News

Version 7.3.1 was released on February 3rd 2010. Release notes available here. Please not this is no longer the latest version.

1. GS-1 Databar

GS-1 Databar support has been added to toolkit in the new version. This includes RSS-14, RSS-14 Stacked, RSS Truncated, RSS Limited, RSS Expanded and RSS Expanded Stacked. There is also support for supplemental information encoded in micro-PDF-417 barcodes.

2. Color Images

A new property called ColorProcessLevel has been added to the toolkit. This property controls the amount of time the toolkit will spend processing a color image and should make it unnecessary to set the ColorThreshold property to a value other than zero. If you are upgrading from a previous version of the toolkit and set ColorThreshold to a non-zero value in your code then you will need to change the value to 0 in order to take advantage of the new property.

3. Micro-PDF-417

A memory violation error has been fixed in the micro PDF-417 module.

4. Size of color PDF files

The compression used when outputting PDF documents as part of the Tiff Split process has been changed from zip to jpeg, which yields significantly smaller files.

5. Java Interface

The properties; ReadMicroPDF417, ReadDatabar and ReadDataMatrix have been added to the java interface.

6. SkewTolerance Range

Range checks have been added for the value of the SkewTolerance property.

7. SoftekBarcodeLib2.ScanBarCodeFromBitmap empty string problem

It was possible for the ScanBarCodeFromBitmap method in the .net 2 interface to return a value of 1, and yet GetBarString would return an empty string. This has been fixed and the barcode value is now returned.

8. Median Filter memory leak

A memory leak has been fixed when MedianFiler is set to True.

9. Double read on skewed DataMatrix barcodes.

An error whereby it was possible to get a double read for slightly skewed datamatrix barcodes has been fixed.

10. Empty values for Datamatrix

An error whereby the toolkit returned empty datamatrix barcode values for some images has been fixed.