3. Recent_announcements_(from
December)
4. Current versions
and prices
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dLSoft is
pleased to announce a number of product
updates which have resulted from customer requests during the last quarter of
2005.
1.1 Labels.NET components
and AnyLabels (version 2.2)
dLSoft is please to
announce the release of version 2.2 of
its labelling components for .NET, and the AnyLabels labelling application.
The new versions
allow a large number of shapes to be added to labels and filled with user
defined colours or with a selection of hatchings. Shape elements may have
different shapes for foreground and background and shaped backgrounds may be
used for text elements. The designer windows of these product now offer
traditional drop-down menus as an alternative to the pop-up menus provided with
earlier versions.
These additions
greatly enhance the utility of the products. Testware versions are available
from our web site. Users of the earlier versions may upgrade under our normal
terms.
1.2 Datamatrix barcode components
Several industrial
users have requested that we allow our components to generate fixed sized
Datamatrix symbols. So we have. The following products have been modified to
enable the number of columns in a Datamatrix barcode to be specified as an
alternative to specifying the security level:
dBarcode .NET 2D
Universal (v 2.2)
dBarcode .NET
Datamatrix (v 2.2)
dBarcode .DLL 2D
Universal (v 4.3)
dBarcode .DLL
Datamatrix (v 4.3)
dBarcode-2D
Developers Kit (v 7.3)
Active Barcode
Component 2D Universal (v 4.3)
Active Barcode
Component Datamatrix (v 4.3)
Datamatrix Font Kit
(v 4.3)
1.3 PDF417 barcode components
We have also been
asked to support the Truncated variant of PDF417. So we have added this to the following
components:
dBarcode .NET 2D
Universal (v 2.2)
dBarcode .NET PDF417
(v 2.2)
dBarcode .DLL 2D
Universal (v 4.3)
dBarcode .DLL PDF417
(v 4.3)
dBarcode-2D
Developers Kit (v 7.3)
Active Barcode
Component 2D Universal (v 4.3)
Active Barcode
Component PDF417 (v 4.3)
PDF417 Font Kit (v
4.3)
Testware versions
are available from our web site. Users of the earlier versions may upgrade
under our normal terms.
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All .NET
components are now distributed with .NET assemblies for the .NET Framework v
1.1 and with 32/64 bit assemblies for Framework 2.0.
All
products supporting Japan Postal Code have been updated to fix a bug in the
checkdigit algorithm.
All Active
Barcode Components have been updated to fix a problem in creating bitmap images
of rotated barbodes.
The
dBarcode Java Classes have been updated to fix a bug in the sample servlets provided
with the classes. The dBarcode Java Class PDF417 also had a bug fix applied
to solve a problem that arose when 44 consecutive digits were provided as data.
So many
products are affected by the above changes that they are not listed here. The
new version numbers and release dates are shown at
http://downloads.dlsoft.com/testware/versions.htm
Testware
versions are available from our web site. Users of the earlier versions may
upgrade under our normal terms.
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3.1 dBarcode.NET components
Version 2
dLSoft is
please to announce the release of
version 2 of its dBarcode.NET components. The new versions are fully
serialisable, support mirror-image barcodes and are compatible with Visual
Studio 2003 and 2005.
The
following version 2 components are available:
dBarcode
.NET 1D Universal
dBarcode
.NET 128
dBarcode
.NET 39/90
dBarcode
.NET EAN/UCC
dBarcode
.NET ITF
dBarcode
.NET 2D Universal
dBarcode .NET
Aztec
dBarcode
.NET Code 49/Codablock
dBarcode
.NET Datamatrix
dBarcode
.NET Maxicode
dBarcode
.NET PDF417
dBarcode
.NET QR Code
dBarcode
.NET RSS
3.2 Really Simple Barcodes Version
2 for Windows
dLSoft is
please to announce the release of Really Simple Barcodes Version 2.0 for
Windows. The new version is a .NET based product with a new user interface and
can generate barcodes as pictures or font-based barcodes and print simple or
serialised barcode labels.
Really
Simple Barcodes for Mac OS-X will NOT be updated until new Intel-based Macs are
available.
3.3 Other Product updates
All
products supporting the DataMatrix barcode type have been updated to provide
support for Text Element Identifiers according to ISO 15434, ATA SPEC 2000 and Milstd 130.
The 2D
versions of Active Barcode Components and dBarcode DLLs now support the option
to generate mirror image barcodes.
All 1D
versions of Active Barcode Components and dBarcode DLLs now supported longer
barcodes for the barcode types that permit variable bar width ratios (ie. Code
39 and 2/5 types).
The
Universal Barcode Font Kit Help file has been updated.
So many
products are affected by the above changes that they are not listed here. The
new version numbers and release dates are shown at
http://downloads.dlsoft.com/testware/versions.htm
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
Please do
not use any older links.
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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.
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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