TBarCode/X: Version History

• TBarCode/X for Mac OS^® (OS version >= Mac OS X^® 10.4)
• TBarCode/X Filter for Windows (on request)

• Crash when using function BCSaveImageToBuffer with multiple barcodes
• BarWidthReduction affects 2D codes also vertically
• Korean Postal Code produced a wrong bar for character "8"
• DLL Developer Reference: Improved Error Code Description

• New Barcode Types: Aztec Code, DPD Code, Italian Postal Code 2of5, DAFT Code, Telepen, KIX (Dutch Postal Barcode)
• Add new GS1 code names (e.g. GS1-128 was formerly named EAN-128)
• Codabar Mod-16 Check Digit
• Callback Drawing Functions for MaxiCode
• Possibility to force Binary Encoding Mode with PDF417

• PDF417: Corrected an encoding error when a space follows a punctuation character at the end of the data stream.
• PDF417: TBarCode hangs when using a wrong character in the File-ID (happened only when using structured append)
• PDF417: binary sequences are encoded in a wrong way (If the input data was encoded in Punctuation mode and TBarCode have had to shift to Byte mode, it incorrectly returned to Punctuation instead of Alpha mode).
• PDF417/MicroPDF: Compaction now always uses binary mode for barcode creation. This avoids error messages “Barcode does not fit….”
• Data Matrix: Bug in EDIFACT mode corrected (Umlauts in specific character sequences generated an error code)
• Data Matrix: catastrophic failure with \F (FNC1)
• Code128: FNC1 was not encoded in the actual sub set (only happened with user specified subsets)
• Escape sequences are handled now before a possible data compression and before a check-digit is computed (previous versions incorrectly computed check-digits in this situation)

New

• Parameter --insertpattern (filtering of special Adobe^® generated PostScript files)

Fix

• The included filter scripts used the installation path of the previous version 2. Now the correct path is used.

New

• Directly embedded Bitmap generator with Victor Image Library. All commonly used Bitmap Formats are available (on Big Endian Systems like AIX, HP-UX the TIFF format is currently not supported).
• No ImageMagick Libraries dependencies anymore.

Bug Fixes

• Opt-Resolution: Parameter -O generates Images (PS,PCL,Bitmap) quickly with optimal module width and without empty areas.
• Opt-Resolution works for the matrix codes Data Matrix and QR-Code now
• The TBarCode Library functions BCGetBarCodeWidth(), BCGetBarcodeHeight() und BCGetBarcodeSize() deliver the correct values also when Opt Resolution is set.

New

• Code-base is now identical with TBarCode DLL (Library for Windows and Windows CE).
• Detailed version info (including version of TBarCode library and revision number).
• New parameters: linebyline, onnodata, compress, bearerwidth, bearertype, reduction, defaultset, mustfit, decoder, sizemode, align, RSSseg
• New parameters for multiple barcodes: multiple, rows, columns, hdist, vdist, datalimit, dynamicsize, structapp
• Deprecated parameters: guardline, barsimmdefaults
• Filter scripts now run with /bin/sh instead of /bin/bash
• New installation path: /usr/local/share/tbarcode7
• TBarCode without Daemon: Memory-limitation removed. TBarCode automatically reallocates more memory if required.
• More samples added to user documentation.

Changes in LibTBarCode 7.01 can be found in the TBarCode DLL History V7.0/7.0.1

New

• This is the first version that is released simultaneously for all UNIX OS.
• TBarCode/X V2.1 now matches TBarCode 6.1 under Windows
• First official build for SCO OpenServer platforms
• New parameters: colormode, pclmode
• Pure PCL output (without HP-GL/2) possible
• Support for Grayscale and CMYK color space

• Data Matrix bugfixes
• Backslash ('\') was not correctly substituted with '\\' in Postscript text output.

Changes in LibTBarCode 2.1 can be found in the TBarCode DLL History V6.0/V6.1

• Complete redesign: New parameter format, new parameters, new features (versions with and without daemon available).
• Barcodes added: EAN UCC Composite Symbology (all variants), MicroPDF417, Telepen Alpha, RSS Family (RSS Limited, RSS Expanded, RSS14 Truncated, RSS14 Stacked, RSS14 Stacked Omni, RSS Expanded Stacked), Japanese Postal, Korean Postal Authority, Planet 12, Planet 14
• Enhanced API for dealing with wrong data input (BCGet_InvalidDataPos) and for generating bitmaps with optimal resolution (BCGet2D_XRows/ BCGet2D_XCols)

• PDF417: The calculation of height was wrong; there was no possiblity to deactivate the MacroPDF Mode after it has been activated
• BCCheck() - The number of digits in NVE-18 / SSCC-18 was wrong, changed to 18.
• Renamed Postnet8 to PostNet9
• Corrected wrong quiet zones for EAN/UPC with add-on symbol