About Barcode4J
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Barcode4J is a barcode generation package written in Java 
and available under The Apache License version 2.0.

Features
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1D barcode implementations:
- Interleaved 2 of 5
- ITF-14
- Code 39
- Codabar
- Code 128, EAN-128
- UPC-A and UPC-E (with supplementals)
- EAN-13 and EAN-8 (with supplementals)

Postal barcode implementations:
- POSTNET
- Royal Mail Customer Barcode
- USPS Intelligent Mail (4-State Customer Barcode)

2D symbologies:
- PDF417
- DataMatrix

Support for multiple output formats:
- SVG
- EPS (Encapsulated PostScript)
- Bitmap images (such as PNG or JPEG)
- Java2D (AWT)
- Text (for testing and debugging only)

Additional features:
- Two APIs (XML-oriented and Bean-style)
- Servlet with support for SVG, EPS and bitmap output
- Command-line interface
- Demonstration applet

Plug-ins/extensions for third-party products:
- Apache Xalan: SVG-generating XSLT extension
- The SAXON XSLT Processor from Michael Kay: SVG-generating XSLT extension
- Apache FOP: support as fo:instream-foreign-object
- Apache XML Graphics Commons: Image Loader Framework

For more information about Barcode4J, please visit:
http://barcode4j.sourceforge.net

Release Notes
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Version 2.1 is a feature and bugfix release. The most important changes
are:
- ITF-14 support
- a plug-in for the image loading framework in Apache XML Graphics
Commons (which is used by Apache FOP 0.95 and later). This restores
compatibility of Barcode4J with Apache FOP 1.0.
- An Apache Ant task
- OSGi metadata for the main JARs
- a number of fixes for PDF417 

The detailed change log can be found here:
http://barcode4j.sourceforge.net/changes.html

Enjoy!
Jeremias Maerki

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