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Setting Description
[Field] The drop-down list contains the available column headers of the selected
data source. Select one or more column headers from the data source. For
each selected row, the variable data is taken from each field of the selected
column. The variable data is printed on the master document.
You can use fields of type:
• Image
NOTE
If you select a field type other than "Image", a red cross is dis-
played in the frame in the preview view.
The image field must contain:
• The name of the image.
• The absolute path to the image or the path relative to the image folder.
Images of type BMP, GIF, TIFF, TIF, JPEG, JPG, PNG and EPS are supported.
[Image folder]
Click the [Browse...] button. Browse to the image folder.
You can define one image folder per image frame.
NOTE
If you select a folder that does not contain images, a red cross is
displayed in the frame in the preview view.
[Transparency] You can define the transparency of the image.
• Use the variable data or the counter in combination with static text for text frames and barcode
frames:
Setting Description
[Insert field] The drop-down list contains the available column headers of the selected
data source. Select one or more column headers from the data source. For
each selected row, the variable data is taken from each field of the selected
column. The variable data is printed on the master document.
You can use fields of type:
• String
• Number
• Date and time
[Insert row num-
ber]
You can add the number of each row in the data source to the variable data.
• [Number format]
Select the format for the row numbers.
• [Insert total number of rows]
Select this option to add the total number of rows of the data source to
the row numbering.
The row number is displayed as: <current row number>/<total number of
rows>.
• [Number of digits]
You can define a fixed number of digits to express the row number. Lead-
ing zeros are used to pad the row number. If the defined number of digits
is too small to express the number of rows, the actual number of rows is
used.
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Add a text, image, or barcode frame
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