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Designing Labels
Working with Variable Data
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Using Contents Mask
The contents mask is very useful when you must display the input data differently on the label.
With contents mask, you can reformat the data to suit your needs. Contents Mask is available
in the Human Readable tab in bar code properties.
The mask character will be replaced by the actual data and any other used character will be
used as-is. If the current bar code value is
"AD951"
and the contents mask is
"**C - ** /*/"
the resulting output will be
"ADC - 95 /1/"
Powerful formatting structures can be defined using Contents mask, but it is only available
with bar codes that allow custom formatting of the human interpretation. You should also
make sure to print bar codes as graphics; otherwise, the contents mask is not available.
If your data contains the asterisk "*" character, then you will have to change the
default mask character to something else. It should be a unique value, not appear-
ing anywhere in the data.