Rice Lake Ishida AstraLabel User Guide - Manual (Page 13)

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Transmit Label to the Scales
Select Transmit Label from the Tools menu to transmit the label in the currently active Label
Edit window to the scales. See Sending and Receiving Labels from the Scales for further
details.
Set the Grid and Zoom Options
You can enlarge or reduce the label display by setting the zoom ratio using the Zoom
command in the View menu.
You can specify whether or not to display a grid and set the snap-to-grid function on or off
using the Grid command in the View menu.
NOTE: It is strongly recommended that you turn off snap-to-grid when editing existing labels,
especially those downloaded from the scales. This is because, if you hold down the mouse
button too long when clicking on a field, the click may be interpreted as a drag operation,
causing the field to move to the nearest grid point.
Auto-Size a Print Field (Size to Fit)
Select a print field, then select Size to Fit from the Edit menu to reset the field to its standard
size (if it has one).
The Label Editor also has an auto-size function. If you set auto-size ON for a field(in the Edit
Properties dialog), the field is automatically reset to its standard size whenever you change a
property (such as the number of digits) that affects the size.
Disable and Re-Enable Fields
Disabling a field inhibits the field from being printed on the label without deleting the field from
the label. Disabled fields can be re-enabled by the procedure described below.
In general, you should not need to use this feature other than to delete unused fields. The
feature is provided for backward-compatibility with Ishida label formats.
To disable a field, select the print field, then select Disable Field from the Edit menu.
To edit the disabled fields, select Edit Disabled Fields from the Edit menu. A dialog appears
listing the currently disabled fields. (The Edit Disabled Fields command appears dimmed if
there are no disabled fields in the label.) You can delete and edit (re-enable) fields using the
dialog.
Sub-Labels
A single Ishida label format can be used to define more than one label. In Label Editor, these
are called sub-labels. The fields for each sub-label are defined in the same label format and
the scale selects the correct fields to print based on the type of label being printed.
Unfortunately, this can result in many overlapping fields when the format is displayed in the
Label Editor, making the label format difficult to edit. To solve this problem, you can
selectively display only those fields that belong to a specified sub-label. The Edit Properties
dialog defines the sub-labels to which a field belongs. Use the Sub-Labels command in the
View menu (or the buttons at the righthand end of the toolbar) to select which sub-label to
display.
NOTE: The sub-label settings for a label format are only stored in Label Editor. The settings
are set to default values when a label format is received from the scales (all fields assigned to
all sub-labels).