dLSoft  Newsletter - October 2004

 

Contents

1. New products and product releases

2. Product updates and bug fixes

3. Other announcements (from July)

4. Current versions and prices

5. Contact addresses

 

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1 NEW PRODUCTS - dBarcode Java Classes

dLSoft started to release a series of Java classes. This month we release the following 1D classes:

dBarcode Java Class 39/93

dBarcode Java Class 128

dBarcode Java Class EAN/UPC

dBarcode Java Class ITF

dBarcode Java Class 1D Universal

 

Full details of the products and their contents are one our web site at

http://www.dlsoft.com/products/java/dbarcode_java.htm

 

Over the next two months classes for popular 2D barcodes will be added to the range.

Testware versions are available from our web site.

 

2 Product updates and bug fixes

 

All products supporting DataMatrix have been updated (again) to correct a bug which left spurious characters after EDIFACT encodation ended on a full codeword.

 

All .NET products have been modified to allow running without requiring elevated privilege levels.

The dBarcode.NET – ITF product has been corrected – it was producing Interleaved barcode when instructed to generate Matrix 2 of 5.

The dBarcode.NET EAN/UPC and 128 products have been updated to allow the automatic checkdigit in EAN/UCC 14 barcodes to be displayed in human readable form.

The instructions for the Labels.NET products have been amended to described how to add the components to the Visual Studio Toolbax.

 

The dBarcode-2D Developers Kit has been updated so that the CodaBlock-F barcode type is not reported as Codabar.

 

As a result of the above, the following packages have been modified:

 

Active Barcode Component – DataMatrix

Active Barcode Component – 2D Universal

AnyLabels

DataMatrix Font Kit

dBarcode.NET – all versions

dBarcode DLL 2D Universal

dBarcode DLL - DataMatrix

dBarcode-2D Developers Kit

dBarcode-2k

Labels.NET – all versions

dLabel-2k Pro

dIndex-2k

 

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 July issue)

 

2.1 All dBarcode-DLL products have been updated to include functions that provide device dependent bitmap or device independent bitmap images to be placed directly on the clipboard. The Visual C/C++ 6 and Visual Basic 6 sample programs provided with the products have also been updated to demonstrate a wider range of functionality.

The dBarcode 1D DLLs now have version number 3.15 and the dBarcode 2D DLLs have version number 3.25.

 

2.2 Some of our 1D barcode products that permit variable wide/narrow bar ratios (principally for Code 39 and Interleaved 2 of 5 barcodes) were producing the correct absolute symbol width only for a bar ratio of 2:1, and were generating incorrect values for higher ratios. This has now been corrected. The following products have been updated accordingly:

Active Barcode components (all 1D versions)

dBarcode DLLs (all 1D versions)

dBarcode-32 Developers Kit

dBarcode-2k

dLabel-2k

dIndex-2k

 

2.3 Aztec and Datamatrix fonts kits: the fonts included in the kits released in April were not correctly marked as "embeddable" and so could not be embedded into pdf documents. This oversight has not been corrected.

 

2.4 The Labels.NET components have been updated to correct the size of the clocked barcode types (PostNet and RM4SCC) and to allow the record number to be specified before generating an OnLabel event.

 

Testware versions are available from our web site and retail prices are at http://www.dlsoft.com/services/data/pplist.htm  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://www.dlsoft.com/sales/versions.htm

and a pdf version at

http://www.dlsoft.com/sales/versions.pdf

 

The current retail price list is also available from the dealers site or from:

http://www.dlsoft.com/sales/pplist.htm

and a pdf version at

http://www.dlsoft.com/sales/pplist.pdf

 

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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

We also maintain an ftp site at:  ftp://ftp.dlsoft.com

which contains archives of earlier releases and additional support material, manuals, help files, etc.

Testware versions of any of our products can be obtained from any of these locations.

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