newsletter archives - April, 2004

Volume 9. Issue 4.

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Barcode add on for the printer drivers Coming Soon!

In addition to providing barcode functionality for developers who utilize imaging toolkits, Black Ice will also provide an optional barcode add-on for the Black Ice printer drivers. The forthcoming printer driver barcode add-on will allow Black Ice printer driver customers to automatically add barcodes to any Black Ice printer driver printjob. Developers will be able to programmatically control the barcode type, the information encoded within the barcode, and the position on the page. Developers will also have the option to add barcodes to every page of the document, or just the first page. As with all of the Black Ice printer driver features, developers can programmatically specify settings, allow users to specify settings, or developers can hide the barcode tab completely.

The Black Ice Barcode add on for printer drivers currently supports the following linear barcode formats:

  •  Codabar

  •  Code 11

  •  Code 3 of 9

  •  EAN 8

  •  EAN 13

  •  Industrial 2 from 5

  •  Interleave 2 from 5

  •  Matrix 2 from 5

  •  Plessey

  •  Linear Non-binary barcodes

  •  Code 128

  •  UPC-A

  •  UPC-E

The Barcode add on for the Black Ice printer drivers will include both DLLs and ActiveX controls, allowing developers to utilize the features with a wide range of programming languages including C/C++, VB, C#, J#, VB .NET, Delphi and more!

New Voice Annotations - Annotation SDK

A powerful new feature has been added to the Annotation SDK/ActiveX: Voice annotation! You can create an annotation object that will play sound file (wave) when the user clicks on it. This feature will make the user experience of your products even better than before. Possible uses include interactive help files, application user interfaces and more.

Adding a voice annotation to an image is easy, simply add the Voice object, just like any other annotation object, and specify the sound file to be used. The Voice Annotation objects are a new feature available in version 10.11 and higher of the Annotation SDK/ActiveX and Document Imaging SDK/ActiveX. Be sure to download the latest evaluation version from the Black Ice web site and try the new Voice Annotations for yourself!

New File formats added to the Win 9x printer drivers

The list of file formats supported by the Black Ice printer driver for Windows ME, Windows 98 and Windows 95 have been extended with 9 additional file formats.

The new file formats include:

GIF, PNG, TIFF for Dialogic boards, TIFF for NMS boards, TIFF for Gammalink boards, HTML with JPEG, HTML with PNG, HTML with GIF and HTML with BMP.

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