dLSoft Newsletter – July-August 2006

Contents

1. Product updates

2. Discontinued products

3. Recent_announcements_(from April)

4. Current versions and prices

5. Contact addresses

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1. Product updates

 

The following application products and devloper components have been updated to add support for the USPS OneCode postal barcode:

 

Applications
AnyLabels v 2.6
Barcode Macros for Office v 4.1
dBarcode, dBarcode-2k and dLabel-2k v 6.6

 

Developer products
Active Barcode Component 1D Universal, v 4.1
dBarcode DLL 1D Universal, (32 and 64 bit versions) v 4.1
dBarcode .NET 1D Universal, v 2.51
dBarcode 1D Developers Kit v 7.6
dBarcode Java Class 1D Universal, v 1.21
Labels.NET (1D and 2D versions) v 2.3
Universal Barcode Font Kit

 

dBarcode.NET 2D Universal has been updated to correct a bug in the size of the units used for borders around the barcode symbol.

 

Really Simple Barcodes for PC has been updated to correct a bug in the sequence numbering when odd numbers of duplicates are to be printed.

 

The four 2D Font Kits (Aztec, Datamatrix, PDF417 and QR Code) have had their .NET components updated to provide .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0 versions.

 

The dBarcode.NET 2D components for CE have been updated to include the Datamatrix and MicroPDF support for industry standard macros.

 

Testware versions are available from our web site. Users of the earlier versions may upgrade under our normal terms.

 

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2 Discontinued products

 

The following products are no longer in demand and were removed from our list of products at the end of June 2006. In each case the functionality offered by the discontinued product remains available in the corresponding 1D Universal product:

 

Browser Barcode 39/93

Browser Barcode 128

Browser Barcode EAN/UPC

Browser Barcode I-25

 

Barcode Font Code B

Barcode Font Code 11

 

Existing licenced users will be able to download to most recent release of a discontinued product from our archive site and should e-mail support@dlsoft.com for details.

 

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3 Recent announcements (from June issue)

 

A large number of products have been updated over the last two months, including

all Active Barcode Components,
all dBarcode DLLs, (32 and 64 bit versions)
all dBarcode .NET components,
all Java Classes,
all 2D Font Kits (PC versions).
Barcode Macros for Office, dBarcode and dLabel 

 

The reasons for the updates are outlined below:

 

The Chinese Postal barcode type has been added to to all 1D universal products and the applications Barcode Macros for Office, dLabel and dBarcode.

 

The dBarcode .NET components are now supplied with components compatible with the .NET Framework version 1.1 and 2.0, the component installed being selected by the developer at install time.

 

The dBarcode DLLs and dBarcode 32 Developer Kit now contain a function to permit barcodes to be rendered on low resolution printers using bars that are an integer number of pixels in width.

 

The 2D Font kits now contain sample Word documents illustrating the use of the fonts in mail merge applications.

 

A bug in our Datamatrix encoding algorithm resulted in high ASCII (>127) characters being displaced by 1 character.

 

A bug in our MicroPDF 417 alogorithm prevented MicroPDF barcodes containing the standard macro header for decoding correctly on scanners manufactured by Symbol (although those manufactured by Hand-Held Products and MetroLogic were not effected). A related bug also prevented the encoding in binary mode of less than 6 bytes.

 

For a complete list of release dates and version numbers for the products updated please see the link on the sales page of our web site www.dLSoft.com/sales

 

Testware versions are available from our web site. Users of the earlier versions may upgrade under our normal terms.

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4 Current versions and prices of dLSoft Products

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

 

Please do not use any older links.

 

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5 Contact addresses and internet sites

e-mail: DLSOFT@DLSOFT.COM
Phone: 020 8559 0049  - International +44 20 8559 0049
Fax:   020 8559 0178  - International +44 20 8559 0178


Our main web site is at: www.dlsoft.com

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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PO Box 9, Buckhurst Hill, Essex IG9 5BE, UK
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