Morovia DataBar Fontware 1.1.0 : Release Notes

Feb. 8, 2010

Revision History
Revision 1.1.0Feb. 8, 2010
Maintenance Release
Revision 1.0.0Feb. 9, 2009
First Release

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. What's New?
3. Installation and Upgrade Notes
3.1. Installation
3.2. Minimum System Requirements
3.3. Version Compatibility

1. Introduction

This document is the release notes for Morovia DataBar Fontware 1.1. The following sections describe the release in detail and provide late-breaking updates or other information that supplements the main documentation.

Morovia DataBar Fontware consists of true type and PCL fonts, as well encoder programs to print DataBar barcodes on Windows platforms.

This package includes the following contents:

  • Two true type fonts targeting 300/600 dpi laser printers as well as 203-dpi barcode printers/fax machines - mrvdatabar-13x.ttf and mrvdatabar-34x.ttf.

  • Two true type fonts targeting screen resolution: mrvdatabar-13x-96dpi.ttf and mrvdatabar-34x-96dpi.ttf.

  • A special designed true type font, mrvdatabar-em.ttf to be used to create stacked symbols in some software that does not handle font height properly.

  • The user manual, which you are reading on.

  • The PCL package includes two PCL scalable fonts, mrvdatabar-13x.sft and mrvdatabar-34x.sft, as well as test file to work on Windows and Linux.

  • DataBar Encoder GUI, a GUI program to create barcode strings based on data entered.

  • A Windows native DLL that provides standard API that provides encoding functions to Microsoft Office programs, as well as programming environments that support calling DLL.

  • A Crystal Reports extension DLL that adds DataBar printing functionality to Crystal Reports.

2. What's New?

Version 1.1.0 is a maintenance release with minor changes:

  • Fixes several spelling and grammatical errors in the documentation.

  • Installers are modified to run under Vista and Windows 7 with UAC turned on.

3. Installation and Upgrade Notes

3.1. Installation

N/A

3.2. Minimum System Requirements

  • Windows 2000 or above

  • A laser printer/Thermal printer

3.3. Version Compatibility

N/A