Truncation Dialog

When reading information from a database, you may not want an the entire contents of a database field to be read into an object on the template. For example, you may have a database field that contains leading or trailing spaces before or after the desired data. This can be caused by converting from one database format to another or from a database to a text file. Since BarTender doesn’t know whether the spaces are necessary or not, they will be treated as data at print-time, increasing the size of a barcode.

The Truncation dialog, accessible from the Transforms tab of the Data Source property page, allows you to specify which characters to keep or remove.

Truncation