dLSoft Newsletter – September 2007

Contents

1. Products & updates

2. Recent_announcements_(from July)

3. Current versions and prices

4. Contact addresses

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1 Products & updates

1.1 dLSoft releases TouchTil ePos software

 

dLSoft is please 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.

1.2 Other product updates

 

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 barcode’s 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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2 Recent announcements (from July issue)

2.1 dLSoft releases Point of Sale software

 

dLSoft is please to announce the release of dLSoft Point of Sale, a simple to use product designed for use at the point of sale using a simple barcode scanner. Prints receipts, tracks stock, prints barcode labels, orders, invoices, 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.

 

2.2 Other product updates

 

The application AnyLabels and the components Labels.NET and Labels.NET 2D have been updated to provided the labels designers with functions to align and resize blocks containing multiple elements.

 

The dBarcode.NET 1D products (Code 128, Code 39, EAN/UPD, ITF and 1D Universal) have been updated to allow the dimensional units to be serialised.

 

The Delphi code samples provided with each of the dBarcode-2D DLL products have been updated to correct a bug in converting from Delphi strings to C strings.

 

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

 

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3 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

 

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4 Contact addresses and internet sites

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.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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DL Technology
PO Box 9, Buckhurst Hill, Essex IG9 5BE, UK
E-mail: dLSoft@dLSoft.com
Web site: http://www.dLSoft.com/