Tape Label Studio Releases

• Updated light and dark theme handling
• Added theme option to follow OS setting
• Updated themes to support MaterialDesignInXAML v5
• Fixed backgroud colors in font selection dialog

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• Migrated to .NET 8
• Added edit/remove color buttons to ColorStylesEditor’s content and position lists
• Improved fallback and other color section in ColorStylesEditor
• Removed display of printer calibration area in BorderStylesEditor preview
• Fixed an issue that prevented news links from being opened from the welcome page

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• Fixed a bug in update routine that lead to downloading corrupted update files
• Fixed a bug where the readonly state of borderstyles wasn’t honored in the first place when selecting a color
• Fixed a bug that prevented using drag and drop in LabelDescriptions editor
• Added “New” buttons to BorderStyles, ColorStyles, Templates, InfoLabels and LabelDescriptions editors
• Logging to Windows event log has been removed and replaced with logging to a file

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• Fixed a bug in home and standard editions that occured when no label description was selected
• Added barcode height property in templates editor, which is indirect proportional to textbox height property
• Fixed a zoom bug in templates editor
• Added 100% zoom button
• Completely redesigned border styles editor
• Added colors to border styles
• Alignments can now be used in templates editor to test changes made in the template

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• Completely redesigned color picker based on https://github.com/PixiEditor/ColorPicker/
• Added eyedropper color picker again as known from Tape Label Studio 2
• Fixed a bug in Border Styles Editor where changing a border corner was applied after restart only
• Fixed preview refresh in Color Styles Editor after changing settings
• Fixed preview refresh in Border Styles Editor after changing settings
• Fixed a bug that prevented logs from being collected correctly
• Added new file management for resource files, allowing merging multiple files into one
• Improved startup performance by reducing number of resource files from 50+ to 6
• Redesigned custom text handling, which is now LabelDescriptions supporting text and images
• Fixed display of selected language in MetaData dialog
• Improved column stretching in MetaData dialog
• Fixed a bug in trial version where the trial overlay was not printed correctly after changing margins or start position
• After editing a style/template/infolabel TLS always asked to save as a new file on exit; this has been fixed
• InfoLabel now supports images

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• Fixed initial size of First Label dialog
• Fixed initial size of Mediatype selection dialog
• Fixed double click on items in Mediatype selection dialog
• Fixed initial size of Alignment selection dialog
• Fixed initial size of ColorStyle selection dialog
• Fixed initial size of BorderStyle selection dialog
• Improved settings ui in Templates editor, including font and papersize previews
• Fixed double click on items in font selection dialogs
• Fixed a bug that occured when aborting the download of an update
• Fixed a bug with running an update after download
• Added input validation to Template editor fields
• Fixed a bug with zero length labels in Templates editor
• Added input validation to BorderStyles editor fields
• Dates in news, last used documents, license dialog, etc. now honor the users regional settings
• License dialog now shows expiration date of free updates
• Welcome page has been redesigned to use adjustable widgets

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• Fixed a bug with deleting the selected message in messages window
• Added support for new license pdf documents, that can be opened by or pasted into TLS to apply the license
• Migrated to .NET 6
• Added support for Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022
• Added Danish language pack
• Added Greek language pack
• Added Hungarian language pack
• Added Ukrainian language pack
• Added Hindi language pack
• Added Hebrew language pack
• Improved accessibility in language selection with country flags

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• Migrated to .NET 5
• Tape Label Studio is now 64 bit only, 32 bit is not supported anymore
• Added snack bar in the main window where notifications are displayed for a short time
• Added messages window, where all notifications can be read

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• Added possibility to save feedback as a file to send it manually
• Fixed a bug where the app crashed when a document couldn’t be printed
• Fixed a bug where urls couldn’t be opened with the default browser any more (breaking change in net core 3)
• Fixed a bug where an empty list of labels to be added in advanced mode lead to an error
• Fixed a bug in alignment selection preview after using template editor
• Fixed a bug where buttons disappeared with low Windows resolution / high scaling options set
• Fixed a bug where the button in printer calibration selection dialog was disabled when the list was empty

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• Fixed an error that prevented the export of labels as a pdf document
• Updated all languages
• The error dialog has been replaced by a ‘send feedback’ dialog in the main menu
• Fixed a bug where not all fields were resetted while creating a new document in automatic mode
• Fixed text color in settings dialog while using dark mode
• Made most dialogs resizable
• Fixed a color-based-on-content bug when using barcode-vertical-alignments
• Fixed a bug where one character wasn’t displayed when using barcode-vertical-alignments

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• Migrated to .NET Core 3.1
• Fixed a bug where associated file types did not load properly on double click
• Fixed a bug with custom non-mediatype templates, resulting in an app crash
• Fixed signature verification for all tls files

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• Upgraded to .Net Framework 4.7.2 fixing incompatibilities with TLS 1.2
• This is a maintenance release only. It does not include an installer. Please read the file readme.txt in the package.
• Requires .Net Framework 4.7.2 to be installed
• This is the last release for LTO Barcode Label Generator – there will be no further support

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• Upgraded to .Net Framework 4.7.2 fixing incompatibilities with TLS 1.2
• This is a maintenance release only. It does not include an installer. Please read the file readme.txt in the package.
• Requires .Net Framework 4.7.2 to be installed
• This is the last release for Tape Label Studio 2 – there will be no further support

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• Upgraded to .Net Framework 4.7.2 fixing incompatibilities with TLS 1.2
• This is a maintenance release only. It does not include an installer. Please read the file readme.txt in the package.
• Requires .Net Framework 4.7.2 to be installed
• This is the last release for Tape Label Studio 1 – there will be no further support

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• Redesigned InfoLabel editor
• Added preview when dragging labels in advanced mode
• Static preview of alignments in selection window has been replaced by a dynamic one
• The code for drawing the barcode has been optimized, especially stretching the barcode works as expected now

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• Fixed a bug where the infolabel was not updated after changing page layout settings
• The selected printer stays selected during an application session now
• Added printer calibration. Printer calibration values can be used in Advanced Mode, Automatic Mode and in the Templates Editor
• to display the physical margins of any calibrated printer
• Fixed a bug where mediatype border color was used to draw the custom text rect
• Fixed a bug in color styles editor where barcode and mediatype colors couldn’t be changed
• Added keyboard shortcuts to the main tools
• Fixed a bug where the preview in templates editor was not refresh when changing the paper size
• Fixed a bug where the name of a style was empty when there was no metadata for the current nor english language available
• Fixed a bug where previously saved automatic mode documents could not been opened from welcome page
• Added a ‘file not found’ hint to the last used documents section
• Fixed a bug with wrongly formatted date in info label editor

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• Completely redesigned from scratch using Windows Presentation Foundation now
• Application uses material design
• New json based file formats for color styles, border styles, templates, infolabels, etc.
• Introducing InfoLabel Editor
• Light and Dark application themes available
• Many different machine translated languages available
• Many more features, download the trial to try them all

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• Fixed a bug where labels with more than 6 characters were not displayed correctly when using “barcode horizontal” alignment options
• Fixed a bug in templates editor where the suffix font wasn’t applied correctly
• Improved InfoLabel dialog, making it easier to add variables
• Fixed a bug that prevented the last characted from being retrieved from an opened configuration file
• Fixed a bug in the activation process that occured when a proxy server is used
• Fixed a bug in first label config, preventing the user from changing a character
• Fixed a bug in first label config, preventing the user from properly navigating from one character to another
• Fixed a bug in PageLayoutDialog which prevented the user from providing negative offsets

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• Fixed several bugs in update detection and download functions
• Added support for diagnostic labels which have a space in the label
• Added a diagnostic labels color scheme
• Fixed a bug that prevented automatic refresh when editing a labels text in advanced mode

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• Fixed a bug with reading meta data from v1 style files
• Fixed a bug with displaying to many items in the color styles, border styles and templates boxes at once
• Color styles, border styles and templates lists are sorted by name now, before they weren’t sorted at all
• Meta data can now be easily added to color styles, border styles and templates

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• Fixed a bug in Settings dialog where all sections where named Text
• Fixed a bug in InfoLabel dialog where the current language pack wasn’t used at all
• Fixed a bug that occured when multiple language files with the same iso code existed
• Created new German translation
• Fixed a bug with utf-8 language files
• Fixed a bug with tooltips in language files
• When changing the language not all parts of TLS applied the change
• Fixed a bug in ColorStylesEditor where default colors were not applied correctly
• Fixed a bug with applying language pack in BorderStyleDialog and PaperSizeDialog
• Fixed layout of BorderCornerStyleDialog
• Added PageLayoutDialog, moved PageLayout settings to new dialog
• Added label templates for 3592 tapes
• Added links to easily buy labels online

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• This is a BETA release. Please do not use this release in production environments. However, you are free to try.

• Using .NET Framework 4.6, which is a requirement now
• Redesigned internal data structure giving more flexibility, stability, enhanced speed and less code to maintain
• Added possibility to add labels from any text file containing labels in advanced mode
• Improved overall speed of TLS using parallelization and multithreading
• Advanced mode with many labels is a lot faster now when changing only a few labels
• Removed the ultraslow list view from advanced mode and replaced it by a faster one
• Renewed saving and loading of labels at shutdown and startup by a new/save/load style of file handling giving the possibility to save your work anywhere
• Redesigned info label which is now a part of your current label document and not of the program settings anymore
• Introduced a new file type .tls which saves your work on a label document and its settings
• Added Delete button to Colorstyles, Borderstyles and Template Editors
• Redesigned template files offering more flexibility and functionality, old template files will still work
• Media type can be now be changed freely in automatic mode. Double click opens a list of available media types
• Removed external zip library and switched to .NET 4.5 zip archive
• Added support for continous paper
• Started implementing support for TapeManager

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• Fixed a bug with counting of maximum labels to be created
• Fixed a bug with border styles not being correctly loaded in border styles editor
• Fixed a bug where color styles, border styles and templates could only be exported as pdf files
• Fixed a bug with infolabel not being correctly drawn when saved to pdf
• Added Template name to infolabel
• When saving pdf files, Tape Label Studio now fills meta data of the saved file
• Switched setup to msi package

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• Fixed a bug where the character V was missing in some color styles and the color styles editor

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• Fixed a bug with vertical alignments not being drawn correctly
• Added template editor
• Changed antialiasing options from yes/no to use aa, use aa but not for barcode and don’t use aa
• Fixed a bug where undo did not work in colorstyles and borderstyles editors
• Added info label option
• Added select all, select non in advanced mode context menu
• Changed add label dialog in advanced mode so that multiple separated labels can be pasted

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• Fixed a bug with taskbar progress in pre Windows 7 environments
• Fixed a bug with the preview of color and border styles
• Minor fixes in language files
• Fixed a bug in advanced mode where the user could rename labels with invalid characters

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• Added “Check for updates” button to the “send error report” dialog
• Fixed a bug where offsets where not saved/loaded correctly
• Fixed a bug where custom text box was not enabled after registration
• Fixed a bug where custom text has not been saved on exit
• Updated autosave on exit so that all label settings are automatically saved on exit and loaded on startup
• The page status field did not show the page number again when it lost the focus, this has been fixed
• Fixed a bug where the advanced mode has not been unlocked even when the program has been activated
• Added Settings window with some general settings. Merged proxy settings and registration there
• Added automatic check for updates
• Added updated German language file

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• Maintenance release
• Fixed label validation
• Some fixes regarding unhandled exceptions
• Removed wait time in about dialog on program start

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• Initial release

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• slightly redesigned user interface
• added advanced view, to edit every single label and its properties
• label list from advanced view can be exported and imported
• added Digits section to color scheme files allowing position dependent colors
• added proxy option to registration and update check
• switched to .NET Framework 4.0 Client Profile
• application icon has been edited to support “larger” views in explorer

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• added antialiasing option and switched antialiasing off by default
• added CU, C1, C2, C3, C4 and C5 cleaning cartridge media types
• templates removed from source and moved to external files (not editable)
• fixed an error where mediatype was not applied to barcode

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• completly redesigned way to enter barcode – specify the first label, choose your fixed and
• variable characters per doubleclick and specify number of labels to be printed
• Letter Avery 6571 / 6577 labels are verified now
• Letter Avery 6571 / 6577: made barcode bigger to match problems with some tape libraries
• A4 Avery 3420 / Herma 4459: made barcode bigger to match problems with some tape libraries
• all letters are always uppercase now
• limited characters to those that are supported in the resulting barcode
• added checksum support for those tape libraries needing a checksum character at the end of the barcode
• added “barcode only” alignment option
• added color schemes – you can create more / change existing by editing the xml files in
• the colorschemes folder of LTO Barcode Label Generator
• added language support, see languages folder to create new language files

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• added beta support for Avery 6571 / 6577 labels – please verify if you successfully used this template
• alignment option box now shows a preview of selectable styles
• added start position option to choose where to print the first label
• added additional media types
• fixed status bar which did not always show the right zoom level

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• fixed background color for numerical characters when using vertical alignment options
• all dialog windows (except main window) do not show taskbar icons anymore
• added check for updates item in help menu

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• initial release

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