Upgrading Documents from V10 to V11

Upgrading Documents from V10 to V11

You have a situation where your documents were created with V10.8.4 (or earlier), and you are planning to update to V11. However, the barcode objects from V10.8.x are not compatible with V11. In V10.8 (and partially in V10.9 as well), we used ActiveX Controls for the barcodes, but in V11, we use EMF pictures instead.

In V11, you can insert a new bar code anytime, but what happens to the existing documents? The answer lies in the Conversion Wizard in 10.9. In case you want to upgrade the documents too, follow these steps:

1. Install V10.9.5 (the license key is the same as before with 10.8 or earlier)
2. Open the documents with the barcode(s)
3. Confirm the Conversion Wizard popup with Yes: The document will be scanned, and the Barcode ActiveX Controls will be converted to a EMF images.
4. Test the document / barcodes: Verify the size, barcode type, data, and if mail merge or linked-to-cell barcodes are updated as desired.
EMF barcodes are updated only during printing and (if enabled in the add-in options) during saving. After the conversion, barcodes (ActiveX^®) programmed in VBA will no longer work with EMF images. For VBA programming, we offer the TBarCode SDK!
5. Save the document.

Repeat steps 2 - 5 for every document where you want to access barcodes with V11. Once the documents are updated/migrated in V10, uninstall V10 and install V11 (which requires a new license key).

The “migrated” documents can also be opened later with V11. If the documents are not migrated, the barcode becomes inactive and must be inserted again in V11. This is due to the technology change (previously, ActiveX controls were used, but now we use EMF images).