2. Recent_announcements_(from September 2007)
3. Current versions and prices
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A number of product changes are announced for 2008. Several older products are dropped (mainly because they have been replaced by newer technologies) and some product families have been consolidated into a smaller number of products.
The following products are no longer available:
Browser Barcodes (all
versions) (old technology)
Barcode Server for
IIS (old technology)
dBarcode
Standard edition (superseded by Really Simple Barcodes)
dBarcode.NET Code 49/Codablock
(no demand)
The following members of the Active Barcode Components, dBarcode DLLs and dBarcode.NET families have been retired:
Code 39/93
Code 128
EAN/UPC
ITF
And replaced by:
Standard (which handles the popular industrial barcodes Code 39/93/128, Interleaved 2 of 5 and Matrix 2 of 5)
GS1 (which handles the popular trading barcodes EAN/8/13/14, UPC-A/E, GS1-128, SSCC and ITF)
We will continue to support the discontinued products until 2010 or offer one of the replacement products to existing customers who wish to upgrade within 1 year of purchase.
A new product to handle GS1 Composite barcodes has been added to each of the dBarcode DLLs and dBarcode.NET families
We are also pleased to announce the release of Really Simple Barcode for Mac OS-X and Really Simple Barcode for Linux, which join the popular Really Simple Barcode for PC as low-end barcode creators for those platforms.
Testware versions are available from our web site. Users of the earlier versions may upgrade under our normal terms. Please note that the serial numbers for most products have changed with the new versions and users who have purchase since January 2007 may upgrade free of charge by e-mailing their existing serial to support@dLSoft.com and requesting a new serial number.
Our prices have been unchanged since April 2005 and in fact most prices have not changed since 2000; unfortunately we have had to increase our prices to meet the increasing demands of the taxmen, power companies and employees. In general it is the developer licence versions that have increased in price, while some single-computer licence have decreased.
Our new price list is now available on the sales page of our website.
Most of our Windows products have received significant updates, including the addition of the new Infomail Barcode A to the 1D Universal products and the inclusion of the size information in files saved as PNG types. The .NET components have been updated to AllowPartiallyTrustedCallers in .NET-speak, and the Java classes have been updated to allow graphic file resolution to be specified. Really Simple Barcodes now allows barcode settings and label layouts to be saved into templates.
Testware versions are available from our web site. Users of the earlier versions may upgrade under our normal terms.
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dLSoft is pleased to announce the addition of dLSoft TouchTil to its range of business software. TouchTil is a simple to use product designed for use at the point of sale for restaurants, take-aways, ticket offices, service establishments, and many more, using a touch screen or pointing device. Prints bills, receipts, delivery labels, tickets, etc and generates end-of-day and end-of-period reports. Suitable for use with touch screen monitors and receipt printers, including those with cash drawers.
30-day trial versions may be downloaded from our web site and may be provided by dealers to end users; the Help system is also available online or the zipped Help file may be downloaded from the Help centre.
Potential customers must satisfy themselves that the system is suitable for their needs by using the trial version before a product activation code will be assigned.
All .NET products supporting 2D barcodes have been upgraded to allow the encoding of Unicode characters. .NET products supporting QR Code now support Kanji mode.
.NET products supporting Code 128 have been modified to permit the user to control subtype changes.
.NET products support UPC-A and UPC-E barcode have had a bug correction to prevent an error when a UPC-E symbol is generated immediately after a UPC-A symbol.
A bug in the Maxicode encoding algorithm which generated an exception rather than an error return when attempting to create a Maxicode symbol with less than 5 data characters has been corrected.
The following products are effected by one or more of the above:
AnyLabels v3.1
dBarcode.NET - 1D Universal v2.8
dBarcode.NET - 2D Universal v2.8
dBarcode.NET Aztec v2.8
dBarcode.NET Datamatrix v2.8
dBarcode.NET Maxicode v2.7
dBarcode.NET PDF417 v2.8
dBarcode.NET QR-Code v2.8
dBarcode.NET 128 v2.7
dBarcode.NET EAN/UPC v2.7
Labels.NET v3.2
Labels.NET-2D v3.3
And the .NET components included with:
Aztec Font Kit
Datamatrix Font Kit
PDF417 Font Kit
QR Code Font Kit
Universal Font Kit
AnyLabels has also been updated to allow barcode scan database searches to be carried out with or without the barcodes check digit.
Testware versions are available from our web site. Users of the earlier versions may upgrade under our normal terms.
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A list of current versions and release dates is maintained at:
http://downloads.dlsoft.com/testware/versions.htm
and a pdf
version at
http://downloads.dlsoft.com/testware/versions.pdf
The current retail price list is also available from:
http://downloads.dlsoft.com/testware/pplist.htm
and a pdf
version at
http://downloads.dlsoft.com/testware/pplist.pdf
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e-mail: DLSOFT@DLSOFT.COM
Phone: 0870 803 1212 - International +44
870 803 1212
Fax: 0870 803 2312 - International +44 870 803 2312
Our main web site is at: www.
and this contains links to our support site and international mirrors
Testware versions of any of our products can be obtained from any of these locations.
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