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Loftware Label Manager®: Release Notes

Version 9.x

Loftware Label Manager Version 9.7 - Release Notes June 2010

Feature	Details
New Features and Enhancements	Added support for the Loftware Label Manager on 32-bit versions of Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008. Improved printing performance on ZPL Printers with firmware x.10 or later for labels using True Type Fonts (TTF). Enhanced debugging and logging utilities.
Bug Fixes	True Type fonts (TTF) are now printed correctly on generic text printer drivers. True Type fonts with accented characters (such as those used in French) now print correctly when passed in a fixed text field. Resolved an issue where attempting to reassign an incomplete printer in the printer grid does not work correctly. Fixed an issue where label description and printer information were missing in the File Preview dialog when a label file is selected.. Changing printer model in the printer grid now does NOT cause connection re-assignment. Fixed an issue where high ASCII values were removed from the data if the label has a field with a scripting data source.

Loftware does not support the Loftware Label Manager version 9.7 on Windows 2000.
Other Loftware products, including the Loftware Connectors and Loftware WebAccess, are currently NOT supported on Windows 7, Vista, or Window Server 2008.
Created a consolidated Installation Guide for the Loftware Label Manager and the Loftware Print Server. The new guide is available on the CD or download package, and in the Download > User Guides section of loftware.com.

Loftware Label Manager Version 9.6.1 - Release Notes March 2010

Feature	Details
New Features and Enhancements	Field Reverse command for barcodes is now supported for ZPL printers. Introduced a debugging tool that identifies running Loftware processes on a system, creates optional reports of the processes and creates a mini dump for each process that can then be utilized by the Loftware Technical Support team for further analysis of any odd behavior.
Bug Fixes	UTF-8 formatting can now be maintained through a setting when the data is passed to a non-printing field on the ODP Form.

Loftware Label Manager Version 9.6 - Release Notes January 2010

Feature	Details
New Features	Added support for Zebra ZM400 and ZM600 RFID printers.
Enhancements	Improved printing performance for the labels that contain many fields and a script data source. Performance improvements on Eltron (EPL) printer drivers. Performance improvements in printing of labels associated with a page layout for Zebra (ZPL) printers. The ratio for the code 39 barcode symbology can now be set in 0.1 increments for Zebra (ZPL) printers. Users are alerted when the DSN is changed so that they can check if they need to change any advanced connection string values. Datamatrix barcodes can now be printed on Zebra printers at a fixed size by using reserved field names.
Bug Fixes	UTF8 data in the True Type Font (TTF) fields overlapped on a background image now prints correctly when using Windows and PDF drivers. Tear Off command is now honored correctly on the Zebra QL series printers. Incrementing fields on labels with layouts are now counted correctly after network disconnects. Fixed an issue with Print Preview on labels containing formulas where a formula was being used to populate a paragraph field. Loftware Label Manager (LLM) Designer now always shows a confirmation warning message to you when you try to copy fields from one label to another label that has a field-list. The Force Max # Chars setting now applies to data entry fields on the On Demand Print form.

*Important! To run version 9.6 of the Loftware Label Manager, the Loftware Print Server, the Loftware Clients or the Loftware Web Clients on Windows 2000, you must install the Update Rollup 1 for Windows 2000 SP4. To locate the update, go to Microsoft.com, and search for
“Windows2000-KB891861-v2-x86-ENU.EXE.”

Loftware Label Manager Version 9.5.3 - Release Notes June 2009

Feature	Details
New Features and Enhancements	‘Print Preview’ now resolves the formulas and data sources used on the label. A new setting for the Zebra Printer Language (ZPL) in the ‘Preferences’ window now enables a user to set the anchoring of the Datamatrix barcodes to the bottom-left instead of the top-left (which is the default behavior). A new setting in the ‘Preferences’ window now enables a user to truncate the length of a field to the value specified in the ‘Max # of Chars’ property for the field. When a user copies fields from one label to another label that has a field-list, Loftware Label Manager (LLM) Designer shows a warning message asking the user to confirm the operation. Upon confirmation, the fields are copied to the new label along with their respective field names.
Bug Fixes	Leading and trailing spaces are now automatically truncated from the printer names. Text fields that use True Type Font (TTF) and use leading spaces for padding now print correctly and no longer shift position on the label.

Loftware Label Manager Version 9.5.2 - Release Notes February 2009

Feature	Details back to version info
New Features and Enhancements	None
Bug Fixes	Eltron Programming Language (EPL) graphics can now be printed on printers with number 101 and higher. Fixed the field–level java script print–time failure which occurred when non–printable ASCII characters such as formula functions were encoded in a barcode. Fixed the label rotation error in field–level scripting. Labels having rotations other than 0 degree can now be used. Resolved inverse printing for True Type Fonts (TTF) fonts. Updated installation process to install the four sample ODBC data sources. Labels are not lost when ‘WaitRead’ flag is set to 1 in the LLMWDN32.ini file. Modified ‘Help > About Window’ in Loftware Label Manager Designer to fit the licensing information in the display area of the screen.

Loftware Label Manager Version 9.5.1 - Release Notes November 2008

Feature	Details back to version info
New Features and Enhancements	Support for new GS1 international standards conventions for barcode symbologies Support for storing Job Status information in a database Windows Latin 5 character set added to Intermec PM4i (FP Version) PS0/LSO
Bug Fixes	Resolved True Type Font WYSIWYG Issues: - Horizontal Width on field (HW+1 or HW+2 on field with 36 character width) - Entire field moving vertically when any handle corner is single-clicked Corrected "starting block number" command formatting for encoding RFID tag Removed invalid Font Category ‘Native Font’ in On Demand Print Form Fixed Batch Print crash problem encountered with a field copying data from a paragraph field (True Type Font Centered) Fixed non–appearance of Avery 6405 RFID DSO’s (Tag Type, Hot Spot, and Number of Retries) in the print stream from On Demand Print Fixed incorrect Formula field results after merging GM1724–A label from a Zebra 105Se printer to a Zebra 2844 printer Fixed Job Status client request where valid Job Numbers were being returned as ‘Job Not Found’ Fixed intermittent problem with some Asian characters that displayed correctly in the Input Method Editor (IME); however appeared as ‘?’ after being selected Fixed indefinite client connection blocking when Printer is in Error State Modified File Viewer in Status Client to correctly display UTF8 and high ASCII characters Fixed Status Client File View ‘Search’ dialog Resolved Maxicode compressed (Mode 3) not printing to some Paxar/Monarch printers

Loftware Print Server Version 9.5 - Release Notes August 2008

Feature	Details back to version info
LLM Field Level Scripting	JavaScript scripting Permits special data processing operations at the label level Allows modifying information in any field(s) of a label, from a single script
PCL5 Printer Driver Enhancements	Manage laser and any other PCL compliant printers on a per label basis Automatically select the appropriate custom page size Support for the complete range of PCL5 page stock sizes
Windows Printer Handling Enhancements	Set Windows Printer configuration settings (including both label and printer specific options) via the Loftware Label Manager Device Configuration Grid Archive different sized labels in a single PDF file
New Printers	Zebra ZM400 (ZPL) Zebra ZM600 (ZPL)

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