About Barcode4J ====================================== Barcode4J is a barcode generation package written in Java and available under The Apache License version 2.0.
Features ====================================== 1D barcode implementations: - Interleaved 2 of 5 - Code 39 - Codabar - Code 128, EAN-128 - UPC-A and UPC-E (with supplementals) - EAN-13 and EAN-8 (with supplementals) Postal barcode implementations: - POSTNET - Royal Mail Customer Barcode 2D symbologies: - PDF417 - DataMatrix Support for multiple output formats: - SVG - EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) - Bitmap images (such as PNG or JPEG) - Java2D (AWT) - Text (for testing and debugging only) Additional features: - Two APIs (XML-oriented and Bean-style) - Servlet with support for SVG, EPS and bitmap output - Command-line interface - Demonstration applet Plug-ins/extensions for third-party products: - Apache Xalan: SVG-generating XSLT extension - The SAXON XSLT Processor from Michael Kay: SVG-generating XSLT extension - Apache FOP: support as fo:instream-foreign-object For more information about Barcode4J, please visit: http://barcode4j.sourceforge.net Release Notes ====================================== I'm pleased to announce the release of Barcode4J 2.0 alpha 1. It is the first release after quite a long time. The most important new features are: - DataMatrix support - PDF417 support - Royal Mail Customer Barcode support - EAN-128 support - Updated extension for Apache FOP 0.93 and later - Updated extension for SAXON 8.7 and later - Support for barcode orientation A detailed list of changes can be found here: http://barcode4j.sourceforge.net/changes.html I would like to ask the community for positive and negative feedback on the new release. The code is extensively tested but due to some new areas (notably the new 2D symbologies) please take care before considering this release for use in production. If you stick to the previously supported symbologies, you should be safe, though. I expect the final release to happen within the next three months depending on the amount of feedback I get. So please test the new stuff and tell me about your experience! If you like Barcode4J and can put it to good use, please consider a donation to me (the amount is your choice). I've bought a barcode scanner which supports all symbologies supported by Barcode4J so I can better test the software. And that has to be paid somehow. :-) http://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?user_id=225352 Special thanks to Thunderhead Ltd (http://www.thunderhead.com) for sponsoring some of the new symbologies! And thanks to the latest contributors to help improve Barcode4J! More help is always welcome! Enjoy! Jeremias Maerki Files: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=96670 Checksums: D0A57552E3523F201C46B663236BD73D barcode4j-2.0alpha1-bin.zip 0AFFB54AA816BBD63484DE3C55E042E2 barcode4j-2.0alpha1-src.zip 62F25EAB41598CE32A834EA6E2FD06D8 barcode4j-2.0alpha1-bin.tar.gz 341F52B3ECE981749FC2BD5BAB16F0F7 barcode4j-2.0alpha1-src.tar.gz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]