Picture Properties

You can specify the picture to appear on the label by modify options on the Picture properties tab. Select the picture object that you want to modify, then click the button , you will get the Picture properties dialog, the easiest way to display this dialog is to double-click on the picture object.

Transparent: Used to specify whether the color of first pixel in the picture file (0,0) will be the transparent color in the whole picture.

Datasource:The Data Source property page of picture object is used to specify the path and name of external image file to read, you can click the open button to get a external image file name. Barcode Label Workshop now supports BMP, JPEG, GIF, WMF, ICO, PNG format images.

*Note: Only enterprise edition supports picture object reading image file name from database.

Bind Data to Objects from Datasheet

When working with barcode, text objects and *picture objects, the options on the Data Source property page allow you to specify whether the data used to print labels will be typed in at the keyboard, read from an external data file, or received from one of a number of other possible sources. the Data Source property page of picture object is used to specify the path and name of external image file to read.

Select the object that you want to modify, then click the button , you will get the Properties dialog, the easiest way to display this dialog is to double-click on the object. Then choose Data Source property page.

You can choose from the following types data source for the objects:

• Constant data: Used to enter a constant data for an object.
• Data field : This is used to specify which field from your datasheet will used for the data when printing label.
• Date time : Data or time value read from the date setting of your computer when printing label.

* Note: Only enterprise edition supports picture object reading image file name from database.