Software Update: Barcode Writer in Pure Postscript 2020-09-13

Barcode Writer in Pure Postscript is, as the name suggests, a barcode generator for level 2 Postscript. A barcode is created according to the specifications of the user by the ‘postscript interpreter’, for example a printer or Ghostscript. The program supports various formats, as code 128, isbn-13/10, maxi code, pdf417 and even kix, which is delivered by PostNL used. For more information, please refer to this quick guide and a web-based front-end is on this one page to admire. Terry Burton has released a new version of Barcode Writer in Pure Postscript, with version number 2020-09-13. This year’s list of changes looks like this:

2020-09-13
A bug in Data Matrix for ECI checks at end of data was fixed.

2020-09-11
ECI support was added to Data Matrix, Aztec Code, QR Code, PDF417, MicroPDF417, Maxicode and DotCode.
GS1 DataBar Limited was updated to include a righthand whitespace guard.
Code 32 was fixed to avoid overwriting the provided barcode string.

2020-07-20
A new encoder for Swiss QR Code was added.
The Codablock F encoding was optimized potentially resulting in smaller symbols.

2020-07-09
The GS1 DataBar Stacked, GS1 DataBar Stacked Omnidirectional and GS1 DataBar Expanded Stacked separator patterns were fixed.
A bug in GS1-128 that sometimes prevented encoding with a Composite Component was fixed.
Bugs in GS1 Composite Component encoding were fixed.

2020-04-01
The GS1 QR Code encoder was fixed.

2020-03-08
Changes were required to the package build script due to new defaults in recent versions of GhostScript.