Herbert Voß submitted an update to the

pst-barcode

package.

Version: 0.19
License: lppl

Summary description: Print barcodes using PostScript

Announcement text:
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This version has a lot of changes:

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0.19 2022-07-03 - The parse option was extended to perform replacement
of control character names such as ^NUL and ^RS with their ASCII value.
- The horizontal alignment of text in matrix symbols was fixed.
- Various fixes were made for the encoding of Data Matrix, DotCode and Micro QR Code symbols.
- The encoding of QR Code symbols was optimised.
- The encoding of Rectangular Micro QR Code symbols was aligned with the final release of the specification.
- The linear render now uses filled polygons rather than stroked lines.
- Code 93 Extended was amended to not shift encode "$%+/" symbols.
- Support was added for USPS FIM E marks.
- Support for AI (715) was added to the GS1 linter.
- Ultracode tile colours are now defined as RGB rather than CMYK. New tile colour patterns are defined for the upcoming revision.
- A bug in the encoding of certain Aztec Code symbols was fixed.
- A bug in the encoding of certain Dotcode symbols was fixed.
- A bug in the encoding of QR Code symbols containing Kanji compression was fixed.
- The rMQR encoding was optimised, potentially resulting in smaller symbols.
- The colours for Ultracode symbols were changed to RGB values rather than CMYK.
- The metrics for Ultracode symbols was updated and a raw mode was added.
- Linting of GS1 AI (4308) was fixed.
- Linting of the check character pair for AI (8013) was added.
- Linting for GS1 coupon AIs (8110) and (8112) was added.
- Linting for GS1 AI syntax data was expanded and fixed.
- A convenience encoder for GS1 DotCode was added.
- GS1 Composite Component symbols were fixed.
- Linting was added to GS1 Composite Components.
- Linting for GS1 AI syntax data was added.
- A bug in the compact encoding methods 0110X for GS1 DataBar Expanded formats was fixed.
- The parse and parsefnc options are now processed by a single routine that allows their escape patterns to coexist in the input data.
- Bugs in ECI processing with PDF417 and MicroPDF417 were fixed.
- A bug in the seperator pattern for GS1 DataBar Expanded Stacked Composite was fixed.
- A bug in leaving punctuation mode in Aztec Code was fixed.
- An inefficiency in the QR Code encoding was fixed.
- ECI support was added to Code One.
- A bug in Data Matrix for ECI checks at end of data was fixed.
- 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.
- A new encoder for Swiss QR Code was added.
- The Codablock F encoding was optimised potentially resulting in smaller symbols.
- 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.
- The GS1 QR Code encoder was fixed.
- Changes were required to the package build script due to new defaults in recent versions of GhostScript.
- Preliminary support for the Rectangular Micro QR Code symbology was added.
- The encoders were amended to workaround a non-standard operator on Harlequin RIPs.
- A distict encoder was added for Data Matrix Rectangular Extension.
- The Data Matrix encoder was enhanced to include the ISO formats for DMRE.
- A crash with a certain encoding of data in GS1 Databar Expanded based symbologies was fixed.
- A bug in the Code 128 encoder when composite component linkage flags were used with data terminating in mode C was fixed.
- An encoder for the Royal Mail Mailmark symbology was added.
- The performance of the renmatrix renderer was slightly optimised.
- The performance of the renmatrix renderer was significantly improved.
- A recent regression in the Data Matrix encoder was fixed.
- The Data Matrix encoder was fixed to avoid certain cases where switching between C40, Text and X12 encoding might latch repeatedly.
- Preliminary support for the JAB Code symbology was added.
- The raw option was added to the Data Matrix encoder.
- The base size of Ultracode symbols was increased.
- Support for symbols composed of dots was added to the renmatrix renderer.
- The DotCode encoder was amended to use the dotty matrix feature.
- A bug in the DotCode encoder's handling of FNC3 message separator characters was fixed.
- The DotCode encoder was fixed to support optimised handling of "FNC1 in First" for leading numeric input.
- The performance of the Channel Code encoder was improved.
- The base symbol size of the DotCode encoder was increased.
- The DotCode encoder was enhanced to fix weaknesses with the mask evaluation algorithm.
- The Channel Code encoder checksum calculation for channels 4 and 7 was fixed.
- Fixed end of data region encoding error with EDIFACT encoding in Data Matrix.
- Preliminary support for the Ultracode symbology was added.
- The renmatrix renderer was improved to support colour symbols.

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The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at
https://ctan.org/pkg/pst-barcode

The package’s files themselves can be inspected at
https://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-barcode/

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Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team
Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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