dLSoft  Newsletter – February 2005

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Contents

1. New products  and versions

2. Product Updates and bug fixes

3. Other announcements (from January)

4. Current versions and prices

5. Contact addresses

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1 NEW PRODUCTS and versions

dLSoft releases new version of its popular 2D Font Kits

dLSoft has release new versions of its 2D Barcode font kits – the Aztec Font Kit, DataMatrix Font Kit, PDF417 Font Kit and QR Code Font Kit. The new versions included fully-managed-code components for .NET and Java classes

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

dLSoft release libraries for Mac OS-X

dLSoft is pleased to announce a number of new products to provide support for Mac OS-X developers.

The following new products are now available for download on our web site:

 

Universal 1D Barcode Font Kit for Mac OS-X
Datamatrix Font Kit for Mac OS-X
PDF417 Font Kit for Mac OS-X
Code QR Font Kit for Mac OS-X

dLSoft releases Really Simple Barcode for PC and Mac

dLSoft has release a simple, low-cost barcode creation and label printing program for both Mac and PC platforms. See Really Simple Barcodes

Prices are shown on our published price list at http://downloads.dlsoft.com/testware/pplist.htm and testware versions may be donwloaded from our web site at www.dlsoft.com/downloads

 

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2 Product updates and bug fixes

All Active Barcode Components have been marked as “Safe for Initialising”, to avoid popup messages from MS Office 2003 when documents containing the components are opened.

 

The following products supporting Datamatrix barcodes have been updated to permit the largest possible size Datamatrix symbo to be created:

Active Barcode Component – DataMatrix
Active Barcode Component – 2D Universal
Barcode 2D IMG Server for IIS
Browser Barcode - Datamatrix
dBarcode DLL – Datamatrix
dBarcode DLL – 2D Universal
dBarcode-2D Developers Kit
dBarcode-2k
dLabel-2k
2Index-2k

 

The Labels.NET range and the AnyLabels application have be updated to prevent a dancing dialog appearing during long print runs.

 

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

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3 Other announcements (from January issue)

3.1  New products – dLSoft support QR Code

dLSoft is pleased to announce a number of new products to provide QR Code barcodes. QR Code is becoming increasingly popular because of the decision by some mobile phone manufactures to include QR Code recognition in their phones.

 

The following new products are now available for download on our web site:

 

Active Barcode Component – QR

Browser Barcode - QR

dBarcode DLL - QR
dBarcode.NET - QR
dBarcode Java Class – QR

A new version (2.5) of the dLSoft Barcode 2D IMG Server for IIS has been release, and this adds support for QR codes to the 6 other 2D types already supported.

 

Prices are shown on our published price list at http://downloads.dlsoft.com/testware/pplist.htm

 

3.2 Product updates and bug fixes

An updated version of dBarcode.NET 1D Universal has been release. The new version adds support for Code B, Code 11, ITF-6 and ITF-14 barcodes.

 

An updated version of the Universal Barcode Font kit has been released. The new version adds a .NET component and a Java Class to the DLL, OCX and UFL already included in the kit.

 

dBarcode.NET and Java Class components that support Extended Code 93 have been modified to fix a bug in the display of check digits.

 

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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E-mail:
DLSoft@DLSoft.com
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http://www.dlsoft.com/