Using BarTender Sample Documents

Because designing templates on your own may be time-consuming, you can use a number of sample documents that are installed with the BarTender software. You can use these documents as a starting point and modify them to your own requirements. If a sample document is similar to what you want to design, then you do not need to start from scratch.

When you view the sample documents in BarTender, you can easily discover the many features and capabilities of the application. After you load a document, you can examine the various dialog settings to determine what features and customization options are available.

When you want to use a sample document as a starting point for your own design, you must save a copy of the document to a location outside the sample documents folder. This process ensures that the original sample document is not edited and is available for future reference.

ClosedTo create a copy of a sample document

  1. On the File menu, click New. Alternatively, click on the main toolbar.

  2. In the New Document wizard, select Select template from library, and then click Select to open the Template Manager dialog.

  3. Click Sort button to open the Sort menu where you can specify how the templates are sorted, what measurement the dimensions are displayed in, and the number of templates per page.

  4. To filter the templates displayed in the dialog, click Add Filter. Alternatively, click and select Add from the menu.

  5. To search for a specific template, enter all or part of the template's name in the Search field and press Enter on your keyboard.

    • To clear the search results, click X in the Search field.

  6. Use the controls at the bottom of the Template Manager dialog to move through the dialog's pages.

  7. Click the template you want to use, or alternately click Select on the template's image, to exit the Template Manager dialog and display the document in the New Document wizard.

  8. Click Next and specify the printer to use with the document.

  9. Click Next and review the document's settings.

  10. Click Finish. A new document is created in BarTender using the settings you specified.

  11. When you want to save your copy of the sample document, click Save on the File menu, and then use the Save As dialog to browse to a location that is outside the sample documents folder, such as the BarTender Documents folder. Then, click Save.