dLSoft Newsletter - January 2000 And a very happy new year to all! Contents NEW - Universal Barcode font kit announcement Recent product additions Recent updates Current versions and dates Internet sites Telephone and Fax number updates -------------------------------------- 1. New products - dLSoft is pleased to announce a new product for the new century: dLSoft Universal Barcode Font Kit Allows most 1D barcodes to be produced from a single font, using a single call to a DLL (supplied). Note this font does NOT include human readable characters. Kit includes TrueType and PostScript fonts, the translation DLL and samples for Visual Basic and Microsoft Office. A Testware version and pdf datasheet are available from our web site, and the full product is available from your dealer. 2. Recent additions to our product range Aztec Barcode Font Kit DataMatrix Font Kit PDF417 Font Kit These kits enable the relevant 2D barcodes to be created without complex programming - just a single call to the kit's DLL to produce a text string which may then be rendered in the appropriate font in any Windows system. Active Barcode Component Active 2D-Barcode Component These kits are ideal for adding 1D and 2D barcode images to Visual Basic, Delphi, and MS Office applications. The powerful single-file components do not rely on extra DLLs, such as MFCxx.DLL. They can be used as ActiveX control or as inserted objects. In situ editable or fully programmable. Testware versions and pdf datasheets are available from our web site, and the full products are available from your dealer. ------------------------------------ 3. Product updates dLabel-32, dLabel-2D and dIndex-32 have all undergone an update to fix a bug in the database exporting system. The Barcodes Help file in the above products and in dBarcode-32, dBarcode-32 Pro and dBarcode-32 DK, has been updated to reflect a modified default for code 128 sub type. The Help file alone may be downloaded from: ftp.dlsoft.com/pub/library/helps/barcodes.hlp ------------------------------------ 4. Current versions of dLSoft Products effective 1/Jan/2000 Product Version Content date Active Barcode Component 1.01 3/Dec/99 Active 2DBarcode Component 1.0 3/Dec/99 Barcode Macros 2.1 25/June/99 dBarcode-32 5.2 26/Oct/99 dBarcode-32 DK 5.2 26/Oct/99 dBarcode-2D 5.2 26/Oct/99 dBarcode-2D DK 5.2 26/Oct/99 dIndex-32 4.44 23/Dec/99 dLabel-2D 4.44 23/Dec/99 dLabel-32 4.44 23/Dec/99 dFont DK 2.0 19/March/99 Barcode fonts: dFont Helper 1.3 7/Nov/98 Code 39 1.5 18/June/99 Code 93 1.5 18/June/99 Code 128 1.5 18/June/99 Code 11 1.5 18/June/99 Codabar 1.5 18/June/99 Code B 1.5 18/June/99 EAN/UPC 1.5 18/June/99 ITF 1.5 18/June/99 MSI 1.5 18/June/99 PostNet 1.5 18/June/99 RM4SCC 1.5 18/June/99 Telepen 1.6 17/Aug/99 Aztec font kit 1.0 29/Dec/99 DataMatrix font kit 1.0 29/Dec/99 PDF417 font kit 1.0 5/Jan/2000 Universal font kit 1.0 29/Dec/99 16 bit products dIndex-16 3.33 11/Aug/98 dLabel-16 3.93 20/June/98 dBarcode-16 4.10 21/June/98 dBarcode-16 DK 4.10 21/June/98 ------------------------------------- 4. Internet sites Our web sites are: WWW.DLSOFT.COM (UK site) and WWW.BARCODE.CX (US site) and our ftp sites The dLSoft ftp download sites are FTPUS.DLSOFT.COM/ and FTPUK.DLSOFT.COM/ Latest testware versions are in the pub/testware directory and individual files in the pub/library directory. ----------------------------------- 5. Telephone and Fax numbers Our phone and fax numbers are now: Phone: 020 8559 0049 - International +44 20 8559 0049 Fax: 020 8502 9037 - International +44 20 8502 9037 Please will you ensure that your records are updated accordingly. -------------------------------------- End To be removed from the mailing list at any time just e-mail to IMAILSRV@DLSOFT.COM with the message UNSUBSCRIBE DLNEWS your_email_address as the message body. Previous issues of the newsletter may be obtained from the link on the What's New page on our web site. DL Technology PO Box 9, Buckhurst Hill, Essex IG9 5BE, UK Fax: (44) (0) 20 8502 9037 E-mail: DLTech@DLSoft.com Web: www.dlsoft.com