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    From CTAN Announcements@manfred@ctan.org to ctan-ann on Sun Dec 14 14:31:39 2025
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    Herbert Vo|f submitted an update to the

    pst-barcode

    package.

    Version: 0.20
    License: lppl

    Summary description: Print barcodes using PostScript

    Announcement text: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    ----- pst-barcode
    0.20 2025-12-13
    - updated documentation
    - Common text rendering code was factored out of the linear and matrix renderers into its own resource.
    - The ITF-14 encoder's text positioning was fixed.
    - The Code 128 encoder's raw mode was fixed.
    - The linear and matrix renderers were enhanced to accept top and bottom for the textyalign option.
    - The linear and matrix renderers were enhanced with a textdirection option.
    - The linear and matrix renderer were enhanced with support for extratextsubspace, extratextsplit and extratextlinegaps options corresponding to the alttext equivalents.
    - The linear and matrix renderers were enhanced with alttextsubspace that allows given characters to be substituted for spaces.
    - The linear and matrix renderers were enhanced with alttextsplit and alttextlinegaps options that may be used to render multi-line blocks of text.
    - The GS1 AI linter was realigned with the latest release of the GS1 Syntax Dictionary.
    - The encoder for EAN-8 was changed to forbid the use of a two-digit or five-digit addon unless a permitaddon option is supplied.
    - The high-level encoder for MaxiCode was replaced with a new algorithm that may result in significantly shorter messages.
    - The encoder for Aztec Code was fixed so that punctuation compression works correctly after a binary sequence.
    - The GS1 AI linter now reports the mandatory association specification that is not being met.
    - The baseline of EAN/UPC add-ons is now correctly aligned with the guard bars in the primary symbol.
    - Support for HRI text was added to the GS1 Digital Link variant symbologies.
    - Support for extra text was added to the renlinear and renmatrix renderers.
    - The encoder for QR Code was amended to opportunistically raise the error correction level when better fit to the matrix possible.

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    This package is located at
    https://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-barcode

    More information is at
    https://ctan.org/pkg/pst-barcode


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    Thanks for the upload.

    For the CTAN Team
    Manfred Lotz


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