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2005-09-08:
* An options parser was added to the renderer.
* Each renderer was modified to pass a copy of its user-defined options to the renderer.
* A new user-definable option called inkspread that reduces the width of the bars was added to the renderer.
2005-08-08:
* The options parser for each of the encoders was upgraded to remove the 30 character size limitation from individual options within a given option string.
2005-08-07:
* The ISBN encoder was upgraded to support the emerging ISBN-13 symbology.
2005-08-02:
* PostScript and PDF documentation is now created using the new pst-barcode LaTeX package to generate the barcode images.
2005-06-21:
* The isbnfont, isbnsize, and isbnpos options were added to allow the independant manipulation of the upper part of the human readable text within the ISBN symbology.
2005-06-09:
* A minor fix was made to the positioning of human readable text within the Code 128 symbology.
2005-06-06:
* Optional whitespace guards have been added to the human readable text of EAN barcodes.
* The position of the first character of EAN-13s has been adjusted to guard the whitespace to the left of the bars.
2005-05-10:
* The ability to allow the code to remain resident within most printer's PostScript virtual machines, until a hard reset is performed, was added.
2005-04-12:
* The default textpos for EAN-2 and EAN-5 was changed so that it is now a function of the supplied height.
* Delimiter comments were added around the encoders so that the file can be easily parsed as a template.
2005-04-09:
* Delimiters were added around individual encoders to simplify parsing.
2005-03-29:
* A bug in the calculation of Code 93 barcode length when using extended full ASCII characters was fixed.
2005-03-21:
* Support for the Royal Mail/RM4SCC symbology was added.
* A minor fix was made to the positioning of human readable text in the PostNet symbology.
2005-03-05:
* The Postnet encoder was amended to generate correctly proportioned bars.
2005-02-28:
* A bug that resulted in the incorrect generation of Code 93 check digits for data exceeding 15 characters in length was fixed.
2005-02-03:
* A user option to override the default barcode height was added.
2005-02-01:
* The option passing mechanism was improved to allow the user to override many default variables.
2005-01-25:
* Human readable text was added to the remaining encoders.
* Support for a string of options to enable or disable features of an encoder for each barcode instance was added.
2005-01-22:
* Human readable text, with an option to suppress display of the check digit, was added to Code-39, Interleaved 2 of 5, and Postnet symbologies.
* The ability to suppress human readable text to EANs, UPCs, ISBN, and all other symbologies that show text was added.
* Encoders now pass font information to the renderer.
* The encoders were restructured to prepare for the passing of switches to enable or disable features of the encoder.
2005-01-19:
* The ability to suppress checkdigit for codabar, code39, code93, and interleaved 2 of 5 symbologies was added.
2005-01-05:
* Support for Code 93 and Code 11 was added.
* A checksum was added to Code 39 and Interleaved 2 of 5.
* Incorrect generation of X human readable check-digit for ISBN was fixed.
2005-01-02:
* This release adds support for the EAN-2 and EAN-5 (the EAN/UPC add-ons) symbologies, MSI symbology, and Plessey symbology.
* The narrow:wide ratio for Code 2 of 5 has been changed.
2004-12-29:
* This release fixes the incorrect generation of Code 128 check digits.
2004-12-27:
* This release adds a code128 encoder that fully supports character alphabets A, B, and C. This allows for UCC/EAN-128 support.
* The obsolete code128b encoder has been dropped.
2004-12-24:
* This release fixes a bug in code128b where first ^ character in string of available characters should be &.
2004-12-21:
* The Supported Symbologies section of the documentation was enhanced to include samples of all the supported barcode types.
2004-12-14:
* Incorrect generation of human-readable check digits for the ISBN encoder was fixed and the documentation was updated with an example of use from within Perl.
2004-12-11:
* Support for the ISBN barcode format was added.
2004-12-09:
* Documentation is now available in PDF and HTML formats.
* The orignal .tex files are shipped in the tarball.
2004-12-07:
* Support for human readable text on the EAN and UPC formats was added.
* Redundant code was removed from the UPC-A format.
* Minor code cleanups were made.
* A mailing list and support group is now available.
2004-12-04:
* EANs and UPCs now have elongated guard bars.
* The efficiency of the renderer was improved.
* A bug that printed a tiny artifact at the bottom-left of barcodes was fixed.
* All barcodes now default to 1 inch in height with a narrow bar width of 1 pt.
2004-12-03-1:
* Support has been added for the Postnet barcode format.
* The renderer has been improved to allow support for symbologies with variable height bars.
2004-12-03:
* This version changes the renderer to accept a dictionary of arguments rather than an sbs string, so that it can have optional arguments such as text and bar heights passed to it. The encoders were upgraded accordingly.
2004-11-30:
* Efficiency was improved by adding the bind operator to procedure definitions to make use of early operator resolution.
2004-11-26:
* This release adds a PostScript file and a tarball on the homepage to ease downloading and patching.
2004-11-23:
* This release added support for the UPC-E barcode format.
2004-11-21:
* Support has been added for EAN-13, EAN-8, and UPC-A barcode formats.
2004-11-19:
* This release adds support for printing the EAN-13 barcode format.
* The software now supports EAN-13, Code 128-B, Code 39, Interleaved 2 of 5, Code 2 of 5, and Codabar.
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