[ITA] zint 2.13.0 - multi-format barcode encoder
Brian Inglis
Brian.Inglis@SystematicSW.ab.ca
Tue Aug 27 19:54:57 GMT 2024
Zint does easy barcode data encoding in a wide range of
standard formats and supports integration into programs.
License: GPL-3.0-or-later AND BSD-3-Clause
For more information see the project home page:
http://zint.org.uk
I have successfully rebuilt the package locally with a patch for not
quite new enough Qt, added licence, b-r packages, and installed docs,
and cmake scripts and pushed to playground:
https://cygwin.com/git/?p=git/cygwin-packages/zint.git
built under scallywag GH CI:
https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi?srcpkg=zint
log at:
https://github.com/cygwin/scallywag/actions/runs/10584126970/job/29327864619
There are issues with not building a Qt GUI backend dll, nor tcl
support, and tests not running due to startup failures.
For changes since the previous Cygwin release see below:
2023-12-18 2.13.0
*Incompatible changes*
- Buffer lengths of members `fgcolour` and `bgcolour` in `zint_symbol` extended
10 -> 16 to allow for "C,M,Y,K" comma-separated decimal percentage strings
- CMYK values for EPS (slightly) and TIF (significantly) have changed - now use
the same RGB -> CMYK formula
- Text (HRT) placement for vector (EMF/EPS/SVG) output changed - for EAN/UPC
slightly further away from barcode, for all others slightly nearer. Some
horizontal alignments of EAN/UPC vector text also tweaked
- Text (HRT) for standalone EAN-2 and EAN-5 now at top of symbol
(was at bottom)
- Text height (font size) for SMALL_TEXT vector output reduced
- For Windows, filenames are now assumed to be UTF-8 encoded. Affects `outfile`
in `zint_symbol` and all API filename arguments
- Never-used `fontsize` member removed from `zint_symbol`
- Buffer length of member `text` (HRT) in `zint_symbol` extended 128 -> 200
(client buffers may need checking/extending)
- Font of text of SVG vector output now "OCRB, monospace" (EAN/UPC) or
"Arimo, Arial, sans-serif" (all others)
(was "Helvetica, sans-serif" for both)
- Unintended excess horizontal whitespace of Composite symbols removed, and
quiet zone settings respected exactly, and centring of HRT (if any) now
relative to linear part of symbol only rather than whole symbol
- Unlikely-to-be-used `bitmap_byte_length` member removed from `zint_symbol`
(was only set on BMP output to length of BMP pixel array)
- EXCODE39 now defaults to displaying check digit in Human Readable Text (HRT)
- GS1_128 now warns if data > 48 (GS1 General Specifications max)
Changes
- BMP/EMF/EPS/GIF/PCX/PNG/SVG/TIF/TXT: check for errors on writing to output
file (ticket #275)
- manual/man page: document octal escape; Code 128 subset/mode -> Code Set
- Add special symbology-specific escape sequences (Code 128 only) for manual
Code Set switching via `input_mode` flag `EXTRA_ESCAPE_MODE` (CLI --extraesc)
(ticket #204)
- GUI: disable "Reset" colour if default; add "Unset" to Printing Scale dialog
(allows unsetting of X-dim/resolution settings without having to zap)
- API/CLI/GUI: allow foreground/background colours to be specified as
comma-separated decimal percentage strings "C,M,Y,K" where "C", "M" etc. are
0-100 (ticket #281, 3rd point)
- PCX: add alpha support
- GUI: rearrange some Appearance tab inputs (Border Type <-> Width, Show Text
<-> Font, Text/Font <-> Printing Scale/Size) to flow more naturally;
save button "Save As..." -> "Save..." and add icon
- Add `text_gap` option to allow adjustment of vertical gap between barcode and
text (HRT)
- DAFT: up max to 250 chars
- CLI: use own (Wine) version of `CommandLineToArgvW()` to avoid loading
"shell32.dll"
- EAN/UPC: add quiet zone indicators option (API `output_options`
`EANUPC_GUARD_WHITESPACE`, CLI `--guardwhitespace`) (ticket #287)
- EAN-2/EAN-5: HRT now at top instead of at bottom for standalones, following
BWIPP
- EPS/SVG: use new `out_putsf()` func to output floats, avoiding trailing zeroes
& locale dependency
- EPS: simplify "TR" formula
- SVG: change font from "Helvetica, sans-serif" to "OCRB, monospace" for EAN/UPC
and "Arimo, Arial, sans-serif" for all others;
use single "<path>" instead of multiple "<rect>"s to draw boxes (reduces file
size)
- Add `EMBED_VECTOR_FONT` to `output_options` (CLI `--embedfont`) to enable
embedding of font in vector output - currently only for SVG output
- GUI: use "OCRB" font for EAN/UPC and "Arimo" for all others (was "Helvetica"
for both); add preview background colour option (default light grey) so as
whitespace will show up in contrast (access via preview context menu)
- CODE128/common: add `ZINT_WARN_HRT_TRUNCATED` warning
- QRCODE: better assert(), removing a NOLINT (2 left)
- CLI: add some more barcode synonyms for DBAR
- CMake: don't include png.c unless ZINT_USE_PNG (avoids clang warning)
- vector: reduce SMALL_TEXT font height 6 -> 5 to be more like raster;
reduce antialiasing allowance for `textoffset`;
adjust text to baseline using values for Arimo rather than percentage
- manual: expand size/alpha details in Section "5.4 Buffering Symbols in Memory
(raster)" (cf ticket #291); add BSD info
- EXCODE39: change to display check digit in HRT by default
- CODE39/EXCODE39/LOGMARS: new hidden check digit option
- GUI: move some symbology-specific options into Data Tab so separate tab
unnecessary
- DATAMATRIX: add `DM_ISO_144` (--dmiso144) option for ISO placement of ECC
codewords instead of default "de facto"
- manual: add annexes on Qt and Tcl backends
- CODE128: increase no. symbol chars max 60 -> 99
- frontend: truncate overlong `--primary` instead of ignoring
- man page: list size detail for matrix symbols (`--vers`)
- CODE11/C25XXX/CODE39/EXCODE39/HIBC_39/CODE93/CODABAR/PLESSEY/MSI_PLESSEY/FLAT/
DAFT/TELEPEN/TELEPEN_NUM: increase allowed lengths
- API: add `ZBarcode_Reset()` to fully restore `zint_symbol` to default state
Bugs
- CEPNET: fix no HRT (library: `has_hrt()`)
- man page: fix Code 11 check digit info
- CMake: allow ctest to be run without having to install zint or manually set
LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PATH (ticket #279, props Alexey Dokuchaev)
- GUI: fg/bgcolor text edit: fix right-click context menu not working properly
by checking for it on FocusOut
- GUI: fix fg/bgcolor icon background not being reset on zap
- EMF/EPS/SVG/GUI: ignore BOLD_TEXT for EAN/UPC
- EMF/EPS/SVG: fix addon bars placement/length when text hidden
- For Windows, assume `outfile` & API filename args are in UTF-8,
& use xxxW() APIs accordingly, ticket #288, props Marcel
**Backwards-incompatible change**
- GUI: fix `save_to_file()` `filename.toLatin1()` -> `toUtf8()`
- CLI: batch mode: don't close input if stdin
- EAN/UPC: fix excess 1X to right of add-ons
- Composites: fix excess whitespace; fix quiet zone calcs to allow for linear
shifting
- GUI: fix not enabling font combo "Small Bold (vector only)" by default
- CODEONE: fix S/T quiet zone 1X bottom (props BWIPP issue #245 doc)
- EAN-2/EAN-5: fix `BARCODE_BIND_TOP/BIND/BOX` output
- library: fix 21-bit Unicode conversion in `escape_char_process()`; fix
restricting escaped data length by using de-escaped length to check
- AZTEC: fix out-of-bounds crash when user-specified size given, ticket #300,
props Andre Maute; fix 4-layer compact block max (76 -> 64); fix encoding of
byte-blocks > 11-bit limit
- CODABLOCKF: fix crash due to `columns` overflow, ticket #300, props Andre
Maute
- CODEONE: fix out-of-bounds crash in `c1_c40text_cnt()` and looping on latch
crash in `c1_encode()` and too small buffer for Version T, ticket #300, props
Andre Maute
- EANX_CC/UPCA_CC: fix crash in `dbar_date()` on not checking length and crash
in `gs1_verify()` on not checking length, ticket #300, props Andre Maute
- GS1_128_CC: fix divide-by-zero crash in `calc_padding_ccc()`, ticket #300,
props Andre Maute
- HANXIN: fix incorrect numeric costings (out-by-1) in `hx_in_numeric()`, ticket
#300 (#16), props Andre Maure
- PDF417: fix out-of-bounds crash in `pdf_text_submode_length()` and
out-of-bounds crash on overrunning string and codeword buffers, ticket #300,
props Andre Maute
- QRCODE: fix out-of-bounds crash due to incorrect mode costings for GS1
percents in `qr_in_alpha()`; fix incorrect numeric costings (out-by-1) in
`qr_in_numeric()`; ticket #300 (#14, #15; #16), props Andre Maute
2022-12-12 2.12.0
*Incompatible changes*
- DOTCODE, QRCODE, RMQR: now return warning if ECI or Structured Append used in
GS1 mode
- CLI now returns an error if unknown option given or if option is missing its
argument
NOTE: previously printed error messages but continued without returning an
error
- DPD now adds top boundary bar by default and returns warnings if input is not
compliant
- Legacy and never-used output option BARCODE_NO_ASCII removed (value now used
by new output option BARCODE_BIND_TOP)
- Symbology BARCODE_CODE128B (Suppress subset C) renamed to BARCODE_CODE128AB
to more accurately reflect its behaviour (old name still recognised, except in
Tcl backend)
- Symbology BARCODE_MAILMARK renamed to BARCODE_MAILMARK_4S due to introduction
of BARCODE_MAILMARK_2D (old name still recognised, except in Tcl backend)
- CLI now expects floating point arguments to be in simple decimal point
notation (i.e. not scientific notation) with a maximum of 7 significant digits
Changes
- bwipp_dump.ps: convert patch file to cat file as BWIPP now honours `dontdraw`
for composite symbologies
- DOTCODE, QRCODE, RMQR: return warning if ECI or Structured Append used in GS1
mode, ticket #271
- CLI: improve `getopt_long_only()` processing, printing own message if bad arg
and returning error if so rather than continuing to process
- manual: MSE typo -> MSI; adjust SVG scaling for PDF manual; pandoc 2.19.2
- manual/man page/GUI: Code 16k -> Code 16K
- PDF417/MICROPDF417: add optimized encoding, FAST_MODE for previous; formatting
changes
- common.c/h: add `cnt_digits()`; comments in include; minor fiddling
- API/CLI/Tcl/GUI: new output option BARCODE_BIND_TOP / `--bindtop` / "Bind Top"
- DPD: add top boundary (width 3X) by default, using new BARCODE_BIND_TOP;
"relabel" option; some compliance checks
- manual: fuller DPD doc; some spelling typos, formatting
- cmake: fixes for static build and install directories, props koprok
- cmake: remove zintconfig.h.in for now as incompatible with MSVC project builds
(will add back in future if go fully CMake)
- NO_PNG -> ZINT_NO_PNG and new API function `Zint_NoPng()` to determine if no
PNG support in libzint; replace use in GUI with backend_qt method `noPng()`
- API: add new zint_symbol `dpmm` field for output resolution (BMP/EMF/PCX/PNG/
TIF only, i.e. excluding EPS, GIF & SVG)
- Add support for specifying scale by X-dimension and resolution with new option
`--scalexdimdp` for CLI/Tcl & new API function `ZBarcode_Scale_From_XdimDp()`
(plus `ZBarcode_XdimDp_From_Scale()` and `ZBarcode_Default_Xdim()`) and new
GUI popup; manual: document
- BMP/EMF/PCX/PNG/TIF: use new `dpmm` resolution field (for EMF following
Inkscape)
- backend_qt: add `dpmm()`, `vectorWidth()`, `vectorHeight()`, `noPng()`,
`getVersion()`, `takesGS1AIData()`, & `XdimDp` stuff incl. new `QZintXdimDp`
struct for passing around scale vars & use in `getAsCLI()`; add comments
- Raise `scale` limit to 200 (from 100) to allow for large dpmm
- output: create directories & subdirectories as necessary for output path using
new function `out_fopen()` and use in BMP/EMF/EPS/GIF/PCX/PNG/SVG/TIF
- DPLEIT/DPIDENT: format HRT according to (incomplete) documentation, and set
default height to 72X (from 50X)
- CODE128B renamed to CODE128AB as can use subsets A and/or B
- MAILMARK: better error message if input < 14 characters
- GUI: add "Default" button for DAFT tracker ratio & enable/disable various
default buttons; use new `takesGS1AIData()` to enable/disable GS1-specific
checkboxes
- CLI: use new `validate_float()` to parse float options (7 significant digits
allowed only, no scientific notation)
- CLI: mirror: use -o directory if any (ticket #193)
- QRCODE/UPNQR: add FAST_MODE (try 4 not 8 masks automatically)
- GS1: add new AI 7011 (GSCN 22-163)
- Add new symbology BARCODE_MAILMARK_2D (Royal Mail 2D Mailmark), renaming
previous BARCODE_MAILMARK (Royal Mail 4-State Mailmark) to BARCODE_MAILMARK_4S
- Add new symbology BARCODE_UPU_S10
- PZN: allow check digit to be given; add space after hyphen in HRT; PZN7 option
- backend_tcl: update TEA
- DATAMATRIX/GRIDMATRIX/PDF417/QR/ULTRA: micro-optimize structapp ID parse
- library/CLI: fiddle with static asserts (make CHAR_BIT sensitive, supposedly)
- win32/README: update building libpng (assembly removed)
- README.linux: document incompatibility of Qt6 >= 6.3
- manual: expand Barcode Studio waffle
- test suite: change range separator to hyphen and allow multiple excludes
Bugs
- test suite: fix `test_library` test to allow for running from root;
fix `test_args` test to allow for re-running (remove junk) (tickets #268,
#269)
- common.h: define ZINT_IS_C89 as __STDC_VERSION__ not defined by MSVC, and use
when checking whether to include <alloca.h> (MR #152)
- common.c: ensure `stripf()` not inlined to prevent optimizer undoing effect
(ticket #269)
- GUI: fix "Border Width" ampersand shortcut
- CODE128: allow for extended latching (double FNC4) spanning intermediate
CodeC sequence by setting `f_state` only if in CodeA/B & checking before
adding extended mode switch (cf OkapiBarcode commit [9ce6dcc], props Daniel
Gredler)
- DATAMATRIX: in FAST_MODE re-process any buffered X12 characters when mode
changes from X12 (cf OkapiBarcode commit [fb7981e], props Daniel Gredler)
- CODABLOCKF: allow for FNC4 when estimating no. of rows required
- CODE16K: make sure row calculation accurate by dispensing with glyph estimate
& using actual codeword count
- CODE16K: ensure initial mode selection allows for extended characters
- vector.c: add `z_alloca()` cast for `first_row_rects` (ticket #272)
- MSVC project files: remove incorrect "CompileAsCpp" setting from libzint
project files (ticket #272)
- bwipp_dump.ps: fix 2/4-track processing; update to latest BWIPP
- PDF417/MICROPDF417: use latch not ps shift for padding when spanning
Text segments to avoid affecting 1st char of 2nd segment
- GUI: only skip encoded/errored signal processing if active modal ExportDialog
(wasn't clearing/setting error text bar correctly)
- CODABAR: fix minimum height calc
- EMF: fix indexing of handles (zero-based not 1-based)
- GUI: fix symbology zap (previous technique of clearing and re-loading settings
without doing a sync no longer works); fix UPCEAN guard descent enable
2022-08-22 2.11.1
Changes
- GUI: sequence export dialog: add Postfix field for filename (#252)
- eci.c: replace libiconv-adapted code with own implementations so
as to fully comply with libzint's BSD license
- GUI: CODE39/EXCODE39: show/hide HIBC check digit option
- RMQR: update to ISO/IEC 23941:2022 - R13x77 numeric cclens change 8 -> 7
- QRCODE: use stricter interpretation of ZINT_FULL_MULTIBYTE, excluding
certain trailing bytes
- GUI: foreground/background colours -> text boxes and icon buttons, add swap
button, independently movable picker (NULL parent), preview colour changes,
preview Data Window changes, add clear data (del) buttons, add zap button
and Factory Reset menu option, various other fixes
- GUI: make acceptable for macOS; add iconset for macOS, install
- manual: update macOS Homebrew install info; add README.macos
- GUI: export window: add no. of sequences to results label
- frontend: batch: for @ use + instead of * on Windows as * not allowed
in filenames
- Add new symbology BC412 (SEMI T1-95)
- backend: use alloca() (z_alloca()) for both Unix and Windows
- GS1: new AI 4309 with latlong checker, new currency code 925
- GUI: add automatic info feedback to "Automatic" combo item of size/row/height
comboboxes
- PDF417: encodation now simpler and closer to ISO/IEC 15438:2015 Annex N
algorithm, props Jeff Skaistis
- Add new symbology CEPNet
Bugs
- frontend/test_args.c: don't use WIFEXITED(), WEXITSTATUS() on Windows
- libzint: fix some confusing error messages introduced by segment stuff
- GUI: remove unnecessary tabMain min size (better layout rendering on
Windows/Fedora)
- library: check symbol->primary for escape sequences also
- GUI: error message GS1_MODE -> GS1 mode
- GUI: sequence window: fix initial clear button status
- GUI: NO_PNG: allow for Qt not parsing #if's in slots
- frontend: batch mode: fix default "~~~~~" output (github issue #65)
- vector: ensure separators don't overlap with other rectangles so that
they render correctly when have RGBA alpha channel
- GUI: update_preview() after Data Dialog return to ensure preview in sync
- PDF417: fix invalid numeric -> byte shift transitions, MR #151, props Jeff
Skaistis
- PDF417: fix extraneous text latch after a byte shift, MR #151, props Jeff
Skaistis
2022-05-24 2.11.0
*Incompatible changes*
- Add width to struct zint_vector_circle
NOTE: backward incompatible drawing of MaxiCode finder (bullseye)
- Check that scale/height/whitespace/border are reasonable values
NOTE: will return error if values outside ranges
- raster.c: Bug fix for heap-buffer-overflow (#204 ARM-Cortex)
NOTE: may cause single-pixel changes to height depending on height/scale used
- JAPANPOST: return error if input data would be truncated
NOTE: previously was silently truncated
- PDF417: return warning if specified cols increased
NOTE: previously no warning was returned
- Matrix symbols: horizontal boundary bars appear outside any vertical
whitespace
NOTE: previously appeared inside vertical whitespace
- ECI 29 now GB 2312 only; GB 18030 is new ECI 32
NOTE: previously ECI 29 was GB 18030 for HANXIN, GB 2312 otherwise
- HANXIN, QRCODE/RMQR now warn when convert to GB 18030, Shift JIS resp.
and no ECI given
- GRIDMATRIX no longer attempts Latin-1 conversion when no ECI given
- CLI now returns ZINT_ERROR_INVALID_OPTION (8) on its failed option checks
and ZINT_WARN_INVALID_OPTION (2) on ignored options
NOTE: previously returned 1 and 0 respectively
Changes
- RMQR: add ECI support
- CODE93: don't display check characters in HRT (as per standard Figure B1)
unless option_2 = 1 or vers=1
- GUI: separate out MAXICODE Structured Carrier Message fields
- library.c: Check that scale/height/whitespace/border are reasonable values:
scale (0.01-100), height (0-2000), whitespace_width/height (0-100),
border_width (0-100)
- CLI: allow both e.g. '-height' and '--height' (getopt_long_only())
- UPC/EAN: add guard_descent
- Add output_options BARCODE_QUIET_ZONES and BARCODE_NO_QUIET_ZONES
- Allow dummy AI "[]" if GS1NOCHECK_MODE and has data (#204)
- raster.c: improve non-half-integer interpolation performance
- Add Structured Append support for AZTEC, CODEONE, DATAMATRIX, DOTCODE,
GRIDMATRIX, MAXICODE, MICROPDF417, PDF417, QRCODE, ULTRA
- ULTRA: add revision 2 support (based on BWIPP 2021-09-28 update)
- Add compliant height
- GUI: add Menu, copy to clipboard EMF/GIF/PNG/TIF, errtxt bar and status bar,
icons (feathericons)
- CODABAR: add show check digit option
- DAFT: max chars 50 -> 100
- CMake: separate no-optimize from ZINT_DEBUG into new ZINT_NOOPT option
- PDF417: add specify rows option
- Add HEIGHTPERROW_MODE input mode flag
- DBAR_EXPSTK: add max rows option
- CODE16K/CODE49: add min rows option
- GUI: add CLI equivalent dialog (#163)
- Add ZBarcode_BarcodeName()
- GUI: data dialog: convert Line Feeds if escaping on input, escape on output
- DATAMATRIX: new algorithm for (near-)optimal encoding, props Alex Geller
- CLI/GUI/Tcl: add --fast option to select faster but less optimal DATAMATRIX
algorithm (previous default)
- Matrix symbols: change horizontal boundary bars to appear outside any
vertical whitespace, as they're decorative rather than functional (#247)
- FIM: Add support for FIM E
- Updated ECIs to AIM ITS/04-023:2022 (ECI Part 3: Register)
- HANXIN: removed alternating filler in function information
- GRIDMATRIX/HANXIN/QRCODE/RMQR: warn if auto-conversion (i.e. no ECI given)
occurs to resp. specialized char sets (GB 2312/GB 18030/Shift JIS)
- Add multiple segments support for AZTEC, CODEONE, DATAMATRIX, DOTCODE,
GRIDMATRIX, HANXIN, MAXICODE, MICROPDF417, PDF417, QRCODE, RMQR, ULTRA
- MICROQR: check versions M1 and M2 for allowed characters so as to give better
error messages
- UPNQR: allow mask to be manually specified
- GUI: use non-native QColorDialog on Unix also; no noEXE for CLI equivalent;
add shortcuts for copy-to-clipboard and CLI equivalent
- CLI: new --version option to print Zint version
- manual: one true source now manual.pmd from which manual.txt is generated
- CLI: man page moved from frontend/zint.1.gz to docs/zint.1.gz, now
generated from docs/zint.1.pmd
- add README.linux to root dir
- CLI: return ZINT_ERROR_INVALID_OPTION instead of 1 on bad option and
ZINT_WARN_INVALID_OPTION instead of 0 on ignored option
Bugs
- GUI/CLI: fix dev version test
- library.c: error_tag(): check error_number < ZINT_ERROR on WARN_FAIL_ALL
- vector.c: enforce minimum scale >= 0.1 and allow in GUI
- Suppress some pedantic warnings, props codemonkey82 (#204)
- gs1.c: Allow 0-length AI data if GS1NOCHECK_MODE, props codemonkey82 (#204)
- raster.c: avoid distributive multiplication with floats to lessen chances of
platform variation (#204 ARM-Cortex crash)
- common/emf/output/raster/vector.c: use new stripf() func to workaround
float variations
- raster.c: Don't add height offset for text if scale < 1.0 (as won't print)
- ISBNX: fix not returning error number (warning) correctly
- *.rc: fix VER_FILEVERSION_STR format (, -> .), props Jeff Skaistis
- PDF417: fix cols/rows calculation to require multiple <= 928 codewords
- raster.c: fix possible blank rows appearing in CODE16K, CODE49, PHARMA_TWO,
PDF417 & CODABLOCKF due to height/scale rounding, props codemonkey82 (#204)
- library.c: check for stacking symbols >= 200
- DATAMATRIX: fix mis-encoding of non-encodables in X12 and EDIFACT modes,
props Alex Geller
- DATAMATRIX: fix mis-encoding of FNC1/GS in EDIFACT in GS1 mode
- Allow for dot overspill in height of vertical box sides (dotty mode)
- HANXIN: fix gate-posts on codeword limits
- GUI: cater for HiDPI display, props bitaround (#257)
- RMQR: fix ECI encoding (wrong bit length for indicator)
- CLI/tcl: fix version check (need <= 999 for DAFT permille)
- UPNQR: fix required binary mode using mode_preset
- GRIDMATRIX: default char set is GB 2312 only, not Latin-1 with GB 2312 alt
- HANXIN/QRCODE: use Hanzi/Kanji modes when compatible ECIs given
2021-08-14 2.10.0
*Incompatible changes*
- Add halign (horizontal align) to struct zint_vector_string
NOTE: backward incompatible text drawing for UPC/EAN
- Change height and row_height array to floats
NOTE: may cause changes in heights
Changes
- Move project history/version from manual.txt and backend/README into this file
- Command line switches -d or -i for code data may now be at any position.
- Add rotation for vector formats
- Change double to float for performance in many internal places
- Ticket 197: optimize raster scaling for 0.5 substeps;
ignore raster scaling < 0.5 as pixels lost.
- Ticket 197: add output option to bypass time-intensive buffer_plot()
(OUT_BUFFER_INTERMEDIATE)
- Reduce BMP size by using 1 bit per pixel (except Ultracode)
- New warn_level field, WARN_FAIL_ALL
- Add GS1NOCHECK_MODE to input_mode (note was ZPL compatibility mode
WARN_ZPL_COMPAT to warn_level)
- Remove version info from zint.h and put in zintconfig.h via zintconfig.h.in
- Add ZBarcode_Cap()
- Add GUI symbology filter, separate settings for each symbology
- Require cmake 3.5, use PNG::PNG and add Qt6 build option
- Make library fully stack-based so reentrant apart from file operations
- Performance improvements (large data) for AZTEC/HANXIN/GRIDMATRIX/PDF417/QR
- Option scmvv for MaxiCode #212; postcode needn't be space-filled
- eci: Add support for all ECIs (Big5, Korean, UCS-2BE)
- CLI: Handle UTF-8 args on Windows; -b <barcode name>
- DATAMATRIX: make EOD encodation strictly ISO 16022 compliant
- png.c: Use palette for file size savings
- tif.c: Use palette/bilevel/LZW to reduce file size, alpha/CMYK support
- Option gs1parens (GS1PARENS_MODE)
- MAXICODE: Rejig raster output to more closely match ISO 16023:2000
- C25STANDARD/C25INTER/C25IATA/C25LOGIC/C25IND: add check digit option (#216)
- Use zint-64.svg for smoother icons, props frhun
- Add whitespace_height to zint_symbol (vertical whitespace)
- AZTEC: optimize populate_map (good for small data) - avoids MSVC bug also
- Various workarounds for other MSVC bugs
- CMake: Windows compatible, backend/tests & frontend/tests now subprojects
using new zint_add_test.cmake file, static build, new ZINT_USE_PNG and
ZINT_USE_QT options, getopt moved to subproject and getopt detection,
sanitizer flag detection, and many other improvements, props Alonso Schaich
- PLESSEY: add options NCR weighted mod-10, hide check digit(s) in HRT
- Fuller error messages; more comments zint.h
- CMake: simplication and modernization, Qt5/6 version, props Null Void (atom)
- POSTNET/PLANET: allow up to 38 chars (ZINT_WARN_NONCOMPLIANT) (see [d7ac9c])
- RMQR: update to new draft ISO/IEC JTC1/SC31N000 (Draft 2019-6-24)
- ULTRA: update max size and min cols based on BWIPP 2021-07-14 update
Bugs
- Code16k selects GS1 mode by default in GUI
- Ultracode: use white pixels instead background for white modules.
- EMF: fix Ultracode colours.
- Ultracode: fix count of codewords when using reader init mode
- Databar Limited: add 5 right guard spaces (ISO/IEC 24723:2010 6.2 (e))
- Data Matrix: avoid unnecessary latch in X12 mode at end of data, #208
- Data Matrix: fix eod shift -> 0 pad
- POSTNET/PLANET: remove extra 1 module space
- Aztec: fix bit-stuffing (again!) and Aztec Rune: fix for data >= 128
- EAN composite: allow for check digit + buffer overflow for too long add-on
- Han Xin fix 0xFFE terminator
- GUI: Use UTF-8 for QSettings (non-ASCII was getting garbled on restore)
- DOTCODE: Fix best_mask -> high_score prime test
- CODEONE: various fixes, ECI support
- #218 Prevent buffer overflow in ean_leading_zeroes by checking max lengths
- MAXICODE: fix mask typos for ECI 3/4 bytes
- Fix UPCEAN small font ignored/disabled (introduced [1adba1])
- get_best_eci: check UTF-8 before returning 26
- MAXICODE: fix shifting from sets C/D/E to A/B (only latch available)
- EAN14, NVE18: fix checksum calc for zero-filled input
- png: ULTRA: allow for fgcolour if bind/box (MR #111)
- DOTCODE: allow for max 200 cols in CLI, GUI, Tcl
- CODEONE/DATAMATRIX/MAILMARK/PLESSEY: fix some 32-bit/portability bugs
- CODABAR: fix CALCIUM define address use, props Alonso Schaich
- DATAMATRIX/CODEONE: Use LCM in look ahead tests to avoid floats (#228)
- raster/output: use new isfintf() to test floats integral (CodeQL)
- ZBarcode_Encode: don't reinit symbol->outfile, props Alonso Schaich
- CODEONE: is_last_single_ascii() out-of-bounds, #232 CI-Fuzz, props Jan Schrewe
- library: compat symbology 39 fix; ISBN: "X" check
- backend/CMakeLists.txt: output dir for zintconfig.h, props Andre Maute (#238)
- UPCE/UPCE_CC: allow check digit (same as UPCA/UPCA_CC) so selecting composite
doesn't give error
- bmp/emf/ps.c: allow for foreground colour in ULTRA
- bmp/gif/pcx.c: allow for BARCODE_STDOUT (fflush/fclose)
- ps.c: fix buffer overflow on colour_to_pscolor() CMYK
- composite: fix buffer overflow for large linear and small composite
- composite: clear errtxt when bumping from CC-A -> CC-B -> CC-C
- CODABLOCKF: prevent cols > 62; fix pTestList buffer overflow
- RMQR: allow for righthand vertical timing pattern in populate_grid()
2020-08-04 2.9.1
Changes
- Ticket 122: Implement transparency support
- Ticket 129: -nobackground option added
- -fg and -bg may contain an alpha channel
- structure zint_symbol may now contain an alpha channel as output
- Added DPD Symbology
- Add support for Unicode escape characters
Bugs
- EMF text colour does not change
- Fix QPainterPath dependency for Visual Studio
2020-07-31 2.9.0
Changes
- Dotcode: adapt to AIM DOC Revision 4
- New option "-separator=" for zint to specify the separator height of stacked
symbologies.
- make internal routines invisible by a static function definition.
- CODE11: make adding check digits an option, selectable to 2 (default as now),
1 or none
- LOGMARS restrict max length to 30 per MIL-STD-1189 Rev. B; make check digit
optional
- CODE39/EXCODE39: max length now 85
- VIN code extended to international licence plates
- CODABAR: 3 data characters minimum (plus start/stop), check digit option added
- Channel Code: performance improvement
- QT GUI:
- GRIDMATRIX/HX/MQR/QRCODE/RMQR: allow separate selection of size/ECC
- add DAFT and VIN Symbologies
- Separarator option for DATAMATRIX
- Ticket 162: parse escape sequences
- gui element reassigments
- UPC/EAN/ITF-14 Composite: Ticket 72: new option --addongap (default:9) to set
the gap between code and composite.
- TCL Backend: The following symbology names were renamed:
- Matrix2of5 -> Standard2of5
- PDF417Trunc -> PDF417Compact
- RSS14Stacked -> GS1DataBarStacked
- RSS14Stacked -> GS1DataBarStacked
- RSS14StackedOmni -> GS1DataBarSstackedOmni
- RSS14ExpandedStacked -> GS1DataBarExpandedStacked
- OneCode -> USPSIntelligentMail
- EAN128-CC -> GS1-128-CC
- RSS14-CC -> GS1DataBarOmni-CC
- RSSLimited-CC -> GS1DataBarLimited-CC
- RSSExpandedStacked-CC -> GS1DataBarExpanded-CC
- RSSEXPanded-CC -> GS1DataBarExpanded-CC
- RSS14Stacked-CC -> GS1DataBarStacked-CC
- RSS14Omni-CC -> GS1DataBarStackedOmni-CC
- RSSExpandedStacked-CC -> GS1DataBarExpandedStacked-CC
** Potential incompatibility **
- API Symbol names changed but old names preserved in zint.h
- BARCODE_C25MATRIX -> BARCODE_C25STANDARD
- BARCODE_EAB128_CC -> BARCODE_GS1_128
- BARCODE_RSS14 -> BARCODE_DBAR_OMN
- BARCODE_RSS_LTD -> BARCODE_DBAR_LTD
- BARCODE_RSS_EXP -> BARCODE_DBAR_EXP
- BARCODE_PDF417TRUNC -> BARCODE_PDF417COMP
- BARCODE_RSS14STACK -> BARCODE_DBAR_STK
- BARCODE_RSS14STACK_OMNI -> BARCODE_DBAR_OMNSTK
- BARCODE_RSS_EXPSTACK -> BARCODE_DBAR_EXPSTK
- BARCODE_ONECODE -> BARCODE_USPS_IMAIL
- BARCODE_EAN128_CC -> BARCODE_GS1_128_CC
- BARCODE_RSS14_CC -> BARCODE_DBAR_OMN_CC
- BARCODE_RSS_LTD_CC -> BARCODE_DBAR_LTD_CC
- BARCODE_RSS_EXP_CC -> BARCODE_DBAR_EXP_CC
- BARCODE_RSS14STACK_CC -> BARCODE_DBAR_STK_CC
- BARCODE_RSS_EXPSTACK_CC -> BARCODE_DBAR_EXPSTK_CC
Bugs
- Ticket 185 EMF export corrections
- fine scaling by the use of float arithmetic
- full header (extension1&2) with correct size field
- Ticket 190: Aztec buffer overrun fixed
- Ticket 191 suppress clang-tidy warnings: raster.c, composite.c, qr.c
- Ultracode internal encoding bugs, ECI 899
- GS1 data: exclude DEL character
- Ticket 192: missing malloc.h include for Windows compilers.
- Correct GS1 AI 253 & 255 length from 14 to 13
- Codablock F changes:
- FNC4 may not be split over rows.
- Use Code128 routine for one line Codablock FIM
- Correct column range to 9 ... 62
- allow new options: row count and column count, border_width and HIBC mode
- pad correctly empty and last row
- separator length correction
- Code128 changes:
- Correctly encode CodeA charset with control-character only data
- Improve coding of Extended ASCII (FNC4)
- Checksum calculation overflow protection
- EAN128 may reduce length
- Check for incomplete escape sequences on data specification: "\" without
following character.
- Code16K fixes: remove extended ASCII latch, pad character
- Restructuring to have common code centralized:
- Code128 routines for Codablock&Code16K
- output.c has common routines from raster.c and symbologies.
- HIBC_39: restrict max length to 68 otherwise to avoid overrun
- Code One: protect agains overrun
- Telepen: allow DEL
- GS1 Databar/ GS1-128 Composite:
- Separator bar corrections
- Ticket 200: spurious additional row
- Correct names in GUI
- Compact PDF417:
- Add missing stop pattern.
- Rename in GUI: "PDF417 Truncated" to "Compact PDF417".
- PDF417: Optimize text compaction mode switch.
- Human readable representation: Code128, Code39, Code93 special characters
are shown by a blank.
- ITF14: Ticket 201: allow bind option
2020-04-10 2.8.0
Changes
(New) Tests for auspost, codablock, composite, dotcode, general, telepen,
upcean, all output formats
- QR, Han Xin, Grid Matrix: the multi byte compaction schemes (ex: Kanji)
are used by some decoders as codepage information (Ex: GB2312) and output
may be translated to UTF-8. This may destroy the data in a not controlable
manner.
In consequence, multibyte compaction schemes are disabled by default.
The new option --fullmultibyte (option_3 = ZINT_FULL_MULTIBYTE) enables this
optimisation.
- Add new symbology "Ultra Code" with the ability to output colour codes.
Bugs
- Ticket 181 penetration test found many bugs:
- Auspost: null bytes in content caused segfault
- Codablock: data 0x1a..0x1f caused segfault
- Dotcode: overrun in binary mode, overrun in codeword_array buffer
Correct encoding of HT/FS/GS/RS when shifting to code set B
- empty or unreadable input file
- telepen: buffer overflow
- EANUCC: buffer overflow on multiple + (multiple extension bars)
- Maxicode: index overrun on numeric compaction
- CodeOne: Simple i indexing not sp + i in C1_ASCII numeric latch loop.
- Aztec: free memory
- Ticket 183: Databar stacked separator correction
- Ticket 182: Output bitmap type was char, where some targets assigned 0
if pixel colour >127 (e.g. negative). API change to use unsigned char.
- HanXin: wrong codepage, gb2312 instead gb18030.
- PDF417: corrected alloced sizes to max characters
- Ticket 189: FNC1 encodation fixed (FLG(0) missing after FLG(n))
- PCX format: added missing bytes_per_line if bitmap width is odd.
2020-02-01 2.7.1
Changes
- QR encoding optimized to get smaller code matrix results
- PDF417: remove obsolete codeword number option in qzint.
Option removed in qtzint.
- Removed annex B (3 digit country codes) and annex C (GS1 General
Specification) from the manual. This material may be found elsewhere.
- MAC homebrew remark added to the documentation
- Correct cmake file to match BSD-3-clause licence
Bugs
- Correct uninitialized warning in gridmatrix.call
- do not export internal functions
- raster painting of UPC-A bound check
- pdf417 documentation corrected: change flag -security to -secure
- Dot Code encoding ECI number corrected
- Corrected postscript plotting error
- Datamatrix: corrected possible buffer overrun in 3 characters to 2 byte
encodings.
- In 2.7.0 removed interface "ZBarcode_Render" still declared
- vc6 make was missing (trivial) resource.h
2019-12-05 2.7.0
Changes
- Automatic height option added to qzint
- DotCode in line with new specification
- New GS1 AIs 7240, 235, 417, 7040, 8026, updated checks for 7007, 8008
- New Symbology rMQR
- QR and Qridmatrix optimisation for GB2312
- removed depreciated interface for gLabels program. Please use current
interface.
Fixed bugs
- Many improvements in composite codes
- SVG output corrected for messages containing "<" and "&".
- GS1-128 and RSS may only be used with GS1 contents
- Han Xin chinese character handling
2019-10-07 2.6.7
Changes
Ticket 127: Allow to code ECI 3 if explicitly given for debug purposes.
**Incompatible change**
"--eci 3" now leads to included ECI information.
"--eci 0" may now be used to not include any ECI information.
The default of the parameter changed from 3 to 0.
Fixed bugs
Ticket 146, 165: fix wrong encoding of RSS composite codes
2019-09-18 2.6.6
Fixed bugs
Ticket 161: PDF row size may be set
Ticket 155: PDF numeric compaction
Ticket 164: crash due to call of svg_plot withnull vector
Ticket 119: Crash on bullseye raster drawing
qtzint: Micro-QR version option choice corrected (+1 missing).
Datamatrix: code corruption when ECI was encoded and base256 encoding was
automatically chosen.
2019-09-02 2.6.5
Fixed bugs
backend/main.c was missing
Maxicode bullseye rastering for scale = 0.5
Crash in utf to eci.
eci ISO 8859-16 table missing data line
upce check for 7 digit input (causes crash) and BARCODE_UPCE_CHK -> BARCODE_UPCE
mapping removed
US imail check for invalid barcode identifier and allow 0/5/9/11 length zip
maxicode code set correction
cmake flags for debugging and sanitize options
unit tests for the changes, with a simple test suite based on qrencode/tests
2019-08-30 2.6.4
Fixed bugs: EMF output, maxicode plot/content
Datamatrix DMRE updated to the ISO/IEC29158 version. This is incompatible in the
way that the old -vers numbers for DMRE are re-assigned.
The separator of GS1-datamatrix may be switched from FNC1 to GS.
GS1 field length check AI 8009 and 7230 to 7239 currected.
2018-02-15 2.6.3
New symbology Royal Mail 4-state Mailmark. Added North America VIN verification.
Bugfixes for TIF and EMF output and escape character handling.
2017-10-22 2.6.2
Further bugfixes in Aztec and DotCode. Expand escape sequence support
to API and GUI. Handle UTF BOM. Bugfix raster images of Maxicode.
2017-08-27 2.6.1
Library bugfixes: EDIFACT unlatch in Data Matrix, Add UPNQR, Improved Aztec
data compression, Detect Code 128 data too long, Make error codes consistent.
GUI improvements: Additional clipboard options, remove border width bug,
remove changing background colour bug, remember more settings and make GUI
more consistent with user expectations. All windows now resizable and more
information given when batch processing.
2017-05-12 2.6.0
Update front end to Qt5. Output to EMF and TIF. Copy to clipboard. Update
to latest draft of DMRE. Usual bugfixes.
2017-04-03 2.5.1
Numerous bugfixes, especially with Data Matrix thanks to extensive testing
by brunt@SF
2016-11-13 2.5
Support for DotCode and Han Xin code. ECI code processing. Output to BMP, GIF
and PCX. Added bold and small text options. Reintroduction of Codablock-F.
Many minor fixes and improvements.
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