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MathML for Apache FOP

Posted on 21. May 2007 by Jeremias Märki

After a long time idling and switching caretakers more than once, JEuclid seems to have resurfaced from the half-dead. Max Berger and a few others are making the MathML implementation (written in Java and licensed under the Apache License v2.0)…

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Barcode4J 2.0 alpha 1 released

Posted on 20. January 2007 by Jeremias Märki

Barcode4J 2.0 alpha 1 is now released. In the release notes I’m asking for feedback on the new functionality. I hope I’ll get a lot of good feedback (positive or negative) so I can soon do a final 2.0 release.

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DataMatrix support in Barcode4J

Posted on 12. January 2007 by Jeremias Märki

Thunderhead has kindly sponsored an implementation of the DataMatrix barcode symbology (ISO/IEC 16022:2000(E)) for Barcode4J. This is now the second 2D symbology I was able to add to the codebase. Although it’s not a complete implementation of the spec, all…

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Apache FOP 0.93 released

Posted on 12. January 2007 by Jeremias Märki

Finally, a FOP release after the redesign without a beta tag! The most important changes since 0.92 beta besides a lot of bugfixing and stabilization work: Added support for the use of Open Type fonts. Support for the rgb-icc() function…

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XMLizing PDF

Posted on 5. January 2007 by Jeremias Märki

PDF has been around for some time and is widely used. Lately, with buying Macromedia, Adobe’s strategy towards PDF changes more and more, and IMO not in a good direction. The “open” standard is gradually closed down as Adobe adds…

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Apache FOP running under Apache Harmony

Posted on 12. November 2006 by Jeremias Märki

When I found out today, that Apache Harmony now publishes snapshot binaries for Windows, I just had to download one immediately and run Apache FOP under that VM. And guess what, the simple “readme.fo” example from FOP ran just fine.…

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Royal Mail Customer Barcode for Barcode4J

Posted on 8. November 2006 by Jeremias Märki

Today, I’ve uploaded a new barcode type for Barcode4J: the Royal Mail Customer Barcode (CBC). It’s a kind of “four-state” barcode. There are others like that, for example the Australian variant which uses Reed Solomon error correction instead of a…

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Quick comparison of start times with Java and IKVM-compiled binaries

Posted on 5. November 2006 by Jeremias Märki

Today, I was curious about the start times of .NET binaries created from Java sources using IKVM. I took the opportunity to add IKVM compilation (kvmc) to Barcode4J‘s build. If I create a shell script that runs Barcode4J’s command-line (PDF417…

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