Genesis R&D Manual

Printing and Exporting Labels

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Last updated: Sept 20, 2021 by Jill Hohnstein (Unlicensed)
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Print

  1. With the Label window displayed, go to the Home ribbon.
  2. Click Print.
  3. A basic Print dialog window will open prompting you to select a printer. Available printers depend on what you have set up on your computer From this window, you can adjust printer settings by clicking Properties.
  4. The Print Preview option will let you see how the printed report will look.

Print to PDF

If you will be sharing this document electronically, use this option. Your label page will print as a pdf document that can be shared in an email or uploaded to your website. Note: Using the option WILL NOT output the label itself as a vector. Instead, it will be a static, uneditable image within the PDF document. To create an editable vector of the label, see the Print as vector instructions below.

Print the Label as a vector image

With Genesis R&D, you can print the Label as a vector image by using the included pdf creator. Your vector Label can be opened as an editable file in Adobe Illustrator or other vector editing program.

  1. Right-click on the Label
  2. Choose Print to Vector
  3. Select Nova PDF as the printer
  4. Click OK. Your Label can now be opened and edited like any other vector image.

 

A Label can be exported as an image file for modification in other programs. When exporting, select To File to save the Label for use later  (importing into a document, opening in a graphics program, etc.), and select To Clipboard to immediately paste it into a word processing document (MS Word, etc).

Export a Label as an Image to File

  1. With your Label open, click Label Report
  2. Select As Image>To File.
  3. Browse to choose where to save the file.
  4. Select File type.
  5. Click OK.

Export a Label as an Image to the Clipboard

  1. With your Label open, click Label Report
  2. Select As Image>To Clipboard.
  3. Open a document in another program.
  4. Go to Edit>Paste in that program.

Export a Label as Text to File

  1. With your Label open, click Label Report
  2. Select As Text>To File.
  3. Browse to where you want to save the file.
  4. Click Save. It will be saved as a .txt file.

You can open this in any text editor. The data will be presented in tab-delimited text, with each line corresponding to a line in the label, like this:

Export a Label as Text to the Clipboard

  1. With your Label open, click Label Report
  2. Select As Text>To Clipboard.
  3. Open a document in another program.
  4. Go to Edit>Paste in that program.