog box for the overlay control settings saturation brightness contrast etc The Format button calls a driver specific dialog box for the video format settings image format dimensions etc Choose between Overlay or Preview video mode Both modes display in a reserved space the image information coming from the camera Besides this transfer is digital using the PCI bus images don t occupy a processor power and space on your hard disk until freeze time capturing and transforming the image into digital The Overlay video mode displays image information in real time The Preview mode is recommendable if your capture card or it s driver causes conflicts in overlay mode In Preview mode the Card Software takes control over image display but it s not in real time Card Software User Manual 151 152 The Test button call
45. Simply use the command Video Sources from the Options menu To select a TWAIN driver as default TWAIN source click the corresponding Setup button In the Select Source dialog box choose your Twain driver from the list Click the image button from the Drawing toolbar or use the command Image Object from the Drawing Tools menu Select the area which the image shall occupy later on the card The image object dialog box appears Click the Scan button A driver specific preview dialog box opens displaying the captured area Movements are displayed depending on the transfer speed of the capture board Make your settings and capture grab the desired image The image tools dialog box appears Make your changes as described in chapter 5 section Image Tools Card Software User Manual Using the Video for Windows VfW interface The 32 bit Card Software supports now Video for Windows VfW is the latest standard for image acquisition an evolution of the older MCI concept Cheap and powerful video capture cards are available on the market primarily designed for Internet Video Conferences but perfectly suitable for image acquisition with the Card Software Most of these capture cards are using Brooktree Bt848 chipset which tackles the tough challenges of blending and displaying the complex video graphics and text data streams embedded within Intercast video and broadcast transmissions It supports image resolutions up to 768 x 576 full
46. a Card Flip Assembly Specific Privilege Printer Properties From the File menu click Printer Setup The Printer Setup dialog box appears Check the Use Specific Printer option and select the type of the Privilege printer you want to work with Card Software User Manual 191 Click Properties and the selected printer properties dialog box appears pede 00 Pepe Card Click the card tab which allows you to change the card orientation When you change the card orientation the Card Software transfers the top and bottom margin measurements to the left and right margin measurements 192 Card Software User Manual Mitas FIO Mopar cet e Emnin Inte AMan Check the kind of orientation you want to work with Use the Print Self Test to send a test card to the printer You might want to do this to make sure your printer is setup correctly Eprom version head settings and serial number of the printer is printed on the test card Click Ok to close the printer properties dialog box Ribbon Click the Ribbon tab to setup the ribbon you want to use Piria PM Pork Card Software User Manual 193 194 Rib N bon Types 3 Panel Color Ribbon CMY This ribbon has sections comprising three dye sublimation panels yellow magenta cyan 4 Panel Color Ribbon CMYK This ribbon has sections comprising three dye sublimation panels yellow magenta cyan and a black resin panel 5 Panel Color Ribbon CMYKV This
47. alog box To resize an object 1 Select the object 2 Move the mouse pointer over a sizing handle The pointer changes appearance to indicate the direction in which you can resize the object 3 Click and drag a sizing handle until the outline of the object is the right shape and size 50 Card Software User Manual Resizing Text To resize text 1 2 3 4 Select the text object Right click the object The Text Properties dialog box appears Type or select the desired Point Size Click OK The text is changed to the new size Note See Editing Object Properties for more detailed information Resizing a Line To resize a line 1 2 Select the line Sizing handles appear on each end of the line Drag one of the sizing handles to make the line the length you want Resizing a Bar Code You can resize a bar code only by using the sizing handles The bar code property sheet does not have width and height information Important Resizing a bar code requires special consideration to maintain the correct aspect ratio and data density for the bar code type being printed See Chapter 17 About Bar Codes Resizing a PDF Symbol You cannot resize a PDF Symbol It s appearance depends on the amount of encoded Data and the output resolution set tings See Chapter 18 About PDF Symbols Card Software User Manual 51 52 Moving and Aligning Objects Naturally you ll
48. ar code symbology taking many bars and spaces to represent a single character The Code 39 character set consists of the numbers O through 9 the upper case alphabet and the following characters and Space Asterisks are reserved as the start and stop characters Code 93 Pi Code 93 is a variable length alphanumeric continuous four element width symbology specifically designed to complement Code 39 The two symbologies can be freely mixed in an environment with no software change required Because of its small size it is used on electronic components but it is a not very popular bar code symbology 5 Code 93 encodes 43 data characters consisting of 0 9 A Z 6 symbols and space four control characters and a unique start stop character The entire ASCII character set can be encoded using the expanded version similar to Code 39 Code 93 can encode the same characters as Code 39 but has the advantage of being smaller Card Software User Manual 177 Code 128 Code 128 is a variable length alphanumeric continuous multiple element width high density symbology used in the shipping industry and on labels The Code 128 character set comprises 106 different printed characters and will use the least amount of space for data of six characters or more of any one dimensional symbology Each printed character can have one of three different meanings depending on which of three different character sets A B or C is e
49. ar on the card Font type and style Click Font The Font dialog box appears Select the desired font and style Card Software User Manual Point Size Enter the desired size Point size can also be changed from the Font dialog box Font Color Click Font Color The Color dialog box appears Select the desired color Rotation If you are printing only one line of text you can rotate the text from the default horizontal orientation Select a rotation value of 90 180 or 270 degrees The rotation is measured clockwise from horizontal Card Software User Manual 59 Note The Rotation property is unavailable if there is more than one line of text Alignment Determines the position of the text on the card Select the desired horizontal and vertical text alignment Horizontal alignment specifies how the text is aligned horizontally in respect to the text box on the card Vertical alignment specifies how the text is aligned vertically in respect to the text box on the card Note The vertical alignment options are unavailable if there is more than one line of text Print in Black Panel If you want the text to be printed with the black panel of the ribbon select the Print in Black Panel check box Protected If checked you can turn the object not selectable enabling the Activate Protected Objects function from the Options menu Selecting and Editing Text Important You cannot edit text directly on the screen i
50. are The Card Software user manual will guide you through this powerful application starting with creating a simple card work ing with objects and using system variables to the advanced features like Database Image Acquisition Logins and Pass words All about Printing and Encoding you find in Appendix A and B of this manual Complementary the Card Software Help function is a complete online tool you can use anytime you need information quickly or when your Card Software User Manual is not available Note Some features described in this manual are not available in all Card Software editions Using the Card Software Manual Before you start using the Card Software it s important to understand the terms and typographical conventions we use in the documentation General Conventions We use the following kinds of formatting in the text to identify special information Diamond bullet Step by step procedures You can use procedural information by using both the mouse and keyboard To choose a command from a menu you can use either the mouse or a keyboard shortcut CAPITAL LETTERS Keys on the keyboard appear in small capital letters For example the Enter key appears as ENTER When we ask you to press a combination of keys you ll see them connected by a For example CTRL P means to press the CTRL key and the P key at the same time Capitalized Words Commands you choose from the menus or dialog boxes appear capitalized
51. are and the text file This connection is handled by the MS Text Driver or any other driver for csv and txt files which must be configured in a way that it recognizes the file you want to call How to setup a MS Text data source 1 From the database menu click Connect The ODBC Source Selection dialog box opens Click the ODBC Manager button The Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator dialog box opens UNDA Data Sekar Amiria be Wie DEH Syetews DSM Fhe DSH OUE Doves Testing asi Cissi Lint Bickma fac nau Do rath T Ep Pisy impr i m rib Lokam Dipta Le Phair Entri heres aba Eroh List Bim F eP Deven fhe Hasta Lin Henot Paaka Ohw h Tuppa Liri bimo dea Dew cll E EEA L iH ahah op at ab a ie Pier k a UB the kad daa peed ued daa a i nda bine a pia and can och ba ied onthe omei rache coef 2 Click the Add button to setup a new data source The Create New Data Source dialog box appears Select Microsoft Text Driver csv txt and click Finish 120 Card Software User Manual Create New Data Source Select a driver for which you want to set up a data source 2 Microsoft Access Driver mdb 3 50 342800 Microsc Microsoft dBase Driver dbf 3 50 342800 Microsc Microsoft Excel Driver xls 3 50 342800 Microsc Microsoft FoxPro Driver dbf 3 50 342800 Microsc Microsoft Paradox Driver db 3 50 342800 Microsc Microsoft Paradox Driver db 3 50 342800 Micro
52. best compression to be achieved is applied but the Card Software may need more time for this performance The Card Software image compression algorithm is a variant of the LZW algorithm Database View Define View The Card Software allows you to change the column sequence of the displayed database From the database menu select Define View or press the Define View button from the database toolbar Click on the field name you want to move and drop it at the place you want Browse View Click the Browse Record button to change the database display from Record View to Browse View Use this function to get a list of all available records To browse quickly to a certain record double click it you must use its data in the first column The record and its fields is displayed in Record View Card Software User Manual Database Image Properties To open the database image properties dialog box right click the database image field Image size resolution and compression ratio are displayed liny Sire E m Birkap Armkisa I x ow Fork Congar Fii fE E3 LC The Card Software Database Reports The Card Software Database Report is an useful tool providing you to create save and print a customizable listing of your whole database or selections thereof Create Database Report Creating a new database report 1 From the Database menu select Reports or click the Report button in the Database Toolbar The Database Report
53. bject s properties 1 2 3 4 In the Card Work Area right click the object whose properties you want to edit The Object Properties dialog box appears Examine or change any properties Click OK Line Properties Line properties are Line Length Enter the desired line length Line Width Enter the desired line width Color Click Color The Color dialog box appears Select the desired color Click OK Protected If checked you can turn the object not selectable enabling the Activate Protected Objects function from the Options menu Note You can set a default line width From the Options menu choose Change Line Width Enter the desired default line width Click OK All new line objects including rectangles will be drawn with the new width Change Default Line Width x Enter Width millimeters Cancel Rectangle Properties Rectangle properties are 56 Rectangle Width Enter the desired width Rectangle Height Enter the desired height Line Width Enter the desired line width Card Software User Manual Color Click Color The Color dialog box appears Select the desired color Click OK Protected If checked you can turn the object not selectable enabling the Activate Protected Objects function from the Options menu Aepteragke Diget Pigqpesties Filled Rectangle Properties Filled Rectangle properties are Rectangle Width Enter the desired width Rectangle Height En
54. but incomplete code Therefore this symbology is best used with fixed length applications where the decoding equipment is programmed to accept scans with only the correct number of digits MSI MSTis a numeric variable length up to 13 digits continuous low density symbology developed in the early 1970s for mainly retail shelf marking and inventory control Each four bit character is 12 units wide with each zero bit being a one unit bar followed by a two unit space and each one bit being a two unit bar followed by a one unit space The complete symbol includes a start pattern data characters one or two check digits and a stop pattern Though MSI is a variable length symbology it is usually used in a fixed length format since it is not self checking The character set comprises the ten digits plus six additional characters UPC A UPC A Universal Product Code is a numeric fixed length 12 digits continuous four element width symbology and encoding system used since 1973 almost exclusively by the retail industry This makes UPC the most widely used bar code in North America Card Software User Manual It was designed to uniquely identify a product and its manufacturer In the U S manufacturers numbers are assigned by the Uniform Code Council in Dayton Ohio It is important to differentiate between the UPC coding scheme and the UPC symbology The actual UPC code is a 10 digit code the first five digits represent t
55. chs between front and back view The Log Menu First Goes to the first card document Previous Goes to the previous card document Next Goes to the next card document Last Goes to the last card document Print Prints the cards according to the status checked on the Status to Print dialog box Supplies status Error to a card if occurred Status Sets the card document status To Print Error Printed or Held The Window Menu Cascade Arranges the windows in a cascade view Tile Arranges all open windows in a tiled view Arrange Icons Arranges icons Card window list Provides a means to quickly display any open card and database or batch print Advanced Feature window The names of all open windows will be displayed Click on the desired file name to activate the window Card Software User Manual 163 Image Tools Window The File Menu New Creates a new card file Open Opens an existing card file Close Closes the active card file Save Saves the card to a disk file Save As Saves the card with a name you specify to a disk file Card Setup Selects portrait or landscape orientation Card Print Displays the Card Print dialog box to print and or encode a magnetic stripe chip Printer Setup Displays the Printer Setup dialog box to specify a chosen printer Scan Image Selects a source for image acquisition or starts the image ac quisition process Recently use
56. ckly open acard you recently worked with The names of the last up to four used files will be displayed Click on the desired file name and the card will be Card Software User Manual opened and displayed Logins Advanced Feature Configuration of user login password and area access Batch Print File Management Advanced Feature Batch print file configuration preview and printing Exit Exits the Card Software program The Edit Menu Cut Deletes the selected object and places it on the Clipboard so you can paste it elsewhere Copy Makes a copy of the selected object and places it on the Clipboard Paste Pastes the object from the Clipboard onto the card work area A copy of the pasted object remains on the Clipboard until it is replaced by another Cut or Copy command Use Private Clipboard Selects the Card Software private clipboard The private clipboard allows the transfer of all Card Software objects maintaining their properties Use Windows Clipboard Selects the standard Windows clipboard The Windows clipboard transfers Card Software objects as bitmaps Delete Deletes the selected object completely without putting a copy on the clipboard Select All Selects all the objects on the card Card Software User Manual 157 158 Move To Front Moves the selected object to the front of a stack of other objects Move To Back Moves the selected object to the back of a stack of other objects Item Li
57. command performed and returns the image to its previous state Quickly perform this command clicking the corresponding tool button Keep Ratio The tracker rectangle maintains its previously defined height and width relation Image Menu Adjust Colors The command Contrast decreases or increases an image contrast by moving the RGB red green blue tracker bar Unlock the control field Lock to change values for RGB separately Quickly perform this command clicking the corresponding tool button The command Brightness decreases or increases image brightness by moving the RGB tracker bar Unlock the control field Lock to change values for RGB separately Quickly perform this command clicking the corresponding tool button Effects The command Blur decreases the contrast between pixels the image appears smoother Sharpen increases the contrast between pixels the image appears more focused Sharpen More has the same effect but with higher intensity High Contrast lets you set a threshold value to kodalith an image Grayscale Converts the image from color to gray Remove Noise Removes graining by averaging areas of the image Crop This command is only available after selecting an image area with the select button from the image tools toolbar Define the area you want to keep by dragging and resizing the selection rectangle Then use the command Crop from the Image menu Resize Select the desired value then click Resize Kodalith D
58. control returned to the Card Software Prompt for Connection Information Normally communication between the ODBC driver and a database is not visible for the user If the Prompt is enabled it allows an ODBC driver to interact with the user e g asking for login password or database directory Use ODBC Cursor Library disable this check box only if you are working with a powerful database engine like SQL Server Informix Oracle etc It gives complete control to these engines overriding ODBC drivers Card Software User Manual 137 138 Allow data edition check this box if you want to edit a database from within the Card Software Please note that not all ODBC drivers permit data edition Refresh Delay determines the time that the Card Software waits for to refresh the card view after editing a field in your database Trailing Decimals allows you to specify the number of decimal places for numeric floating print data Record Set Counter if enabled the Card Software lists the number of records of a database or in a query found Image Transfer Options Controls image data transfer between database and the Card Software bi directionally Adapt the buffer size value to the average image size of your database To reduce database size you can enable the Compress Images check box Images are compressed if greater than the value determined in the corresponding box If you enable the Use Maximum Compression check box the
59. current record j Save Saves the current Record a Reports Creates and prints database reports 4 Properties Allows to configure the database interface properties E Define View Allows to define the database view The Batch Print Toolbar The Batch Print Toolbar contains command buttons for accessing the commands in the View and Log menus Elxly ol gt j4 i S Al The tools on the Batch Print Toolbar are El To Print Sets the Status To Print to a card document x Error Sets the Status Error to a card document vI Printed Sets the Status Printed to a card document w Held Sets the Status Held to a card document 3 Front Back View Toggles between both sides of the card Li First Moves to the first card document 4 Previous Moves to the previous card document D gt Next Move to the next card document Card Software User Manual P Last Move to the last record EJ Print Prints cards according to the status checked on the status to print dialog box m Close Closes the current Batch File The Image Tools Toolbar The Image Tools Toolbar contains a collection of command buttons to enhance the selected image zlaja 2 _lo The tools on the Image Tools Toolbar are R Arrow Deselects Zoom and Crop tool a Select The mousepointer changes to a fine cross Define the area you want to crop by dragging and resizing the selection rectangle Q Zoom Select this t
60. d File List Provides a means to quickly open a card you recently worked with The names of up to four recently used files will be dis Card Software User Manual played Click on the desired file name and the card will be opened and displayed Logins Advanced Feature Configuration of user login password and area access Batch Print File Management Advanced Feature Batch print file configuration preview and printing Exit Exits the Card Software program Edit Menu Undo Reverses the last command performed and returns the image to its previous state Quickly perform this command clicking the corresponding tool button Keep Ratio The tracker rectangle maintains its previously defined height and width relation Image Menu Adjust Colors The command Contrast decreases or increases an image contrast by moving the RGB red green blue tracker bar Unlock the control field Lock to change values for RGB separately Quickly perform this command clicking the corresponding tool button The command Brightness decreases or increases image brightness by moving the RGB tracker bar Unlock the control field Lock to change values for RGB separately Quickly perform this command clicking the corresponding tool button Effects The command Blur decreases the contrast between pixels the image appears smoother Sharpen increases the contrast between pixels the image appears more focused Sharpen Card Software User Manual 165
61. d Toolbar are Cj New Creates a new card file Open Opens an existing card file E Save Saves the card to a disk file EJ Print Displays the Card Print dialog box to print and or encode the active card x Delete Deletes the selected object completely without putting a copy on the Clipboard Ea Cut Deletes the selected object and places it on the Clipboard so you can paste it elsewhere a Copy Makes a copy of the selected object and places it on the Clipboard Paste Pastes the object from the Clipboard onto the card A copy of the pasted object remains on the clipboard Card Software User Manual 167 168 until it is replaced by another cut or copy command Es Duplicate Makes a copy of an object and places it slightly overlapping the original Unlike the Copy command Duplicate doesn t place a copy of the object on the Clipboard a Move to Front Moves the selected object to the front of a stack of objects fa Move to Back Moves the selected object to the back of a stack of objects El Front Side Sets the view to the front side of the card 3 Back Side Sets the view to the back side of the card 2 About Displays the Card Software version serial number and copyright information R2 Topical Help Displays help information about a command or window object The Drawing Toolbar The Drawing Toolbar contains command buttons for accessing the commands in the Draw men
62. d is stored in an text field like c images 001 bmp ODBC point to image file The Card Software supports multiple image field and or image file linking 1 Open an image object and select Image Source Image Object None x Image width feo millimeters Image Height f2o millimeters Variable Source None Eraperties Image Source Protected r Rotation O Degrees E C 90D Sarre Open from File C 180 Degrees C 270 Degrees Scan m Preview Cancel 128 Card Software User Manual 2 The Source Image Properties dialog box appears Choose either ODBC point to image field or ODBC point to image file Select the column which contains the information of your image and click Finish Source Image Properties Choose Source Image Printing Scan Image x Printing Scan Image Printing File Choose Image BC point to Image File ODBC _ Field Default Path JCAWINDOWS Browse Default File Format extension BMP Ne Lx ODER Setup if Cancel Column Name A Source description fimage Source 3 Confirm the Source Image Properties clicking OK In the image Object dialog box choose the options rotation keep aspect protected you want to apply and click OK 4 Inthe card work area resize if necessary you can resize the image with the mouse 5 Save your card layout Your card and the database are c
63. dialog box appears Type the listing title Select a field you want in your report from the Database Field box and click the Move Right button You also can double click the field to move it to the Fields to Print box To deselect a field from the Fields to Print box select it and click the Move Left button You also can double click the field to move it back to the Database Field box Card Software User Manual 139 140 Attention Make sure that the sum of field characters to print isn t larger than the paper width otherwise the print result will be truncated If you need you can reduce de display size for a field for that just enter a lower value in the Size of the Database Report dialog box You can also change the font Save your database report clicking the Save button The Save As dialog box appears Type a filename and click OK Use eventually the Card Software Filter Functions to make a selection of records To select the font style and size you want your report printed with click the Font button The Font dialog box appears Make your choice and click OK Optionally you can change your Printer Setup Click the Print Setup button and make your choices page layout default printer print to file etc and click OK To print your report click the Print button in the Database Report dialog box Attention If you click the Close button without saving your database report the selection you made will be permanently
64. e card document itself Card Software User Manual 209 Batch Print Options Print Status Symbols 2 amp To Print Cards marked with this symbol are ready to print X Error If an error occurrs while printing the card marked is with this symbol Printed Cards marked with this symbol were printed properly x _ Held Cards marked with this symbol are excluded from printing Printing using Print Status Double click the card document you want to print The Status to Print dialog box appears Select the status you want All cards marked with the corresponding symbol will be printed Click Continue to proceed Status to Print x Select Status IV To Print Error Printed Held Tip You can manually change the Print Status of each card Select the card you want to change Click the status symbol you want at the Batch Print Toolbar If you want to change the print status equally for all card included in the card document select the card document and click the status button you want apply Card Software User Manual Print Tools The Card Software offers a build in Printer Tool which you can access from the Printer Setup The Printer Tools allows you to communicate directly with the printer Build in Printer Tool To access the build in Printer Tool select Printer Setup from the File menu The selected Printer Tools dialog box appears See above Specific Privilege Printer Properties Fiber traci
65. e printer user manual for more information Card Software User Manual 213 214 Encoding with Specific Printer Properties To use the Printer Properties method 1 From the File menu choose Printer Setup The Printer Setup dialog box appears Select the specific printer name for your printer and click Properties The selected printer properties dialog box appears Dej Piso Dambo tom asaina Ferner Dari panig P g CET TTT w i ttt PAL g Lived Et 2 Click the Encoding tab In the Direct Encoding section select the check box for each track you want to encode Tip To erase magnetic data from a card select all three track check boxes but leave the data boxes blank 3 In the box to the right of the track number type the data you wish to encode Important You must keep the number of characters Including the three format characters within the limits listed previously for each track The Card Software will not prevent you from entering too many characters 4 Click Encode The printer will feed a card through the encoding station in the printer and encode the data on the card 5 If you do not wish to print anything on the card click Card Software User Manual Eject Card and the card will pass through the printer to the card out put tray 6 If you wish to print on the card click Ok then proceed as you would for printing a non magnetic card Don t forget to enable Encode in the Card Prin
66. e built into a 2D symbol While it makes the symbol somewhat larger the remaining symbol is remarkably secure There are a number of two dimensional symbologies in growing use today The 2D bar code supported by the Card Software is PDF417 PDF417 PDF417 is a multi row two dimensional high capacity high density bar code developed by Symbol Technologies Inc and announced in 1990 It essentially consists of a stacked set of smaller bar codes The symbology is capable of encoding the entire 255 character ASCII set PDF stands for Portable Data File because it can encode as many as 2725 data characters in a single bar code comprising 17 modules each containing 4 bars and spaces thus the number 417 Each symbol has a start and stop bar group that extends the height of the symbol The complete specification for PDF417 provides many encoding options including data compression options error detection 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 to gether 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 Card Software User Manual 183 184 The user may specify the module width the module height and the overall aspect ratio overall height to width ratio for the com
67. e file typically a chip card processing software during the printing process Laminate Allows you to laminate the card Only available if you have a P500 Choose the type of magnetic encoder installed in your printed Card Software User Manual Special P500 Properties A P500 printer includes a print station a card flip assembly and a lamination station This means that if you use a Privilege P500 the Card Software allows you to laminate cards as wel as to print both sides of the card The Lamination tab allows you to configure the lamination process Cad beer bodha Took Kamat ia Penis Drie PSC Deeded 7 at ho ras Yara You can Laminate your card either with Varnish or with P500 Overlaminate check the type of film you will be using for the lamination process Varnish select this option if you use an overlay film P500 Overlaminate select this option if you use the overlaminate film In the Front Back section check operation you want on each card layer Lamination Station enabled allows lamination on print station 2 Overlay on Print Station enabled allows overlay printing on print station 1 The Head Temperature allows you to adjust the temperature for the lamination The Card Speed allows you to adjust the speed of the lamination process Card Software User Manual 201 202 Defaults Sets Card Speed and Temperature at their default values Special P600 Properties A P600 includes two prin
68. e package which is the software key 24 Card Software User Manual Note The SmartCard Reader is connected to the serial port in a pass through manner so you can connect it to the same serial port as your mouse Starting After you run Setup you will see a program group in the Windows Program Manager called Card Software or another name you may have provided during installation The Card Software program group includes icons for all the Card Software components you installed Double click the Card Software program icon Card Software Oy Xx File Edit View Help as 2 2 BEGEWE Clipart Viewer Help Eie POF OH 2 A A 8 ODBC Problem Read PDF Administrator Report Form E object s selected 389 bytes Starting Windows with the Card Software If you want to start the Card Software each time you start Windows move or copy the Card Software icon to the Startup program group in Program Manager For more information about starting programs automatically from within Windows see your Windows documentation Quitting When you finish working with the program and are ready to quit the Card Software choose the Exit command from the File menu or press Alt F4 on the keyboard If you have made any changes since the last time you saved your card file the Card Software prompts you to save the file before exiting Click Yes to save the changes Card Software User Manual 25 3 Learning the Card Softw
69. eciet egos a n E E N eres ES 185 The Old Way ices eien aeea Bois ea R S 185 The ITw in WAY sis Sch sp Ne erte eet sen thie dh tes Hanicerts Rebbe eE ES 186 History of the Twain Consortium eee eeeeeeeeeeeceseeeeeeseeeeecaeeeneenee 186 20 ODBC Advanced Notions scscsccsscssssssssscrsssscsscsscsseesces 188 ODBC Components r e oeae eeoa np arpe abee EEE NEEE eRe 188 AP PLLC QtlON ran inaa E EAE E a EE 188 Drive Mana OF arren ni E a E E e AE 189 Drive ee rR RON sts ee Tek Se a sl 189 D t Source taen reene ct ites bats sis pda de ha ahaa EN 190 21 Appendix A Printing amp Ribbon cccssccsssscessseeeseees 191 Printer Setup s ier Bee heel Sarees Baek REA 191 Specific Printers erre Re ee Ea ERS svete sdpspodvasd ueee sees EESE TEES 191 Specific Privilege Printer Properties n sosssseeseseesenee 191 C r reani A cu vae ates antenna eess A a Os Aes E ET 192 RIDDON oeren eteta eia abate a E o EE EAN A ai 193 Ribbon Types noniin e nere aena Bee ee Ae 194 Setting the Ribbon Type cccccsccesceseeseceseeseceseeseceeceseceeeeseeseeeeeees 195 Setting the P400 or QreQter csccescsseescesecssceteeseceeesecneceseceeeeeees 196 Encoding spinon aT EErEE EA Ee SaO consented nested 197 IEA EENE ANETES EE EE EEEE 198 Card Software User Manual 11 Head Setnngs 055 sasdiscegsss igh covestescls detested ates EEA apis deees tag tess 198 PLUTO araea cance e ee vis ha ose aaa aoa eae hans Raa eh 200 Special P500 Properties
70. encoding process Card Software User Manual Encoding with a Windows Printer Driver To use the Windows Printer Driver 1 From the File menu choose Printer Setup The Printer Setup dialog box appears Select the Use Windows Printer option and select the printer you want to work with Click Ok 2 From the File menu choose Card Setup The selected printer dialog box appears Click the Magnetic Encoding tab 3 Check the Send Magnetic Encoder Data option and configure the macro Remember that the Start of Data macro must be identical to the driver macro Card Software User Manual 217 Important The default Card Software macro is a Fargo compatible Note If your printer track list is 0 1 2 please replace the X capital case for a x lower case on the macro 4 From the File menu choose Card Print The Card Print dialog box appears Check the Encode option confirm all the others print operations and click Ok SS a 218 Card Software User Manual 23 Appendix C Card Software Basic Features The Card Software is provided in 3 editions PREMIER PROFESSIONAL and MULTISTATION This section gives an overview of the basic features PREMIER contains all the basic features PROFESSIONAL all PREMIER features MULTISTATION contains all PROFESSIONAL features Basic Features Setup program on CD Wysiwyg multi document interface Rich set of design tools oriented to card design Full text trea
71. enefits and capabilities Important Provides information essential to the completion of a task You can disregard information in a note and still complete a task but you should not disregard an important note Caution A note that advises you that failure to take or avoid a specified action could result in loss of data Warning A note that advises you that failure to take or avoid a specific action could result in physical harm to you or the hardware Card Software User Manual 27 Advanced Feature Describes alternative methods using advanced features of Card Software not available in all editions see chapter 23 Appendix C Card Software Basic Features to know if your edition supports a specific feature Using Online Help You can view the Card Software Online Help Contents window by choosing Contents from the Help menu Dad Sofware H aip Ee Ed esha Cores Hiei Card Soltware Help Contents To ban hor be uma Hulp paar Fi From this window you can jump to more specific information Getting Help You can get help in several ways For example you can use the Help button on the Upper Toolbar to get context sensitive help about items on the screen and commands Context sensitive help is always available by pressing the F1 key from any screen 28 Card Software User Manual In addition many dialog boxes and message windows contain a Help button To use the comprehensive online index
72. er 12 Image Acquisition ODBC Data from internal or external database that you can access using ODBC see Chapter 12 Image Acquisition Adding Variable Data Variable Image To add a variable image to a card 1 On the lower toolbar click the Image tool the pointer changes to a hand with the Image icon 2 Move the mouse pointer to the point on the card where you want to place the upper left corner of the image 3 Press and hold the left mouse button and drag in any direction As you drag a rectangle forms with one corner fixed where you began to drag and the other corner following the pointer Continue dragging until the rectangle is the desired size Tip You can change one or both of the dimensions but you should ensure that Keep Aspect is checked Doing so will maintain accurate image proportions 4 Release the mouse button The Image Properties dialog a a a e T Card Software User Manual 77 5 Set the Variable Source as Image Source and the click Properties the Source Image Properties dialog box will appear 6 Choose the Image Source you want and click OK The image box you created in step 3 will appear on the on screen card with two diagonal lines through it This indicates that the image will be provided at print time Tip Select the Show Images Tools checkbox if you want to modify the image at print time 7 The image box you created in step 3 will appear on the on sc
73. er must include all prior versions of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT Termination Without prejudice to any other rights Number 5 Software may terminate this EULA if you fail to comply with the terms and conditions of this EULA In such event you must destroy all copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT and all of its component parts 3 UPGRADES If the SOFTWARE PRODUCT is an upgrade from another product weather from Number 5 Software or another supplier you may use or transfer the SOFTWARE PRODUCT only in conjunction with that upgraded product unless you destroy the upgraded product If the SOFTWARE PRODUCT is an upgrade of a Number 5 Software product you now may use that upgraded product only in accordance with this EULA If the SOFTWARE PRODUCT is an upgrade of a component of a package of software programs that you licensed as a single product the SOFTWARE PRODUCT may be used and transferred only as a part of that single product package and may not be separated for use on more than one computer 4 COPYRIGHT All title and copyrights in and to the SOFTWARE PRODUCT including but not limited to any images photographs animation s video audio music text and apples incorporated into the SOFTWARE PRODUCT the accompanying printed materials and any copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT are owned by Number 5 Software or its suppliers The Card Software User Manual SOFTWARE PRODUCT is protected by copyright laws and international treaty provision
74. etic Code Object Activates the Magnetic Code tool for encoding magnetic stripe cards Chip Card Options Activates the Chip Card Options for setting the parameters of a chip card processing application Overlay Clipping Defines the size shape and placement of the overlay coating The Options Menu Change Default Line Width Changes the default line width for all drawn objects that contain lines Card Software User Manual 159 Change Default Font Changes the default font for all text objects Video Sources Advanced Feature Selects the default Twain and Video for Windows source Activate Protected Objects Toggles the read only property of an object Grid Settings Selects the horizontal and vertical spacing of the layout grid and toggles the snap to the grid option Show Grid Toggles the display of the layout grid Snap to Grid Toggles the snap to grid option Keep Drawing Tool Keeps the current drawing tool selected Front amp Back Configure the front and back layer switching options The Tools Menu Printer Tools Allows you to setup the current printer properties Fit Object to Card Expands the selected rectangle or image to fill the full size of the card The Database Menu Advanced Feature Connect Connects to a database Disconnect Disconnects from the database Card Software User Manual Browse View Toggles between the Browse Record View First Moves to the first
75. g more information to be encoded in less space resulting in a smaller bar code symbol The Number of Element Widths is either two wide and narrow or multiple Multiple element width symbology is usually the higher density continuous type The symbology Length can be fixed or variable Card Software User Manual 175 Density describes the amount of data that can be encoded in a given unit of length A symbology is said to be Self Checking if a single printing defect will not cause a character to be transposed into another character in the same symbology A Start Code is a particular pattern of lines and spaces indicating the beginning of the bar code symbol A Stop Code indicates the end of the symbol The start and stop codes are sometimes also used to indicate the scanning direction In the most common symbology Code 39 the start and stop codes are asterisks The Check Character is used by the scanner to validate that the correct data has been decoded It is placed in a predetermined position and its value is based on a mathematical relationship of the other characters in the symbol A Check Digit is a check character that can assume only numeric values A Bi directional symbology can be successfully scanned in either direction Almost all symbologies in use today are bi directional Card Software Symbologies The symbologies listed below can be printed with the Card Software 3 of 9 See Code 39 Codabar Codabar is a
76. gn Softee a Me ai Bispak G gre pkpi giai yaa parbareee fe sirare pecerererdied het pu e al iien eee ee Hen aiba jaape nieve Beag md ban chore sp ee poa faerie i eeek prela bree pice WHE Tei poga a pact bp copag i ad nimnemmal besar p eror or deire ee of hr pee Bami pepieren eai Liara Akara Siba posecoteed be ihe mania adaa pole iada Lee Card Software User Manual 19 The license Agreement screen appears if you agree with the license terms confirm with Yes Setup prompts you with the Setup Installation Type Choose Net License Installation and click Next ii aiiis ia Mella aT ppr Themi Saip aadar Tipe Picara aish rata eoo oe e _ Prim the nisaton for aHa Lice ern of he rta Pou rent bru a Min Loera rrisni an LANI l moal ena etek are Leren Era ie A Use the Browse button to specify the full path for the Master Installation Please remember this important notes The drive mapping must be permanent Reconnect at Logon You cannot change the drive letter This Network License always needs to know the Path to the Master Installation You cannot execute this Network Version when the Master Computer is turned off Click Next Card Software User Manual GT Toa Cail Sollee eked Lovell ee Setup prompts you with the default installation path Confirm or change the Card Software directory Click Next Setup prompts you with the defaul
77. hapter 126 Working with NS Database Interface After connecting successfully to a database the selected table is displayed in a split window next to the card design area To access the record information of a column you have to create Card Software objects and connect them with the database fields Card Software User Manual How to link database fields with the card layout Linking a Text Object 1 Open a text object and select ODBC Source as Variable Source 2 The Source ODBC Source Selection dialog box appears Select the column which contains the records you want to appear in your text object and click Finish Pho aid FeC_OOUNE 3 Edit the font properties you want and confirm clicking OK 4 In the card work area resize if necessary the selection rectangle of the text box in a way that makes the largest record of your column fit inside Card Software User Manual 127 5 Save your card layout Your card and the database are connected Whenever you ll open your card the database automatically will be found and opened as well Note The selection rectangle of the text box remains always visible to indicate the database connection but won t be printed Linking an Image Object There are two forms image information is stored in a database Either the image is part of the database itself stored in an image field ODBC point to image field or the complete path directory of an image fiel
78. he Select Directory button and browse to the database you want to connect 7 For more information on Options gt gt see Microsoft documentation MDEC Hiciszak F Card Software User Manual 113 114 8 Click OK to confirm all settings and end your ODBC session clicking the OK button in the ODBC Data Source Administrator dialog box You are back to the ODBC Source Selection dialog box How to Select the MS Excel data source 1 Click the refresh button in the ODBC Source Selection dialog box Browse through the available data source listing until you find the name of the data source for example Distributors List you just defined and click the Next button a Ewes Ha 2 The Select table dialog box appears Select the table you want to work with and click Finish The database view appears in a split window next to the card view Use the database toolbar to navigate add new modify or delete records see section The Card Software Database Functions later in this chapter Card Software User Manual Setup MS FoxPro Data Source How to setup a MS FoxPro data source 1 From the database menu click Connect The ODBC Source Selection dialog box opens Click the ODBC Manager button The Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator dialog box opens ca iera spall asp lems om Aenea E mpi rots oa ie tt 2 Click the Add button to setup a new data source The Create New
79. he cols section The Card Software allows you to print several cards by page when using paper for that select the number of rows to print max 5 Printing Cards Printing cards with the Card Software is easy It s the final step after the card design process To print cards 1 From the File menu choose Card Print the Card Print dialog box appears 2 Select the Destination corresponding to the installed card printer Use the properties button to change the selected printer configuration Destination may be specific printers any printer through Windows driver or the print manager printing to a batch file Card Software User Manual 205 206 3 Inthe Operation section select the operation s to perform when printing Print will print a card containing all the objects you placed on the card Encode will write data to the magnetic stripe on the card see Chapter 22 Appendix B Magnetic Encoding Chip Card Processing will call an external chip card processing application see Chapter 9 Chip Card Hologram will print a hologram on your cards Contact your ribbon supplier to inform you about hologram ribbons If you use a Privilege 400 or greater card printer check both Print Front and Print Back to print both sides of the card in one passage Select Rotate 180 Degrees if you want the card to be printed upside down this options is available for each card layer separately This feat
80. he data type integer number builds a single lined field which may contain any value between 2 147 483 648 and 2 147 483 647 Memo The data type Memo builds a multi line field for text editing Photo The data type Photo builds a field which allows the storage of an image 98 Data Source Introduction Before you can access data with an ODBC driver you must add a data source for it You can change or delete a data source at any time A data source contains the information which ODBC driver is to be used including driver specific setup and the indication where to find the database itself See section External Database later in this chapter to learn how to work with data sources Card Software User Manual Card Software Internal Database Create a New Internal Database Creating an internal Card Software Database Advanced Feature 1 From the Database menu choose Connect The ODBC Source Selection dialog box appears Select Create Data base Franca a _ ns ae aos e j U 2 The Create Database dialog box appears Type the data base name for example CAMPANY and click Create C Dw j o 3 Select the Database you just created and click Next The list of the available tables appears and prompts you to select the table you want to work with As there is no table available yet you have to create it by clicking New Table Card Software User Manual 99 100 4 The Database Table S
81. he manufacturer and the next five digits contain a unique product number This 10 digit code is preceded by a number system digit and followed by a check digit based on the preceding 11 digits and used for error detection UPC E UPC E is also a numeric fixed length symbology but is limited to six digits versus the 12 digits of UPC A It is used where space is at a premium such as a small product label Telepen Telepen is an old numeric two part symbology used mainly in England Card Software User Manual 181 18 About PDF Symbols 182 About Two dimensional Bar Codes The typical bar codes we have been discussing in Chapter 20 Appendix D About Barcodes are one dimensional Since they have height and width you may wonder why they are called one dimensional It s because when they are read it is only the width of the bars and spaces that is taken into account The height of the bars is only to give the symbol some built in redundancy Typical bar code symbols therefore are only read in one dimension Another important aspect of one dimensional bar code symbols is that they seldom represent more than a dozen characters Therefore the bar code usually does not contain any data per se Rather the bar code most often represents the key to a record in a database where the related information is stored Two dimensional 2D bar code symbols surpass these two preclusions Data is encoded in both the heigh
82. hose areas of the card with no overlay will be shown an array of the letter N Card Software User Manual 87 88 Overlay area E No Overlay area 7 Click OK You have defined the overlay 8 You can change the position or resize the overlay on the card To Resize the overlay it must be selected then drag the two head arrow anywhere in the card To Move the overlay it must be selected then drag the four head arrow any where in the card Important Because the overlay is used to protect the printed information overlay should not be applied to card areas con taining the magnetic stripe smart chips or barcodes Parts of Card Objects which reach into User Selected Area Without Overlay or Predefined Selected Area Without Overlay are not printed Areas without overlay appear white Printing Overlay with Memory Extension The printable area without Memory Extension ME does not cover all the card surface only with ME the printable area is extended to the edge of the card and the whole card can be printed with overlay Important You may not delete the overlay Item List from the Edit menu If you want to print without overlay choose the Overlay Clipping Option from the Options Menu and enable the option No Overlay It is not allowed to send the object overlay to the other layer To print both sides of the card with overlay you need to choose the option Overlay Clipping from the Options Menu for both sides Wi
83. i o 3 RC 2655 Ericeira Portugal Phone 351 61 860 450 Fax 351 61 865 647 E mail info nfive com Technical Support support nfive com Sales sales nfive com Adm Services admin nfive com Internet www nfive com Card Software User Manual Contents 1 Copyright amp License Agreement sscccssssccessccsescesesees 13 Copyright Notice viss ssceidccisscssssessieciacssssesdenessessasesdaatians saseatevessessizess 13 End User License Agreement sccesescesceesceseeseeesceseeeeceseeessenseess 13 2 Getting Started sccscvescisessscasinssisaigssvensssnsnsisnnesgvsonsnavestyensenies 16 System Requirements j ccs sscssscssessssesesssesseavassesddesessscbssassesnsessesshnastvensse s 16 Jostal latho orere irrin E EE EREKE EEEE EN EEE ENRE EY 16 Running Setup on Windows 95 osesesssesesseseeesserereereresreerseresesreseees 16 Running Setup on Windows NT 4 0 17 Normal Master Installation seeeseeeeeeseeeeeseseesseseesrsesserrssrsrsrrererrereerereee 17 Setup INSUCHONS sieisen toari e NEEE EE ARE E E REE 17 Net License Installation 5 s ssssessssasessescsassveseacadacbuscs odsvsisesessessasieuseass 19 Setup INSTTUCTIONS voceiro ive Nl ae Ne ie ee Rese hE 19 Setup Options ss csssecesssshisses sees sl A SH a acest 22 Starting Quitting the Card Software oo cece csesecseeesecnecnseeneensees 24 STATING E E E oreceeneeeet 25 Starting Windows with the Card Software secese 25 OUTING EEIE casiceasee adapta ide E
84. ices and applications While participation was active it was difficult to resolve issues and progress was slow At one of the Roundtable s last meetings in 1990 it was suggested that a small group of industry leaders form a consortium and create a specification for review revision and ultimate adoption by the imaging industry The Twain consortium was formed soon after that from representatives of Aldus Caere Eastman Kodak Hewlett Packard and Logitech The goals of this smaller workgroup were to resolve technical and marketing issues of the open interface as quickly as possible and then to circulate the specification among the developer community for review and feedback The group was designed to be as small as possible so the specification could be written quickly while maintaining representation from a wide spectrum of application developers desktop communications and OCR and hardware vendors hand held scanners desktop scanners and high end color scanners Working group members represented diversity in the industry and brought in depth imaging experience to both the hardware and software development and marketing fields Card Software User Manual A key requirement of participation was that companies in the working group have been willing to represent an interest passing the elementary interest of each company The primary goal of this effort was to raise the awareness of a new end user base through an ea
85. ick OK ith faeces ofl a me if fi ie Tada ieee ei Crei 6 Click the OK button to confirm all settings Card Software User Manual Chip Card Encoding The chip card encoding process 1 From the File menu choose Card Print The Card Print Dialog Box appears see Chapter 21 Appendix A Printing amp Ribbon Select in the operation section the Chip Card Processing check box Click OK to start the chip card encoding process Note You can also select Print and Encode in the operation section The operation sequence is set as first chip card encoding second magnetic encoding and third print 2 Depending on your setting of the runtime options either the Chip Card Process dialog box appears or the Card Software waits for a return file see setting the chip card properties Card Software User Manual 93 10 Card Software and Database This section explains how to work with the Card Software and databases Learn how to create your own database from within the Card Software and how to connect to an external database using ODBC drivers Introduction to ODBC ODBC Basics The Card Software accesses databases through ODBC drivers using SQL language The Open Database Connectivity ODBC interface allows accessing data in Database Management Systems DBMS using Structured Query Language SQL as a standard for accessing data ODBC allows different database technologies to be used by defi
86. ield Point to Image Field links to an image which is stored in a related database image field Video for Windows Acquires an image using the VfW interface see later in this chapter Image Transfer with Video for Windows VfW Advanced Feature VfW is the latest standard for image acquisition an evolution of the older MCI concept Camcorders or VCRs produce an analog image dataflux which is transferred as analog signal from the camera to the capture card and from here to the video card using the PCI bus Your operating system must support directX image information crosses directly to the capture card and direct Draw image information is directly displayed on Card Software User Manual 149 screen The image information is transformed intodigital data at freeze time when captured Digital cameras store images on a floppy disk as digital information which can be transferred to the PC using the serial port and a proper application or the Twain interface Some digital cameras allow also the use of a video capture board e g Canon Ion or Canon Powershot or the use of a proper video capture board Capturing Images Using the TWAIN interface Twain is an industry standard protocol for exchanging information between application software like this Card Software and image capture devices such as scanners or camcorders After installing a TWAIN driver you must define which TWAIN driver the Card Software shall use
87. ield then becomes the target for the data when you print the card This eliminates the need to manually edit the card to enter each piece of data before printing You can use the same card format knowing that your card design will remain constant with only the variable data changing from card to card The Variable Sources Global Counter An integer counter that starts at a number that you choose and each time you print a card is increased by the value of a second number that you choose Card Software User Manual bamer kiba lade Herir Printer Counter An integer counter that starts at 1 and is increased by 1 each time you print a card Tource Crit Commie a im m Keyboard Input Data that you type from the computer system s keyboard Date Time The Date Time kept by your computer system Card Software User Manual 75 Image Sources File Choose Image At print time the Card Software will prompt you to select the name of an image file Scan Image An image acquired from any twain compliant source at print time See Chapter 12 Image acquisition hae bnar Hi eet Th Concatenation Data that result from the concatenation of two or more sources In the Prefix Separator and Suffix boxes you can edit constant data To achieve 76 Card Software User Manual CT zS eee eee ae irii iasi ai Ed Tareas MCI An image acquired from MCI compliant source see Chapt
88. iew for tabel listing Batch Printing from file VfW video source supported Multistation Supports multistation printers Card Software User Manual
89. ill be erased The database file must be shareable between different users may not be exclusive read only etc Prepare Workstations On the first workstation prepare all settings to edit the database Card Software User Manual 141 142 you have prepared in step 1 In the second workstation create the card layout and link it to the database as explained earlier in this chapter Make sure the Allow data edition check box in the database interface properties dialog box is enabled Make sure the right printer ribbon settings are defined see chapter 22 Appendix A Printing and Ribbon Save the card document Start Auto Print 1 From the database menu select Auto Print The Auto Print Configuration dialog box appears ee ne So j mti Eren nten kami al a pried iad al an rot preted Cancel 2 Define the Print Control Field From the scroll down menu select the control field you defined before in step 1 If the print control field is text type it s data will be replaced by k if the print process was performed correctly otherwise by E If the print control field is numeric type it s data will be replaced by 1 if the print process was performed correctly otherwise by 9 3 Define a Guide field Choose a field which identifies best each card record like a field which includes a name id number or similar Besides the print date and time its contents is displayed in the Aut
90. ing hardware and software manufacturers and eliminates the need to close the application software in order to scan an image Goals of Twain The primary purpose of Twain is to solve the need for consistent easy integration of sophisticated input devices and the information they generate for use in any Twain compliant software The Twain Process The Old Way In the past the process for scanning images into an application was to 1 Create a document in an application 2 Close the application 3 Open the scanning software 4 Scan the image 5 Save the image to a file 6 Close the scanning software 7 Open the document application again 8 Find the scanned image file 9 Import the image file an gt Place and size the image in the document Card Software User Manual 185 The Twain Way With Twain hardware and software the process is to 1 Create a document in an application 2 Select Acquire from the document application s File menu 3 Click final scan from the Twain source 4 Place and size the image Obviously the process of acquiring images has been greatly simplified History of the Twain Consortium In early 1990 a substantial number of industry representatives joined the Macintosh Scanner Roundtable which was formed by Dave Nelson of Nuvo Labs This group broadened industry awareness of the need for an open interface and defined technical issues for the integration of raster bitmap dev
91. inue dragging until the rectangle is the desired size 4 Release the mouse button The rectangle appears on the card Adding Text Toadd text 1 On the drawing toolbar click the Text tool the pointer changes to a hand with the Text icon 2 Move the pointer to the point on the card where you want to place a corner 3 Press and hold the left mouse button and drag in any direction As you drag a rectangle forms with one corner fixed where you began to drag and the other corner following the pointer Continue dragging until the rectangle is the desired size 4 Release the mouse button The Text Properties dialog box appears 5 Type some text into the box for example Card Software 6 Click OK to complete the action Card Software User Manual 41 Adding an Image To add an Image to the card 1 On the Drawing toolbar click the Image tool the pointer changes to a hand with the Image icon 2 Move the pointer to the point on the card where you want to place the upper left corner of the image 3 Press and hold the left mouse button and drag in any direction As you drag a rectangle forms with one corner fixed where you began to drag and the other corner following the pointer Continue dragging until the rectangle is the desired size 4 Release the mouse button The Image Properties dialog box appears Image Object None Image Width Image Height ja z millimeters fo 4 millimeters
92. irective 91 250 EEC as well as other intellectual property laws and treaties The SOFTWARE PRODUCT is licensed not sold 1 GRANT OF LICENSE This EULA grants you the following rights Software You may install and use one copy of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT or on its place any prior version for the same operating system on a single computer Card Software User Manual 13 Storage Network Use You may also store or install a copy of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT on a storage device such as a network server used only to install or run the SOFTWARE PRODUCT on your other computers over an internal network however you must acquire and dedicate a license for each separate computer on which the SOFTWARE PRODUCT is installed or run from a storage device 2 DESCRIPTION OF OTHER RIGHTS AND LIMITATIONS Limitations on Reverse Engineering Decompilation and Disassambly You may not reverse engineer decompile or disassamble the SOFTWARE PRODUCT except and only to the extent that such activity is expressly permitted applicable law notwithstanding this limitations Rental You may not rent or lease the SOFTWARE PRODUCT Software Transfer You may permanently transfer all of your rights under this EULA provided you retain no copies you transfer all of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT including all component parts the media printed materials and any upgrades and the recipient agrees to the terms of this EULA If the SOFTWARE PRODUCT is an upgrade any transf
93. isplays the Input Values dialog box Enter the desired value then click OK Card Software User Manual Kodalith EG Exit Menu Exit Closes the Image Tools dialog box saving all settings made Cancel Menu Cancel Closes the Image Tools dialog box not saving any settings made Image Tools Toolbar Gives you fast access to the main image tools commands Arrow Deselects Zoom and Crop tool Select The mousepointer changes to a fine cross Define the area you want to crop by dragging and resizing the selection rectangle Zoom Select this tool to zoom in by leftclicking or out by rightclicking Undo Reverses the last command performed and returns the image to its previous state Brightness and Contrast Fast access to adjust image colors as described above Card Software User Manual 65 Bar Code Properties ie Ete Ore E ife oi a mieten F Prep Emi Fei rE P Chek Bgl j F ie Dae a Hertel ey a r papm P vasija r p P des Bar code properties are Style Select the type of bar code you wish to print Data Type the data you want to appear in the bar code Ensure the data is valid for the selected bar code style Ratio Select the desired bar code ratio Rotation You can rotate the bar code from the default horizontal orientation Select a rotation value of 90 180 or 270 degrees Rotation is measured clockwise from horizontal Print in Black Panel If you want the bar code to be printed with
94. iting Database sineera ata eae eas 133 QUICK Editing re east hehe cds cata Seal aia iani 133 Moving between Records c ccccceceeseeeseeeeeensenseeseseenecnseenecnaenaes 134 The Find FUnction ccsccccsscsscesssssssccesscescevsccencesusesenceeeaeesnsceeeeeees 135 TNE Query FUNCHON ir cei as cctus ie E teeta ages 136 Database Interface Properties oone 137 Datab se View nsise eenen oee e eeo eens eee EES 138 Database Image Properties sooseseeseeseneeeneereerrrresrrrerrrreee 139 The Card Software Database Reports ssseesesesseseseesserrersrrsrsrrereresseerese 139 Create Database Report oosssosssesseeeeesereersesrressrerreresrsreeresrees 139 Open a Database Report cccscesccsscesecesceseeseceseeseceseeseeeseeeeeeneees 141 The Auto Print Function eee cesses ceeeeeeceeeseeseneeeeecseesaecneesaesaes 141 Preparing the Card Software for Auto Print ossessi 141 11 Photo in PDF Symbol csscccsssccssssccssssscsssscssssscssssceees 144 Photo Encoding oirean cachet E E E E 144 Photo Reader ooien ae E E EE ERES 145 Setting up the Photo Reader o oo 145 REGAINS A PROLOG ronen eiaeia ee aea AS RETER 147 Timtitatl ONS innne E E E AE E E SE REEERE 147 12 Image Acquisition osesesseeeosseosssseeeeesesesesssecsssseosssseesee 149 NMA SE SOULCES sss ce Sebaes se svssees cy de eb E E E E EEN 149 Image Transfer with Video for Windows VEW cesceeeceesesseeeeeeees 149 Capturing IMAGES iise eneret e na E E E S 1
95. le including drive letter server name folder path and filename can contain up to 255 characters Filenames cannot include any of the following characters forward slash backslash greater than sign gt less than sign lt asterisk question mark quotation mark pipe symbol I colon or semicolon Displaying Card Information You can display information about the current card From the View menu choose Card Info The Full Card Document Information box appears This selection displays the name of the person who was the last to work with the card and the last save and print dates Card Software User Manual mimi eaten dee a ed Laat ed i ll imada e weed Lier piai Bye Laa p Ca iis prima pirm Pall cone be hea Dhe mibi miiy od To see more technical detail about the card click Tech Details The Card Draw Technical Information dialog box appears When finished viewing click OK Card Size 65 3445283 Milimeters Card Page Size 65 344 52 83 Milimeters Card Page Offset 0 00 x 0 00 Milimeters Corner Ratio fF 36 x 6 36 Millimeters Number of Card Items Creating a Basic Card This section explains the processes involved in creating a basic card using a few of the most common tools Card Setup A card can be created in either portrait print across the narrow side of the card or landscape print across the wide side of the card
96. le name e g Clients_Hardware You may not use the space character do separate words as it provokes a syntax error in the create table statement 4 Define the columns For each column you want to create provide column name e g Name Idnumber and Photo or use the default name Field1 Field2 Field3 5 Select column data type see section Card Software internal database data type earlier in this chapter and length if necessary 102 Card Software User Manual 6 Provide the type of Index you want to apply to the column An index is used to control data storage and queries in a column Choose between None in this case no indexing occurs Unique indexed each record must contain unique data used to set a primary key or Duplicate indexed but allows equal data speeds up queries Note The field RECORD_NR is automatically created and indexed as unique to provide at least one column where data differs in all records primary key This is to avoid affection on multiple records at delete or edit operations You may delete this column but you should provide at least one column indexed as unique 7 Remove a column choose this options if you want to remove a column from your table Ture od Leng rede pee n SECORD UR LO t Lra Uya HA Pil Hone n rhe oAULSELE Home De UiA i tion Fresh Com tee 8 Create your table by clicking Finish The Select Table dialog box appears Your table named Clients is high
97. lied to the entire surface of the card except to the area you define Bitmap Based Overlay In the Choose bitmap for Overlay list box you select or browse a bitmap file on disk to use as the overlay Tip the bitmap should be monochrome e g black amp white where white defines areas with overlay varnish The size of the bitmap should be the same as the card size 85 34mm 52 83mm to achieve varnish coverage over the whole card Anyway the Card Software automatically transforms 2 colored bitmap to black amp white and adjust it to the right size This may cause some distortion Predefined Selected Area Without Overlay This overlay varnish is automatically selected if you choose one of the following predefined area selections Smart Card ISO Smart Card AFNOR Magnetic Stripe 5 Define the position and size of the overlay or the ex cluded area Type the x and y coordinate values in the X Placement and Y Placement boxes These numbers indi cate the coordinates of the upper left corner of the over lay area The origin 0 0 point is the upper left corner of the card The x and y coordinates are measured from the origin The Width and Height numbers indicate the size of the overlay or the excluded area 6 If you wish to see the overlay area depicted on the card select the Preview on Screen check box bitmap based overlay has no preview Those areas of the card with an overlay will be shown with an array of the letter O T
98. lighted Choose it by clicking Finish Card Software User Manual 103 9 The database view appears in a split window next to the card view Use the database toolbar to navigate add new modify or delete records see as explained later in this chapter section The Card Software Database Functions Edit an existing Table Edita table 1 After connecting successfully to an internal Card Software database the select table dialog box appears Select the table you want to change 104 Card Software User Manual 2 Click Modify The Database Table Structure dialog box appears balghae able Sirhan 3 Add and Remove Columns as explained in the section Create a New Table earlier in this chapter Card Software User Manual 105 Remove a Table Remove a table 1 After connecting successfully to an internal Card Soft ware database the select table dialog box appears Select the table you want to remove Gevmbebie te am bee bE 2 Select the table you want to remove and click Remove The Card Software prompts you with a warning message If you really want to remove permanently the table you selected confirm by clicking Yes Connect to an External Database ODBC Source Selection Before you can connect to a database you must define a data source first as explained earlier in this chapter in section Data Source When you connect to a database for the first time you will find default da
99. m intensity color or monochrome dot Warning High color intensity setting may cause ribbon rupture Color Contrast Sets the values of yellow magenta and cyan and dye diffusion to adjust the amount of heat applied to transfer a maximum intensity color contrast Contrast Sets the values of overlay black and hologram to adjust the amount of heat applied to transfer a maximum contrast Warning Do not change the default values without consulting your Privilege card printer manual first Use the Default button to reset the settings in this tab to the original values Card Software User Manual 199 200 Printer Click the Printer tab to configure the printer port and the printer capabilities Emi Biter Eecring Fool Seeley ere Tiai D mros kmo oo E ET CASN a Ege Ecci F hra a E ii Select the printer port to which you connected your printer usually LPT1 Use the Handshake button to recognise the printer capabili ties directly only available when the Direct Print options is checked Or if you know the printer capabilities check them manually The printer capabilities are listed below Extended Memory It s an hardware option There are two main advantages with this option speed on printing process and ability to cards edge to edge Print Both Sides ability to print both sides of the card Only available for P400 or greater Chip Card Processing allows to plug in an ex
100. mployed Three different start characters tell the scanner which of the character sets is initially being used and three shift codes permit changing character sets inside a symbol Every Code 128 symbol ends with a check character EAN EAN European Article Numbering is a numeric fixed length continuous symbology that is a superset of the UPC bar code used in the USA There are two versions of EAN 8 and 13 characters similar to UPC E and UPC A respectively EAN 13 adds a country code to UPC A resulting in a 13 digit number EAN 8 has two digit country codes five digit data codes identifying the product and the manufacturer and a one digit check character EAN 128 EAN 128 is a variable length alphanumeric continuous multiple element width high density symbology It is a variation of Code 128 and exclusively reserved to EAN International and the Uniform Code Council UCC It is not intended to be used for data to be scanned at the point of sale in retail outlets The encoded data contains an Application Identifier AD which is a prefix code used to identify the meaning and the format of the data that follows it data field There are Als for identification tractability dates quantity measurements locations and many other types of information For example the AI for batch number is 10 and the batch number AI is always followed by an alphanumeric batch code not to exceed 20 characters The EAN Application Identifiers
101. mpression Colored images are converted to grayscale The maximum size of an image which still can be encoded is 80 x 80 pixels If the height or width of an image is larger than Card Software User Manual 147 80 pixels its size will be recalculated to this value maintaining the image s proportions The Card Software uses the JPEG logarithm one of the most powerful data compression formats to reduce image size to make it still encodable Use uniforme highly contrasted backgrounds when acquiring an image Try to reduce the image size to a still acceptable minimum 148 Card Software User Manual 12 Image Acquisition Besides opening images from a file the Card Software allows direct image acquisition in three ways using the TWAIN interface the VfW Video for Windows interface or the serial port combined with a proper application The Card Software supports the use of any camcorder and VCR with video output as well as digital cameras to acquire images Image Sources Open from file Allows to browse to an image file and open it Open from File at Print Time Allows to browse to an image file and open it at print time Scan Scans a new image using a defined Twain driver Scan at Print Time Scans a new image using a defined Twain driver at print time Paste Pastes an image from the Windows clipboard Point to Image File links to an image which location path is stored in a related database f
102. n the Card Work Area You edit text only by displaying it in the Text Properties dialog box Note In the following sections when the manual refers to editing text it means adding replacing deleting or otherwise changing the text box content not the text attributes Card Software User Manual Edit text m Right click the text object you wish to edit The Text Properties dialog box appears 3 Using the techniques listed below select the text you want to edit 4 Perform the desired alterations 5 Click OK r Select text using the mouse 1 Point where you want the selection to begin and then drag over the text 2 To select a single word double click the word Select text using keyboard shortcuts For keyboard enthusiasts selecting text using the keyboard is often faster than using the mouse To select Press One character right SHIFT RIGHT ARROW One character left SHIFT LEFT ARROW To end of word CTRL SHIFT RIGHT ARROW To start of word CTRL SHIFT LEFT ARROW One line up SHIFT UP ARROW One line down SHIFT DOWN ARROW Deleting Text Delete a character 1 Position the pointer after the character you want to delete click and then press BACKSPACE Card Software User Manual 61 62 To delete a block of text 1 Drag across the text to highlight it and then press BACKSPACE or DELETE Cutting Copying and Pasting Text Cut or copy and paste a block of text 1 Drag the text
103. nd browse to the database you want to connect 7 For more information on Options gt gt see Microsoft documentation ODBC Paradox Setup Entry date salary history and current review of Paradox 5 x ee r Card Software User Manual 8 Click OK to confirm all settings and end your ODBC session clicking the OK button in the ODBC Data Source Administrator dialog box You are back to the ODBC Source Selection dialog box How to Select the MS Paradox data source 1 Click the Refresh button in the ODBC Source Selection dialog box Browse through the available data source listing until you find the name of the data source for example Members List you just defined and click the Next button 2 The Select table dialog box appears Select the table you want to work with and click finish The database view appears in a split window next to the card view Use the database toolbar to navigate add new modify or delete records see section The Card Software Database Functions later in this chapter Setup MS Text Data Source Text files asc csv tab or txt are ASCII text files with data sets in individual lines and fields seperated by comma tab or custom delimiters These files can be created by word processor database text editor and other applications Card Software User Manual 119 Before connecting the card layout with a text file you need to establish a connection between the Card Softw
104. nd type of characters allowed on each of the three tracks Card Software User Manual 1 79 alphanumeric ASCII codes 32 95 2 40 numeric ASCII codes 48 63 Z ee Ed 3 107 numeric ASCII codes 48 63 Field separator is Encoding a Magnetic Stripe There are three ways to use the Card Software to encode a magnetic stripe 1 To encode a small number of cards choose Printer Setup from the File Menu the Printer Setup dialog box appears Select the specific printer name for your printer and click Properties The selected printer properties dialog box appears Click the tab Encoding For each card you must manually type in the information you want to be encoded on each track It is not very efficient but is okay for a few cards Also you can use this method to erase the magnetic information from a card or to re encode a card with the same or different data 2 To encode more than a few cards use the Magnetic Encoder Tool on the lower tool bar This more efficient method uses variable data fields in the same way you used them to print variable bar codes and is preferred when printing imported data 3 To encode using a Windows Printer Driver you will need to configure the magnetic encoding Important When using either encoding method ensure that the magnetic stripe cards are properly oriented in the card feeder Typically the magnetic stripe is oriented on the bottom of the card and toward the back of the printer Refer to th
105. need to tell to the Card Software which object you want to work with To do this you must select it To select one object 1 Touch a visible part of the object with the mouse pointer and then click You select an object ina stack in the same way 2 Once it s selected you re free to rotate it change its size or color or move it to another location To select multiple objects 1 Hold down the SHIFT key and click each object you want to select or 2 Move the pointer outside of the objects you want to select 3 Press and hold the left mouse button and drag in any direction As you drag a rectangle forms with one corner fixed where you began to drag and the other corner following the pointer Continue dragging until the rectangle encloses all the objects you want to select 4 Release the browse button The objects enclosed by the rectangle are selected To select all objects 1 From the Edit menu choose All or press CTRL A To deselect objects 1 Click anywhere outside the object s or press Esc Tip An object will be selected automatically if you right click the object to edit its properties Card Software User Manual 49 Resizing Objects You can change the size of an object by dragging one of the sizing handles that surround a selected object Tip If you want to resize an object except a bar code by an exact amount or to a specific size use the object s property di
106. ng Conia Hami Samara Fer i ik F HiHoigpan Ihaia Card Software User Manual 211 22 Appendix B Magnetic Encoding If your printer is equipped with a magnetic stripe encoder you can encode data onto cards that have an embedded magnetic stripe About Magnetic Stripe There are two kinds of magnetic stripe cards low coercivity and high coercivity Coercivity is the measurement of a magnetic material s resistance to being magnetized Low coercivity material magnetizes easier than high coercivity material A magnetic stripe encoder is designed to be used with one type of cards only either high or low coercivity Caution High and low coercivity cards are not interchangeable Refer to the printer manual to ensure that you have the correct type of card for your model printer There are three magnetic tracks on a magnetic stripe card To comply with international standards each track is limited to a certain number and type of character In addition to the user data three format characters are added automatically by the printer The data on each track is preceded by a Start Sentinel then followed by a Stop Sentinel and Longitudinal Redundancy Check LRC character Important Although the printer automatically inserts these three format characters at print time you must include them in your character count to stay within the allowable character limit for each track The following table lists the number a
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108. ning a standard interface File Formats To access any database format from the Card Software you will need the ODBC driver for that standard The default drivers which come with the Card Software CD ROM supply the most common formats Microsoft Access Driver MDB Microsoft dBase Driver DBF Microsoft Excel Driver XLS Microsoft FoxPro Driver DBF Microsoft Paradox Driver DB Microsoft Text Files Driver TXT CSV Microsoft Visual FoxPro Driver SQL Server Card Software User Manual Note You can add anytime your specific drivers to meet your needs Just as an example you can add drivers to access AS400 files directly from the Card Software Purpose of ODBC ODBC was created as a way of setting a standard to access data on files Using concepts like layers and layer abstraction it allows the user to access data on his hard disk in a local network or even in a Wide Area Network using desktop or server client specifications in any database format that have available ODBC driver Desktop versus Server Client Desktop file access means that the file is accessed opening it as a disk file in the local hard disk or even in a local network Server Client supposes that somewhere a DBMS server is running The local machine sends requests to the server resulting in data available to the client The Card Software does the access to both types in an easy and similar way One difference will be that ina DBMS Server
109. ntelligent card Memory Card Can store a certain amount of data which can be subsequently altered but not adequately secured Intelligent Card Better known as smart card the intelligent card has like a PC a memory a central processing unit and acommunications unit As the smart card can carry out calculations it makes it easy to implement effective security features The chip has three types of memory ROM EEPROM and RAM ROM contains fixed information which remains at all times and cannot be changed EEPROM can be changed and remains in the chip even when no electrical power is flowing through the chip RAM temporary memory which can be changed but disappears when no electrical power is flowing through the card 90 Chip Card Pro cess The Card Software allows to plug in an executable file during the printing process The Card Software will call an external chip card processing software To run this software you have to provide the necessary parameters in the Chip Card Properties dialog box At print time the Card Software will position the card on the chip interface of your Privilege printer and call the external software Card Software User Manual The Card Software continues the print process either on user command or after receiving a return file OK message see setting the chip card properties Chip Card Properties Setting the chip card properties 1 At the Drawing Toolbar click the Chip
110. o Print dialog box helping you to control the print process 4 Set the Poll Delay This value indicates the time in seconds the Card Software will wait before refreshing the database table After refreshing the table all cards Card Software User Manual records which were not printed yet are sent to the printer 5 10 11 Create Icon on Desktop and Start when opened Pressing the Create Icon button will create an icon with a shortcut to the Auto Print card document at your desktop If the start when opened check box is enabled the Auto Print process starts performing immediately If you want to apply a filter to the database click the Query Filter button see earlier in this chapter Mark all as printed not printed These buttons allow to change the information of the complete record set to printed not printed status OK Cancel The OK button saves the Auto Print settings and closes the Auto Print Configuration dialog box Press Cancel to leave the Auto Print dialog box without saving any changes settings Start Auto Print The final step Click this button to perform Auto Print on workstation 2 The Auto Print dialog box appears i urre TEH JII T Cacia Stop Close Stops the Auto Print function and closes the Auto Print dialog box Save History Click this button if you want to save the information displayed in the Auto Print dialog box as txt file Card Software User Manual 143 11 Photo in PD
111. o can click the Move Next button at your database toolbar To move to the previous record select Move Previous from the database menu You also can click the Move Previous button at your database toolbar The Find Function Finding a record 1 From the Database Menu select Find Record You also can click the Find button at your database toolbar The Find in Field dialog box appears 2 Type the characters normally names or numbers you are looking for in the Containing box select the corresponding field in the In Field box and click Find Next Note Use the First Match Previous and Next buttons to the define the search direction The First Match button searches from the beginning of the table and finds the fist record that match the condition The Previous button searches from the current table position to the beginning of the table The Next button searches from the current table position to the end of the table Card Software User Manual 135 136 Note If you click the Match Case check box the Card Software will find only the exact match es of what you typed in the Find What box The Find Function is case sensitive 3 If no records match or the end of the database is reached the Card Software displays the message Card Software has finished searching the table No more records found The Query Function Working with Queries Filters 1 From the database Menu select Query You also can click the Que
112. oding or chip card processing you have to set these options before you proceed with step 3 Card Software User Manual 207 3 Click OK The Select Batch Print File dialog box appears 4 Select the file you want to append or create a new batch print file giving a new name 5 Click Open to complete the action The Batch Print Job List and Batch Print Preview windows open The Batch Print File Manager To print cards 1 From the File menu choose Batch File Manager The Select Batch Print File dialog box appears Select the name of the document you want to open and click OK The Batch Print Job List and Batch Print Preview windows appear Note The Batch Print Job List contains card documents car itself and the multiple cards inside each card document 208 Card Software User Manual E aiala ajes ad Oo T auja Sizi aial j 2 Browse through the Batch Print Job list using the Move buttons at your Batch Print Toolbar You can also use the up and down arrows of your keyboard 3 You can control the card design and its variable fields in case your card document contains multiple cards in the Batch Print Preview window To toggle between both sides of the card click the Front Back View button 4 Select the card document you want to print Click the Print button at your Batch Print Toolbar Tip If the selected card document contains multiple cards you can print one specific card by selecting it instead of th
113. ompting you to enter data to the employee s ID number Note repeat step 11 and 12 as many times as needed to print any number of cards with a different PDF Symbol on each card Card Software User Manual 85 8 Overlay An overlay or varnish layer is a thin transparent coating applied to a card to protect the underlying printed information from wear You can include a bitmap pattern in the overlay as a security measure creating a hologram effect 86 Defining an Overlay To define an overlay 1 From the Drawing Tools menu or Drawing Toolbar choose Overlay Clipping or 2 Click the right mouse button on a place not on an object The Shortcut menu appears Choose Overlay Clipping 3 The Overlay Properties dialog box appears tie Pere Bem Triin ee Pearse eg oll FL aL el Taar ae 1 kemeee Willems He eed Ei 7 T ee oe Bee Thee E i Can Ha m aj i As you define the overlay the Overlay Preview section will show the area of the card where the overlay will be applied 4 Inthe Choose Overlay list box select the desired overlay type Full Overlay the default The overlay varnish is applied over the entire surface of the card No Overlay No overlay varnish is applied to the card Card Software User Manual User Selected Area With Overlay The overlay varnish is applied only to the area you define User Selected Area Without Overlay The overlay varnish is app
114. on proprietary to N mero Cinco Software Ltd hereafter designated as Number 5 Software This document and the information contained within is copyrighted to Number 5 Software and may not be duplicated in full or part by any person without written approval from Number 5 Software While every effort has been made to keep this information contained within current and accurate as of the date of publication no guarantee is given or implied that the document is error free or that it is accurate with regard to any specification Number 5 Software reserves the right to make changes for the purpose of product improvement at any time End User License Agreement IMPORTANT READ CAREFULLY This Number 5 Software End User License Agreement EULA is a legal agreement between you either an individual or a single entity and Number 5 Software for the software product described in this user manual which includes computer software and associated media printed materials online and electronic documentation SOFTWARE PRODUCT or SOFTWARE By installing copying or otherwise using the SOFTWARE PRODUCT you agree to be bound by the terms of this EULA If you do not agree to the terms of this EULA promptly return the unused SOFTWARE PRODUCT to the place from which you obtained it for full refund SOFTWARE PRODUCT License The SOFTWARE PRODUCT is protected by copyright laws international copyright treaties and the European Community D
115. onal Settings from the Windows Control Panel and change the Decimal Symbol to be found in the number menu to a dot 2 Trying to edit a file from within the Card Software while file is open Returns Failed to make a SQL connection to file Setup MS Visual FoxPro Data Source How to setup a MS Visual FoxPro data source 1 From the database menu click Connect The ODBC Source Selection dialog box opens Click the ODBC Manager button The Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator dialog box opens aes GA specter PL SH OBC emn Tearing Atos arm T eral i bones a er arien Lid erf di laa A Am EPN Lipp ia eee cee ririn ae has by cre im femke Geter Le bra ce ond rba io p wd om be iHi m he coari raire 2 Click the Add button to setup a new data source The Create New Data Source dialog box appears Select Microsoft Visual FoxPro Driver and click Finish Card Software User Manual Create New Data Source Select a driver for which you want to set up a data source Microsoft Access Driver mdb 3 50 342800 Microsc Microsoft dBase Driver dbf 3 50 342800 Microsc Microsoft Excel Driver xIs 3 50 342800 Microsc Microsoft FoxPro Driver dbf 3 50 342800 Microsc Microsoft Paradox Driver db 3 50 342800 Microsc Microsoft Paradox Driver db 3 50 342800 Microsc Microsoft Text Driver txt csv 3 50 342800 Micros Microsoft Visual FoxPro Driver 5 00 00348 Microsc SQL Server 2 65 021
116. onnected Whenever yov ll open your card the database automatically will be found and opened as well Linking a Bar Code Object 1 Open an bar code object and select ODBC Source as Variable Source Card Software User Manual 129 Gobel Courter Ja Part Cosva i a 2 The Source ODBC Source Selection dialog box appears Select the column which contains the records you want to appear in your bar code object and click Finish 3 Set the Bar Code Object Properties you want to apply and confirm clicking OK 4 Inthe card work area if necessary you can resize the bar code with the mouse 5 Save your card layout Your card and the database are connected Whenever you ll open your card the database automatically will be found and opened as well 130 Card Software User Manual Linking a PDF Symbol Object 1 Open a PDF symbol object and select ODBC Source as Variable Source POF nambal bpest Liri n Seca 2 The Source ODBC Source Selection dialog box appears Select the column which contains the records you want to appear in your PDF symbol object and click Finish OCC Gow Selection Card Software User Manual 131 3 Set the PDF symbol Object Properties you want to apply and confirm clicking OK 4 Save your card layout Your card and the database are connected Whenever you ll open your card the database automatically will be found and opened as well Linking a Magnetic
117. ons are available for any access area File Menu open close cards exit program View Menu turn on off database window obtain printer info zoom in out view front back side Window Menu cascade tile arrange icons arrange card amp database window Help menu contents using help about the Card Software Administration permits to edit logins and passwords Design permits all card editing functions including magnetic encoding and chip card setting Card Document Printing permits to operate all print functions Modifying Defaults permits to set all default options ODBC Data Fields Edition permits to edit all databases accessible through database login and password Card Software User Manual 155 14 Menu Commands This section summarizes the commands available in the Card Software menus Depending on the Card Software version edition some menu items may be not available 156 Main Window The File Menu New Creates a new card file Open Opens an existing card file Close Closes the active card file Save Saves the card to a disk file Save As Saves the card with a name you specify to a disk file Card Setup Selects portrait or landscape orientation Card Print Displays the Card Print dialog box to print and or encode a magnetic stripe chip Printer Setup Displays the Printer Setup dialog box to specify a chosen printer Recently used File List Provides a means to qui
118. ool to zoom in by leftclicking or out by rightclicking Ey Undo Reverses the last command performed and returns the image to its previous state g Brightness and Contrast Fast access to adjust image colors Card Software User Manual 171 16 Keyboard Shortcuts This section lists the keyboard shortcuts available for many of the Card Software commands Shortcut Keys 172 Use the following key combinations to execute the command listed next to it When the keys are connected by a it means to press both keys at the same time General Ctrl F4 Close Closes the active Card Batch Print Window Ctrl F6 Next Moves to the next Card Batch Print Window Card Work Area Ctrl N New Creates a New card file Ctrl O Open Opens an existing card file Ctrl S Save Saves the card to a disk file Ctrl P Print Displays the card Print dialog box to print and or encode a magnetic strip chip card Ctrl X Cut Deletes the selected object and places it on the Clipboard so you can paste it elsewhere Ctrl C Copy Makes a copy to the selected object and places it on the Clipboard Ctrl V Paste Pastes the object from the Clipboard onto the card A copy of the pasted object remains on the Clipboard until it is replaced by another Cut or Copy command Del Delete Deletes the selected object completely without putting a copy on the Clipboard Ctrl A Select All Selects all the objects on the card
119. orientation The card defaults to landscape orientation To set the card orientation to portrait on the File Card Software User Manual 39 menu choose Card Setup In the Card Setup dialog box click Portrait The card orientation can be changed at any time Note For more information on card setup when working with a windows printer driver see Chapter 21 Appendix A Printing amp Ribbon Adding a Line To add a horizontal or vertical line 1 On the drawing toolbar click the Line tool the pointer changes to a hand with the Line icon 2 Move the pointer to the point on the card where you want to place one end of the line 3 Press and hold the left mouse button and drag in a horizontal or vertical direction As you drag a line is drawn with one end fixed where you began to drag and the other end following the pointer Continue dragging until the line is the desired length 4 Release the mouse button The line appears on the card Adding a Rectangle Toadd a rectangle a 1 On the drawing toolbar click the Rectangle tool the pointer changes to a hand with the Rectangle icon 2 Move the pointer to the point on the card where you want to place the upper left corner of the rectangle 40 Card Software User Manual 3 Press and hold the left mouse button and drag in any direction As you drag a rectangle forms with one corner fixed where you began to drag and the other corner following the pointer Cont
120. owing steps assume you want to create a variable barcode for the Employee s ID Number At print time you will type the employee s ID number on the keyboard so you set the Variable Source field to Keyboard Input Advanced Feature You could also create a database with all the information about the employee s and set the variable source field to ODBC Source See Chapter 10 Card Software and Database 1 On the lower toolbar click the Barcode tool the pointer changes to a hand with the Barcode icon 2 Move the mouse pointer to a place on the card where you want to place a corner of the barcode 3 Press and hold the left mouse button and drag in any direction As you drag a rectangle forms with one corner fixed where you began to drag the other corner follows the pointer Continue dragging until the rectangle is the desired size 4 Release the mouse button The Barcode Properties dialog box appears Card Software User Manual 81 5 Select a barcode Style from the list The Card Software defaults to Code 39 but you can choose from among the 20 styles listed See Chapter 17 About Bar Codes 6 Set the Variable Source as Keyboard Input The Source Keyboard Input Properties Dialog Box appears OEM ta AWG Fema hiiia Koprasi Vga 7 Type Employee s ID Number as default text on the Source Keyboard Input Properties Dialog box 8 Click OK to confirm and close the Source Keyboard Inp
121. ox framed by the sizing handles when an object is selected When you click an object to select it the selection rectangle appears Card Software User Manual 47 48 SELECTION RECTANGLE Picture An image from another application It can have some but not all of the attributes of an object created in the Card Software You can move and resize a picture and change its rotation Grid An invisible network of lines that covers the card As you draw objects their corners align on or snap to the nearest intersection of the grid if Snap to Grid is checked in the grid settings dialog box on the Options menu Although you can t see the grid lines the intersections of the lines appear as dots on your screen You can turn the grid on and off using the Show Grid command on the Options menu CTRL G Stacking Placing objects on top of one another Each object is separate from any other object as well as from the card background Although the objects seem to be drawn on a flat card it s helpful to think of objects as pieces of paper in a stack The object you draw first is on the bottom of the stack the most recently drawn object is added to the top of the stack The stacking order is important because the object on the top of the stack can cover those underneath it You can see this effect when you stack one filled rectangle on top of an other Card Software User Manual Selecting and Deselecting Objects You
122. plete 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 compression 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 compression algorithms may be used it is possible for different printed symbols to be created from the same input data The symbology also allows for varying degrees of data security or error correction and detection Nine different security levels are available with each higher level adding additional overhead to the printed symbol Using a higher level of security will give you a better chance to decode information in a damaged bar code The error correction capability uses built in error detection code words to reconstruct partially destroyed bar codes It works by checking the value of columns and rows and then calculating and rebuilding the data missing from any damaged cells Card Software User Manual 19 The Twain Interface This section explains the Twain interface Overview of Twain Twain is an industry standard protocol for ex changing information between application software like this Card Software and image capture devices such as scanners or video cameras It was developed by a coalition of imag
123. ppears 3 Choose the property you want to change 4 When you have finished with the property dialog box click OK or Cancel or press ESC Card Software User Manual 35 36 To display the Shortcut menu j Move the mouse pointer to a place not on an object 2 Click the right mouse button The Shortcut menu appears Select All Zoom In Zoom Out Show Grid Show Guidelines Dei Cecio 3 Choose the action you want to perform To display the Shortcut menu when you have multiple objects selected 1 Move the mouse pointer over the selection 2 Click the right mouse button The Shortcut menu appears Delete All Move To Front Move To Back Duplicate Selection 3 Choose the action you want to perform Shortcut Keys You can choose some commands by pressing the keyboard shortcut keys listed on the menu to the right of the command The Card Software uses many of the shortcut keys found in other Windows programs You find a list of shortcut keys in Chapter 16 Keyboard Shortcuts Card Software User Manual 4 Creating Cards This section explains the procedures for opening existing card files saving your work and creating the layout of a new card Opening and Saving Card Files You ll find that opening and saving your card files are pretty much the same as in other Windows programs Opening Card Files To create a new card at any time click the New button on
124. provide an Card Software User Manual open standard which can be used and understood by all companies in the trading chain regardless of the company that originally issued the codes EAN 128 offers several advantages It is one of the most complete alphanumeric one dimensional symbologies available today The use of three different character sets A B and C facilitates the encoding of the full 128 ASCII character set Code 128 is one of the most compact linear bar code symbologies Character set C enables numeric data to be represented in a double density mode In this mode two digits are represented by only one symbol character saving valuable space The code is concatenable That means that multiple Application Identifiers and their fields may be combined into a single bar code The code is also very reliable Code 128 symbols use two independent self checking features which improves printing and scanning reliability EAN 128 bar codes always contain a special non data character knownas function 1 FNC 1 which follows the start character of the bar code It enables scanners and processing software to automatically discriminate between EAN 128 and other bar code symbologies and subsequently only process relevant data The EAN 128 bar code is made up of a leading quiet zone a Code 128 start character A B or C an FNC 1 character Data Application Identifier plus data field a symbol check character a stop character and a t
125. r fixed where you began to drag and the other corner following the pointer Continue dragging until the rectangle is the desired size 4 Release the mouse button The Text Properties dialog box appears bim ee deed dele iesi Ymsi mae i Fs aes Fim Hae E iE De ted eas Hei ol T Mhp E er aan el Card Software User Manual 79 5 Set the Variable Source as Keyboard Input The Source Keyboard Input Properties Dialog Box appears Iera nopen Eepbsari Irys 6 Type Employee Name as default text on the Source Keyboard Input Properties Dialog box 7 Click OK to confirm and close the Source Keyboard Input Properties Dialog box 8 Click OK to confirm and close the Text Properties Dialog box 9 The text box you created on step 3 will appear on the on screen card with the words Employee Name inside This indicates that the text the employee s name will be provided at print time 10 On the Standard toolbar click the Printer Tool The Card Print dialog box appears See Chapter 21 Appendix A Printing amp Ribbons 11 Click OK The Text Input Dialog box appears prompting you to enter data for the employee s name 12 Enter the employee s name and confirm with OK Note Repeat step 10 to 12 as many times as needed to print any number of cards with a different name on each card 80 Card Software User Manual Variable Bar Code To add a variable bar code The foll
126. r Manual 189 Data Source Database Management Systems DBMS refer to the general features and functionality provided by an SQL database management system A Data Source is a specific instance a combination of a DBMS product and any remote operating system and network necessary to access it 190 Card Software User Manual 21 Appendix A Printing amp Ribbon This section explains how to setup your printer the setup for ribbon and the procedure to print your cards For specific information about your printer see the printer user manual Printer Setup Before you use a specific printer for the first time you must tell the program which printer port to use In most cases the default configuration makes this step obsolete The Card Software supports all Eltron Privilige Series of card printers 300 400 500 and 600 called Specific printers and also supports any Windows Printer Driver Specific Printer The Eltron Privilege Series of card printers are high quality printer family specifically designed for printing and encoding of credit card style plastic cards The Privilege Series of card printers are ideal for personalised identification access con trol visitor membership promotion etc card P300 Includes a Print Station P400 Includes a Print Station and a Card Flip Assembly P500 Includes a Print Station a Card Flip Assembly and a Lamination Station P600 Includes two Print Stations separated by
127. railing quiet zone Industrial 2 of 5 Industrial 2 of 5 is an older numeric discrete self checking low density symbology that has been used for warehouse sorting systems photo finishing envelope identification and airline ticket numbering All information is encoded in the width of the bars with the spaces serving only to separate the bars Bars are either wide or narrow By convention the wide bar is three times the width of the narrow bar and the space is typically the width of the narrow bar Narrow bars are read as a 0 bit and wide bars as a 1 bit With the exception of the zero start and stop digit the characters Card Software User Manual 179 are weighted left to right as 1 2 4 7 and parity The character set comprises the ten digits plus a start and a stop character Interleaved 2 of 5 Interleaved 2 of 5 is a variable length numeric continuous self checking high density symbology mainly used in the distribution industry Each bar code character encodes two numbers one in the spaces and one in the bars There are five bars and five spaces with two of the five in each being wide Since each bar code character represents two numbers all Interleaved 2 of 5 bar codes have an even number of digits The start code is two narrow bars with two narrow spaces The stop code is one wide bar one narrow space and one narrow bar These relatively crude start and stop codes can allow a partial scan to result in a valid
128. rd Software User Manual 173 17 About Barcodes This section provides information on bar codes and their use with the Card Software Bar Codes Introduction A bar code is a machine readable symbol representing human readable information The information represented can be alpha or numeric only limited alphanumeric or the full character set The human readable alpha or numeric characters are represented in the bar code symbol by a series of varying width vertical lines called bars and spaces Bars and spaces together are elements An element can be a wide black bar or white space or a narrow black bar or white space Each element is assigned a binary value of either 1 or 0 To represent the necessary character in the bar code the elements must follow a precise sequential order as part of a group Scanning is the process of acquiring or reading the information encoded in a bar code symbol To read the information contained in a bar code symbol a scanning device such as a light pen is moved across the symbol from one side to the other As the scanning device is moved across the symbol the width pattern of the bars and spaces is translated back into the original information Bar code is an optical technique because information is scanned using light that reflects off dark or light regions of the symbol 174 Card Software User Manual Bar Code Standards The number of elements and their order is defined
129. rd Software command buttons Tooltips explaining the functions of each button are displayed if you hold the mouse pointer over the desired button Note You must use a mouse to choose buttons on the toolbars You cannot use the keyboard The Card Work Area All your work to lay out a card is done in the Card Work Area This area displays a card outline depicting the physical limits of the card Any objects placed outside the card borders will not be printed The Split Window Bar Used to separate vertically the Card Work Area Window from the Database Window The split window can be sized with the mouse The Database Window Advanced Feature Displays all data field names and provides a field to enter or edit data for the current database Field Name Advanced Feature Display the database field names Card Software User Manual 33 Data Field Advanced Feature Used to enter and display database data Screen Setup Using the command Toolbars on the View menu you can display or hide any of the individual Card Software Toolbars oe Lier ati E oP barai Tia Using commands on the view menu you can also display or hide the card edge guidelines CTRL L The Show Grid and Grid Settings commands on the Options menu let you display or hide the layout grid CTRL G and control grid spacing and color Grid Settings x Spacing Cancel width fe 4 millimeters Height f2 millimete
130. record Previous Moves to the previous record Next Moves to the next record Last Moves to the last record Find Finds data in the current table Query Sets a search criteria Add Adds a new record Delete Deletes the current record Save Saves the current record Reports Creates and prints database reports Properties Allows to configure the database interface properties Define View Allows to define the database view Auto Print Sets and activates the auto print function Card Software User Manual 161 The Window Menu Cascade Arranges open card windows so that they overlap and the title bar of each window is displayed Tile Arranges open card windows horizontally with no over lapping Arrange Icons Arranges icons Card window list Provides a means to quickly display any open card and database or batch print Advanced Feature window The names of all open windows will be displayed Click on the desired file name to activate the window The Help Menu Contents Displays the Card Software Help contents Using Help Displays information about using the Card Software help sys tem About Card Software Displays the Card Software version serial number and copy right information Batch Print File Manager Window Advanced Feature The File Menu Close Closes the Batch Print File Manager window 162 Card Software User Manual The View Menu Back Swit
131. reen card with two diagonal lines through it This indicates that the image will be provided at print time 8 On the Standard toolbar click the Printer Tool The Card Print Dialog box appears See Chapter 21 Appendix A Printing amp Ribbon 9 Click OK to complete the action 10 Depending on the selection you made at step 6 you will be prompted to choose an image file or to acquire the image from your twain source 11 Repeat step 8 to 10 as many times as needed to print any number of cards with a different image on each card Note More information about how to use image sources you find in Chapter 12 Image Acquisition 78 Card Software User Manual Variable Text To add variable text The following steps assume you want to create a variable text object Employee Name for the employee s name At print time you will type the employee s name on the keyboard so you set the Variable Source field to Keyboard Input Advanced Feature You could also create a database with all the information about the employee names and set the variable source to ODBC Source See Chapter 10 Card Software and Database 1 On the lower toolbar click the Text tool the pointer changes to a hand with the Text icon 2 Move the mouse pointer to the point on the card where you want to place a corner 3 Press and hold the left mouse button and drag in any direction As you drag a rectangle forms with one corne
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133. rogram for Windows before trying to install the Card Software Running Setup on Windows 95 Insert the Card Software CD ROM in your CD ROM drive The Card Software Setup Screen appears after a few moments If the Card Software Setup Screen does not show up automatically choose Run from the Windows 95 Start Menu Card Software User Manual and type D setup where D is your CD ROM drive letter Follow the Setup instructions Running Setup on Windows NT 4 0 Insert the Card Software CD ROM in your CD ROM drive The Card Software Setup Screen appears after a few moments If the Card Software Setup Screen does not show up automatically choose Run from the Windows 95 Start Menu and type D setup where D is your CD ROM drive letter Follow the Setup instructions Normal Master Installation Setup Instructions The Language screen appears Choose the desired language Click Install Software The Welcome Dialog box appears Click Next to continue the installation Wekome to Cad Soliman I0 Cad Dinga Softee oi P ia a Hii hae ghd a pd aE Hiu may ee eo Te Geto sereng Heer Setup pop r lel Cancel equa Setup and then close arg mau my er ileal tartan paste akan ATM Th pipen in pecdacted by cag les ard ed Se Lira a ie peed ey em ee ge al ahale ie ow eo OF a ep eee ed a oe perce ed i be eerie ig ihe gre teed probie ares es So es The license Agreement screen appears if you agree with the license term
134. rs Select the table you want to work with and click finish The database view appears in a split window next to the card view Use the database toolbar to navigate add new modify or delete records see section The Card Software Database Functions later in this chapter Setup MS Paradox Data Source How to setup a MS Paradox data source 1 From the database menu click Connect The ODBC Source Selection dialog box opens Click the ODBC Manager button The Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator dialog box opens bie D R paima FEH e DSA OOR Dm Tag m TE adi Dore ao Eiman 5 ies Led Gere oo lem M mli b Se AD Dom dia coma niaren a remem nien ri rarei ss Te mieit daa pornim drm dia amar a amir LET Heal Cae a Dh aac e a elk ee Ex ee ee o E 2 Click the Add button to setup a new data source The Create New Data Source dialog box appears Select Microsoft Paradox Driver db and click Finish Card Software User Manual 117 3 The ODBC Microsoft Paradox Setup dialog box appears Type the name that identifies the data source such as Members List 4 Description field An optional description of the data in the data source for example Entry date salary history and current review of all members 5 Choose the correct version of your Paradox database Paradox 3 x 4 x or 5 x 6 Disable the Use current Directory check box Click the Select button a
135. rs Color sem ped Zooming the Card Image The size of the card image can be changed by using the Zoom In and Zoom Out commands on the View menu Exact placement of objects on the card is sometimes easier if the image is larger 34 Card Software User Manual Working wuh the Card Software Commands A command is an instruction that tells the Card Software to perform an operation The Card Software provides several ways for you to choose commands You can choose commands from a menu or toolbar or you can use shortcut keys Toolbar Commands The Card Software toolbars provide you with one step access to lots of tasks You can draw a rectangle place a photograph define a bar code edit text and much more all with just one click of a mouse button on one of the Card Software tools For more information about each of the Card Software toolbars see Chapter 15 Toolbars and Tools Menu Commands Commands are grouped in menus Some commands carry out an action immediately others display a dialog box so that you can select options You ll know that a command will display a dialog box if it is followed by three periods Mouse Shortcuts You can use a mouse shortcut to give you quick access an object s property sheet or to display a shortcut menu To display an object s property sheet m Point to the object 2 Click the right mouse button The object is selected and its property sheet a
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137. ry button at your database toolbar The Query Database dialog box appears 2 To find for example all clients which start with letter P click the button next to the field which contains your clients names Edit the query dialog box applying O in the Greater than box and Q in the Less than box Tip You can achieve the same result typing P in both the Greater Than and Less Than box and enabling the Exact Match check box Card Software User Manual Oe You may set further comparison condition for other fields 4 If you are familiar with SQL commands you can edit directly the command string for your query clicking the SQL button Click Submit to start the Query function 6 If you need to know the number of records found click Properties from the database menu and enable the Record Set Counter check box The number of records is listed in the box below an Note The Query function is not case sensitive 7 To access all records again click the Clear button in the Query Database dialog box Note if you save a card after applying the Query function the queries performed are saved as well Database Interface Properties Connection Time Out determines the period after which a connection to a data source is interrupted e g if server is down and control returned to the Card Software Query Time Out determines the period after which a query to a data source is interrupted e g if server is down and
138. s Select the table you want to work with and click finish The database view appears in a split window next to the card view Use the database toolbar to navigate add new modify or delete records see section The Card Software Functions later in this chapter Setup MS Excel Data Source How to setup a MS Excel data source 1 From the database menu click connect The ODBC Source Selection dialog box opens Click the ODBC Manager button The Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator dialog box opens ore DEN aera Fale are OB ressa Thisceag dcaa pe Di aun Sere aji j Hemi amen Dere frah Eal Charis Li Hever hean Dever i rb Giggi Lra Mend dhe Toe j Parga Be DOE Lira dete roen rire hereto teat beet cornered te EY a racked das pice Aila ihik acme a h mc Oe are nee mi be eee m ba nani raira 2 Click the Add button to setup a new data source The Create New Data Source dialog box appears Select Microsoft Excel Driver xls and click Finish Card Software User Manual 3 The ODBC Microsoft Excel Setup dialog box appears Type the name that identifies the data source such as Distributors List 4 Description field An optional description of the data in the data source for example Hire date salary history and current review of all distributors 5 Select the correct Excel version Excel III IV or 5 0 6 Disable the use current directory check box and click t
139. s Therefore you must treat the SOFTWARE PRODUCT like any other copyrighted material except that you may either a make one copy of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT solely for backup or archival purposes or b install the SOFTWARE PRODUCT on a single computer provided you keep the original solely for backup or archival purposes You may not copy the printed materials accompanying the SOFTWARE PRODUCT Card Software User Manual 15 2 Getting Started The following instructions tell you about minimum system requirements how to install the Card Software running Windows 95 or windows NT 4 0 and start the program for the first time System Requirements The recommended software and hardware configuration for you computer system to run the Card Software is An IBM compatible PC with a Pentium microprocessor 32 MB RAM Hard Disk with at least 50MB free disk space One CD ROM 8X speed drive Network Novel Systems Microsoft Network or similar operating system Windows 95 or NT 4 0 Intel Processor only VGA or SVGA graphics adapter and monitor Mouse or other Windows compatible pointing device Serial port SmartCard Reader and SmartCard Dongle Installation MicrosoftO Windows version 95 or later is required to install and run the Card Software You can run the Card Software on any system that can run Windows 95 if the system has enough RAM and hard disk space If Windows 95 is not installed run the setup p
140. s a dialog box which displays the captured images depending on the settings above Click the OK button to confirm all settings Life Video Acquisition Advanced Feature Life video acquisition on your card work area 1 2 Use the Image button from the drawing toolbar to open the image object dialog box Choose Image Source as variable source and Video in the source image properties dialog box If you want to call automatically the image tools workspace enable the corresponding check box After eventually performing changes with the image tools click the OK button in the Image Objekt dialog box The image appears on your card workspace Double click on the image to toggle between freeze and unfreeze Life video acquisition on your database photo field 1 Click inside the database photo field A shortcut menu appears Select Video The analog image appears inside the database photo field Freeze the image stop the image movement and transform it in bitmap with a double click over the image To unfreeze the image double click again To toggle fast between freeze and unfreeze press F8 Using the serial port Some models of digital cameras come with a proper software which reads the images from the digital camera s floppy disk using the serial port Save the image s in any of the file formats used by the Card Software bmp tif tga pcx jpg Use the image objects tool and choose open from file to acq
141. s confirm with Yes Setup prompts you with the Setup Installation Type Choose Normal Master Installation and click Next Card Software User Manual 17 Curas Saip baisiai Typa H Licence krisis Tao Poaceae We aidai beat icra cid rar a Me Tares You red a eal bhaa Seid Dongle i Fran the spplicaion _ sues ie e Setup prompts you with the default installation path Confirm or change the Card Software directory Click Next Setup prompts you with the default group folder Confirm or change the Card Software Group folder Click Next Setup will create a program group called Card Software and program icons for the installed programs a Card Software olx File Edit View Help a 2 2 eerie Clipart Viewer Help Ys ZS 4 ODBC Problem Read PDF Administrator Report Form 1 object s selected 389 bytes 4 The installation is complete when the setup dialog box confirms so The Card Software setup will prompt you to reboot the system highly recommended 18 Card Software User Manual Cdit A HH Gt THE APRUCATION WILL HOT WORE F TIU GONT FERDOT SOUR COMPUTER F i ai a rel P Mal siraji rag pomis laiar Riserad Hh fb ha ai red a ako Farah o carie nek Net License Installation Setup Instructions The Language screen appears Choose the desired language Click Install Software The Welcome Dialog box appears Click Next to continue the installation welcome be Cad Softee O Cad Deai
142. s you to print on any Label printer which is provided with its proper Windows driver Note the label size settings must have the same measurements as the standard plastic card format 88 7 x 54 2 millimeters Paper Printers The Card Software permits to print on paper with any Laser Ink Jet or Needle printer which comes with a proper windows driver The Card Software s special column and row settings permit to print front and back side of the card on the same sheet as well as several cards on one sheet This concept permits to print card proofs on paper or creating low cost cards using paper lamination Card Software User Manual 203 Card Setup Setting up the card 1 To setup the card using a Windows Printer Driver from the File menu choose Printer Setup Select Use Windows Printer and choose the printer name you want to work with Click Ok 2 The properties button allows you to perform driver driver specific settings see your printer documentation like paper size orientation etc 3 From the File menu choose the Card Setup The selected printer dialog box appears kit Pusa Cad Pitt Pepelea 204 Card Software User Manual 4 Set the card orientation to Portrait or Landscape The paper section displays the paper size you defined when setting your printer properties see above steep 2 The Card Software allows you to print both sides of the card on the same page when using paper for that select 2 in t
143. samples which are provided with the Card Software CD ROM You also can use it for any other clipart library assembled by bitmap bmp images The Clipart Viewer Utility Starting Clipart Viewer Open the Clipart Viewer 1 Open the Card Software program group and double click the Clipart Viewer program icon Card Software User Manual 71 Note The Clipart Viewer searches automatically for Clipart Volume I or HI at drive C D E and F If Clipart Volume I or H are not found it opens with a blank screen Clipart Viewer Toolbar Var ey eld of 4 4 Up and down button Scrolls through images vertically ne Left and right button Changes the number of image columns by or 1 Tip You can set the number of columns directly to 2 4 8 12 or 20 Right click the left or right button and choose the number of columns you want Open button Opens the directory of a clipart library in your computer system Quick Browse Two drop down menus to quickly select the image category you want Choose between black amp white images and select one of the categories available in Clipart Volume I or II Print button Prints a page of all images in the current directory l Info button Displays information on number 5 software Close button Exits the Clipart Viewer 72 Card Software User Manual Export an Image Export an image to your card working area 1 Choo
144. sc CISC A S ASE 2 50 342800 Microsc Microsoft Visual FoxPro Driver 5 00 00348 Microsc SQL Server 2 65 0213 Microsc 3 The ODBC Microsoft Text Setup dialog box appears Type the name that identifies the data source such as Pupils List 4 Description field An optional description of the data in the data source for example Entry date school history and current review of all pupils 5 Disable the Use current Directory check box Click the Select button and browse to the file you want to connect 6 Click the Options gt gt button to define the text file format It lists the filename extensions of the text files on the data source To see all files in the directory select the Default check box To find only files with certain extension clear the Default check box and add each extension you want to see The extension must use the format xxx To remove an extension highlight the extension in the Extensions list and click the Remove button Card Software User Manual 121 122 E a 7 Click the Define Text Format button which enables you to specify the schema for individual tables in the data source directory In the tables section select the table you want to access enable Column Name Header if the first line of your text file contains a header and define the corresponding delimiter In the columns section you can edit the format of each column of the selected table Set
145. se an Image and click on it The Image Info window appears The image is displayed in its true size measurement in pixels and automatically exported to the Windows clipboard BIRD1 BMP 258 x 199 2 Activate the Card Software and select Use Windows Clipboard from the Edit menu Tip You can toggle between the Card Software and Clipart Viewer pressing Alt Tab 3 Import the image from the Windows Clipboard Select Paste from the Edit menu Tip Use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl V to paste the image Card Software User Manual 73 7 Working with Variables This section explains how to use variable data with the Card Software 74 Variable D ata Contrary to fixed data which is edited when the card is designed variable data changes It is edited or becomes available at the time the card is printed When you design the card instead of typing the actual data you create a placeholder called a variable At print time the variable data replaces your named variable at its location on the card Some of the sources for variable data are the computer keyboard internal information that the computer system keeps track of the date and time ODBC sources and concatenation of sources Before variable data can be used with the tools that support it text bar code PDF image or magnetic encoding you must create and name a variable field for each piece of information you wish to add to the card at print time This named f
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147. st Displays a list of all objects that can be edited or deleted Duplicate Item Makes a copy of an object and places it slightly offset and overlapping from the original Unlike the Copy command Duplicate doesn t place a copy of the object on the clipboard The View Menu Toolbars Let you show or hide any of the individual Card Software Toolbars Card Info Displays the full card document information of the active card Zoom In Magnifies the size of the card depicted on the screen Zoom Out Reduces the size of the card depicted on the screen Guidelines Toggles the display of the guidelines that mark the edges of the printable area of the card Front Side Displays the front side of the active card Back Side Displays the back side of the active card Card Software User Manual The Drawing Tools Menu Selector Activates the Selector tool used to select objects Line Object Activates the Line tool for drawing horizontal or vertical lines Rectangle Object Activates the Rectangle tool for drawing rectangles of variable size Filled Rectangle Object Activates the Filled Rectangle tool for drawing filled rectangles of variable size Text Object Activates the Text tool for editing text Image Object Activates the Image tool for editing images Barcode Object Activates the Barcode tool for editing bar code symbols PDF Symbol Object Activates the PDF Symbol tool for editing PDF symbols Magn
148. sy to use image acquisition functionality integrated directly into the user s application and work flow The effort was successful and resulted in the Twain interface specification Card Software User Manual 187 20 ODBC Advanced Notions This section explains the ODBC Open Database Connectivity architecture ODBC Components The ODBC architecture has four components Application Performs processing and calls ODBC functions to submit SQL Simply Query Language statements and retrieve results Driver Manager Loads drivers on behalf of an application Driver Processes ODBC function calls submits SQL requests to a specific data source and returns results to the application If necessary the driver modifies an application s request so that the request conforms to syntax supported by the associated DBMS Database Management System Data Source Is the data the user wants to access and its associated operating system DBMS and network platform if any used to access the DBMS Application An Application using ODBC performs the following tasks 1 Requests a connection or session with a data source 2 Sends SQL requests to the data source 3 Defines storage areas and data formats for the results of SQL requests 4 Requests results 5 Processes errors 6 Reports results back to a user if necessary 7 Requests commit or rollback operations for transaction control 8 Terminates the connection to the data
149. t and width of the symbol and the amount of data that can be contained in a single symbol is significantly greater than that stored in a one dimensional symbol In fact over a thousand alphanumeric characters can be placed in a single symbol the size of a large postage stamp Obviously the main advantage of using 2D bar codes is that potentially a large amount of easily and accurately read data can accompany the item to which it is attached There are new applications being created for 2D bar code technology every day The reading scanning of 2D codes is accomplished using different scanners than those made to scan 1D symbols Two strategies are currently used The first and most common uses a moving laser beam scanner that not only sweeps back and forth across the symbol but also up and down in what is termed a raster pattern Alternately CCD charge coupled device Card Software User Manual scanners are used CCD scanners use a two dimensional array of photo sensors to scan the image in its entirety One of the beneficial aspects of two dimensional symbols is their potential durability To sabotage the readability of a 1D symbol one only has to add another bar to the beginning or end of the symbol or draw a line through the symbol parallel to the stripes This throws off the checks and balances built into the decoding algorithms of a 1D decoder and makes the symbol unreadable By comparison many degrees of redundancy can b
150. t dialog box Magnetic Encoder Tool To use the Magnetic Encoder tool 1 On the Drawing toolbar click the Magnetic Encoder tool The Magnetic Code Object Properties dialog box appears Hagarin Code Dior ijjH osel Hiers j J one Trot 1 r Er Dipi Code Waniabis Sane iar Tuch 1 Morea r J Troch 2 re Disi Cade Wibi Source bur Tick 2 ivan Track 3 F Eni THa Code Mikai asda hi Tik J mas 1 oe irea 2 Select the Encode check box for each track 1 2 or 3 you wish to encode 3 If the data for a track will not be changing from card to card type the data in the Default Code box for that track Card Software User Manual 215 216 4 Ifthe data for a track will be changing from card to card in the Variable Source box select the variable that is going to provide the data for that track 5 Repeat steps 3 and 4 for each track you wish to encode 6 When finished click OK E 7 On the Standard toolbar click the Printer tool The Card Print Dialog box appears 8 Select the Encode check box to enable magnetic stripe encoding 9 If printing more than one card click Multiple and then type or select the number of cards to print Type or select the number of Copies of each card to print 10 Click OK to print the card s 11 Every card will be magnetically encoded with the speci fied data If the Print check box from the Operations sec tion is enabled printing starts after the
151. t group folder Confirm or change the Card Software Group folder Click Next Setup will create a program group called Card Software and program icons for the installed programs A Card Software 2 BET EMOEIS Clipart Viewer Help P a K Problem Read PDF Administrator Report Form Card Software User Manual 21 The installation is complete when the setup dialog box confirms so The Card Software setup will prompt you to reboot the system highly recommended Cadi oha YAN Bh G THE APRU CAT DR aL HOT eT F YOU DONT FERODT TOGA COMPUTER A e ey cormpe is liste Fien ge cides earn ages bi rl aoa ls Farell ie dinika baad EEE Setup Options Depending on your Card Software version and operating system Setup will prompt you to install the Data Access Pack Advanced Feature Highly recommended unless you already have Data Access Pack installed The Data Access Pack installation will start Microsoft Data Access Pack Setup Starting Microsoft Data Access Pack Setup please wait 22 Card Software User Manual The Microsoft Data Access Pack Setup dialog box appears Setups prompts you with the default installation path Confirm or change the Data Access directory Click Ok Microsoft Data Access Pack Setup 29 x Setup will install Microsoft Data Access Pack in the following destination folder To install to this folder click OK To install to a different folder click the Change Folder button
152. t stations separated by a card flip assembly this means that if you use a Privilege 600 the Card Software allows you to increase the printing speed using two print station at the same time as well as permits to combine different types of ribbon Dui Rite paia Toa Has Seong Pear Sapa Ete tie Ainas Fara peat te et E H Pmi is sane PME aa Tyee F Coe Te C AE arim F chet M it P Los F LHi F ee ee F De ae ae ee By As the P600 consist of two print stations both have to be configured The types of ribbon available are equal see above in this Chapter Ribbon Types for both stations Click the ra dio button for the proper ribbon type installed in each printer station The Card Software displays a Warning message if you set a ribbon combination not suitable for the P600 A Miia hoe b o a Card Software User Manual Print with Windows Driver Printer Types The Card Software allows you to print on any printer which is provided with a proper Windows driver Card Printer Using the proper Windows printer driver for your card printer the Card Software allows you to use any card printer For special printer ribbon settings see your card printer documentation as well as related help files Besides that the Card Software allows you to use any card printer it also permits to work on card layout database edition etc at print time simultaneously Label Printer The Card Software allow
153. ta sources listed in the Data Source Selection dialog box These sources are set for each of the installed drivers defining the default driver settings and the default database directory which is c windows system To connect to your database you have to setup a new data source for it first or edit an existing source The next sections explain driver specific the ODBC data source setup 106 Card Software User Manual Setup MS Access Data Source How to setup a MS Access data source 1 From the database menu click Connect The ODBC Source Sglection dialog box opens Click the ODBC Manager button The Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator dialog box opens 2 Click the Add button to setup a new data source The Create New Data Source dialog box appears Select Microsoft Access Driver mdb and click Finish inaia Fi Dai SAHHA Card Software User Manual 107 108 3 The ODBC Microsoft Access 97 Setup dialog box appears Type the name that identifies the data source such as Clients List 4 Description field An optional description of the data in the data source for example Hire date salary history and current review of all clients 5 Disable the Use current Directory check box Click the Select button and browse to the database you want to connect 6 If you need to create a new database select the Create button and provide a file name in the appearing new database dialog box and confirm
154. ter 1 To setup the ribbon type of your printer select Printer Setup from the File menu The Printer Setup dialog box appears 2 Check Use Specific Printer and select your printer type name Click Properties The specific printer dialog box appears Click the ribbon tab Fan dempe F EEI Pegged os MA Card Software User Manual 195 Tip You can also access the Printer Properties box from within the Card Print dialog box 3 Click the radio button for the proper ribbon type installed in your printer and if using a P400 printer or greater the front back color choices Confirm with OK Setting the P400 or greater Because the P400 or greater printers are able to print on both sides of the card you can choose the colors to be used on each side For the listed ribbons the Card Software allows the following front back color combinations Ribbon Front Back 3 Panel Color 4 Panel Color 5 Panel Color 6 Panel Color Monochrome Black Sublimation Overlay Black Resin Overlay 196 Note The 5 Panel ribbon does not support the Print in Black Panel function for the front back combination Color Black and Black Color You have to use the 6 Panel ribbon instead Card Software User Manual Encoding Click the Encoding tab to change the encoding settings Cid Bitters Eee Tein aai Gere Paras emi papery f S s s C rt i OCO OCO OCOCOCC z t
155. ter the desired height Color Click Color The Color dialog box appears Select the desired color Click OK Protected If checked you can turn the object not selectable enabling the Activate Protected Objects function from the Options menu Fried A octane Ul tyr Preperiern Ei serine Sect Meh ma Text Properties Text properties affect the position of the text on the card and its appearance How your text looks depends on the attributes you assign to it Think of an attribute as a characteristic of the text its font size color whether it is italic or boldface and so on Card Software User Manual 57 58 fa 4 F j Fer Coy Flatir aiga r T ji PETE soe T ira be Diari Posed l Eee WoT Alig tote et anima 270 Drage r een r ORA Style Regular Bold Italic Bold Italic Examples of text attributes Card Software works wonders Card Software works wonders Card Software works wonders Card Software works wonders You use the Font and the Font Color dialog boxes to change text attributes Note The attributes you select apply to all the text comprising the selected text object You cannot for example make one word bold and leave the rest of the text regular If you want text with different attributes use the Text tool to create another text object Then apply the desired attributes to the new text object Text properties are Text Type the text you want to appe
156. th the feature Front and Back the overlay can be managed in both sides of the card independently Card Software User Manual Bitmap Based Overlay To prepare a bitmap and define overlay properties 1 Use a Windows application like Paint to draw the bitmap Set width 85 3mm and height 52 8mm Type the number in the area where you want it later to appear on your card Use black letters Save the image as bitmap phone bmp 351 61 965656 2 From the Options menu choose Overlay Clipping or 3 Click the right mouse button on a place not on an object The Shortcut menu appears Choose Overlay Clipping The Overlay Properties dialog box appears In the Overlay Properties dialog box choose Bitmap Based Overlay Browse to the overlay bitmap you have created before The overlay is printed in all white areas sparing out the black number Holding the printed card against the light the number appears as a kind of hologram Click Ok You have created and selected a bitmap file to be used as overlay Vee Baden Bae bead iE Sates eT ra A Si i r a _ _ __ i _ n J w ima j ia To a aimem ESE Note you may only use one kind of overlay types for the same card side Card Software User Manual 89 9 Chip Card If your printer is equipped with a chip card encoder you can encode data onto memory cards About Chip Cards There are two basic types of chip cards the memory card and the i
157. tment multi line rotation color size alignment Bar code 17 types available resize check digit and more PDF417 up to 64K in a bar code symbol 3 tracks magnetic encoding Plug in for external chip card processing software Image import from file in several formats Image acquisition using Twain Interface Modify images with built in Image Tools Printing Hologram Ribbon Overlay clipping and image import for security Independent overlay for Front amp Back System Variables counters time date and keyboard input Supported printers Privilege 300 400 500 and 600 Professional P600 edition support the P600 printer Ability to use any Windows printer driver Fast printing speed optimized for multiple cards Front amp back printing On line manuals amp Acrobat Reader Clipart Volume I Multi lingual English French German Italian Spanish and Portuguese Ease of use light software for heavy duty card design Card Software User Manual 219 Premier Database variables Internal database Fast database editing with EOF options Encoding photos in PDF symbol Printed manual Software Key Clipart Volume II Paint Shop Pro shareware Adobe Acrobat Reader Professional Logins and password for maximum access security External database and ODBC Administrator to access all major database formats Print Database reports on paper Database properities including image compression define view to hide and unhide fields browse v
158. ton The Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator dialog box opens Card Software User Manual 109 110 2 Click the Add button to setup a new data source The Create New Data Source dialog box appears Select Microsoft dBase Driver dbf and click Finish 3 The ODBC Microsoft dBase Setup dialog box appears Type the name that identifies the data source such as Suppliers List 4 Description field An optional description of the data in the data source for example Hire date salary history and current review of all suppliers Card Software User Manual 5 Select the correct dBase version dBase III IV or 5 0 6 Disable the use current directory check box and click the Select Directory button and browse to the database you want to connect 7 For more information on Select Indexes and Options gt gt see Microsoft documentation 8 Click OK to confirm all settings and end your ODBC session clicking the OK button in the ODBC Data Source Administrator dialog box You are back to the ODBC Source Selection dialog box How to Select the MS DBase data source 1 Click the Refresh button in the ODBC Source Selection dialog box Browse through the available data source listing until you find the name of the data source for example Suppliers List you just defined and click the Next button Card Software User Manual 111 112 2 The Select table dialog box appear
159. tructure dialog box appears Pro ceed as explained later in this chapter Create a New Ta ble Creating a Card Software Database Advanced Feature 1 Some editions of the Card Software are specially designed to access an external already existing database see chap ter 23 Appendix C Card Software Basic Features to see if your edition supports this feature If you need to create a database from within the Card Software you must use the MsAccess ODBC driver setup see later in this chapter at section Setup MsAccess Data Source Card Software User Manual Open an Internal Database Opening an Internal Card Software Database Advanced Feature 1 From the Database menu choose Connect The ODBC Source Selection dialog box appears Select the database filename you want and click Next 2 Select the operation you want to perform and proceed as explained later in the chapter section Working with Tables Disconnect from a Database Disconnect from a Database 1 From the Database menu choose Disconnect Note As soon as you link a database field to the card layout this option is disabled Working With Tables Create a new Table Create a new table 1 After connecting successfully to an Internal Card Software database the select table dialog box appears Card Software User Manual 101 2 Click New The Database Table Structure dialog box appears 3 Type the tab
160. u s oja TBS mi E s gt The tools on the Drawing Toolbar are K Selector Used to select an object l Line Draws horizontal or vertical lines u Rectangle Draws a rectangle of variable size a Filled Rectangle Draws a filled rectangle of variable size m Text Defines a text field id 3 Image Draws a frame to contain an image Card Software User Manual wt Barcode Draws a bar code symbol eal Barcode PDF Draws a bar code PDF symbol e Magnetic Encoder Encodes magnetic stripe cards with fixed or variable data Es Chip Card Encoder Sets parameters for an external chip processing application g Overlay Clipping Defines the size shape and placement of the overlay coating The Database Toolbar Advanced Feature The Database Toolbar contains command buttons for accessing the commands in the Database menu zes Ke gt a ajaja gaja sE The tools on the Database Toolbar are Browse View Toggles between the Browse and Record View 6 Connect Connects to a database L Disconnect Disconnects from the database KR First Moves to the first record lt eta Moves to the previous record gt Next Moves to the next record gt I Last Moves to the last record a ind Finds data in the current table Card Software User Manual 169 170 k Query Sets a search criteria l Add Adds a new record X Delete Deletes the
161. uire the desired image Card Software User Manual 13 Logins and Passwords Advanced Feature The Card Software provides customizable security and access level Whenever you start the Card Software the Login Dialog box appears if the Disable Logins check box is cleared The default login and password is admin Login means an access level password the access authorization Administrator Login Edit Administrator Logins 1 From the File menu select Logins The Logins dialog box appears FF Demis Loge Card Software User Manual 153 154 2 3 Clear the Disable Logins check box to activate this secu rity feature Select Administrator and click the Edit button The Edit User Properties dialog box appears Tide ded Pini wong a Type a login of your choice Proceed equal with your Card Software password and confirm it The database login and password give access authorization to an ex ternal database of yours Make sure all areas are selected Create User Login Add User Login 1 From the File menu select Logins The Logins dialog box appears Click the New button The New User dialog box appears Card Software User Manual 2 Edit user name login and password as well as Database login and password if necessary 3 Depending on what kind of job you want your employee may perform select one or multiple access areas Access Areas No area selected The following operati
162. ure can be used if for example you wish to punch a hole in the card on the opposite side of the magnetic stripe avoiding that way to damage the stripe In the Print Range section select Single 1 or Multiple 2 or more cards to print If printing multiple enter the number of cards to be printed If you using a database Advance Feature select the Print All box to print all records or the type the Number of Records to be printed In the Copies section enter the number of copies of each card to be printed Click OK If you are printing variable data you may be prompted to enter data from the keyboard select an image file or acquire an image Otherwise your card will be printed while on screen messages keep you informed of the progress Card Software User Manual Print Manager Advanced Feature The Card Software allows you to create a batch file which contains data of one or more card documents instead of printing the card documents right away Printing to a File To create a batch print file 1 From the File menu choose Card Print You can also press the shortcut Ctrl P The Card Print dialog box appears 2 In the Destination section select the Print Manager In the Operation section choose Print Note All other options work the same way as printing a card document directly see above Printing Cards If you want to print multiple cards and or multiple copies perform magnetic enc
163. ut Properties Dialog Box 9 Click OK to close the Barcode Properties dialog box 10 The bar code which appears on the on screen card contains the encrypted information Employee s ID Number At print time yov ll provide the correct data 11 On the Standard toolbar click the Printer Tool The Card Print dialog box appears See Chapter 21 Appendix A Printing amp Ribbon 12 Click OK The Text Input Dialog box appears prompting you to enter data to the employee s ID number Note repeat step 11 and 12 as many times as needed to print any number of cards with a different barcode on each card Card Software User Manual Important While some bar codes will accept numbers letters and symbols others will accept only numbers See Chapter 17 About Bar Codes Variable PDF Toadda Variable PDF Symbol The following steps assume you want to create a variable PDF symbol for the Employee s ID Number At print time you will type the employee s ID number on the keyboard so you set the Variable Source field to Keyboard Input Advanced Feature You could also create a database with all the information about the employee s and set the Variable source field to ODBC Source See Chapter 10 Card Software and Database 1 On the lower toolbar click the PDF Symbol tool the pointer changes to a hand with the PDF Symbol icon 2 Move the mouse pointer to a place on the card where you want to
164. want to move objects on your cards as you create them And sometimes you ll need to line up objects in a particular way along the bottom of the card perhaps or with each other Moving Objects To move an object 1 Select the object When you move an object a dotted outline appears as you drag 2 Drag the object to its new location Tip You can place an object more precisely if it s not trying to snap to the grid Disable the Snap to Grid checkbox in the Grid Settings dialog box from the Options menu CTRL H Warning If the card work area is zoomed to a high level clicking on an object will align it s right border with the right border of the card workspace window Avoid moving objects ina high zoom level Card Software User Manual Aligning Objects You can align objects by using the Card Software Snap to Grid feature To align objects 1 2 From the Options menu select Show Grid CTRL G The grid will appear on the card From the Options menu select Grid Settings The Grid Settings dialog box will appear Select the Snap to Grid checkbox Type or select the Spacing Width and Height to provide adequate grid spacing Select and move the objects to be aligned The upper left corner of the object will snap to the grid providing a reference location for alignment Rotating Objects You can rotate bar codes images and single lines of text in 90 degrees increments To rotate an object 1
165. with a PDF card reader to decode the image information of a PDF symbol Setting up the Photo Reader To set up the Photo Reader 1 Open the Card Software Program Group Click on the Readpdf icon Cand Sofas Pipa Vie P 2 DL Paben diii Nepi Fan 2 The PDF Photo Reader window appears Card Software User Manual 145 146 PDF Photo Reader 3 Click Port Setup The Serial Port Settings dialog box appears faecal Pil Gangs 4 Select the port your PDF card reader uses normally COM2 Check the correct baud rate and data format of your computer system See your PDF Card Reader manual for the correct settings Click OK to confirm your settings Card Software User Manual Reading a Photo Using the Photo Reader 1 Start the Photo Reader 2 Read the card with your PDF card reader The encoded image appears black amp white in the PDF Photo Reader window PDF Photo Reader Bi Ea Port Setup Exit Status Finished 3 To proceed click Clear Image and repeat step 2 To end the PDF Photo Reader session click Exit Tip You can toggle between the Card Software and PDF Photo Reader pressing Alt Tab Limitations The PDF417 symbol used by the Card Software may contain up to 64K of data Anyhow the photo encoding process is limited to 1 5K of data which composes a PDF symbol still fitting onto the card Therefore the Card Software uses 3 methods of data co

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