From an email communication from the USPS National Customer Support Center:
Release 2 (V1R2M0) of the Intelligent Mail barcode encoders
has been posted on RIBBS at http://ribbs.usps.gov/onecodesolution/.
The program code from the earlier Release 1 (V1R1M0) has not
been changed; therefore, you do not have to download or install V1R2M0 if you
have no issues with the current V1R1M0 level. In the current release, the
User Guides have been updated to correctly refer to the Intelligent Mail
barcode name, and further describe the barcode fields. The Java distribution
now includes a package name for easier integration into existing applications
and the Java samples have been improved for operation in multi-threading
applications.
The following encoder packages are new in the current
release:
- HP-UX
on Itanium
- HP-UX
on PA_RISC
- Mac OS
X on Power and Intel
- Solaris
on Intel
- Solaris
on SPARC
Release 3 (V1R3M0) of the Intelligent Mail fonts has also
been posted on RIBBS at http://ribbs.usps.gov/onecodesolution/. This
release provides new compact fonts which complement the existing
standard-height fonts available in V1R2M0. If you are already using an
existing font successfully, it is not necessary to replace it with the new
compact font.
The new compact fonts are designed for mailers who want to
achieve overall barcode height close to the specification minimum of
0.125". The scalable TrueType and Postscript Type 1 compact fonts
should be used at 14pt, as compared to 16pt for the standard-height fonts, to
render compact Intelligent Mail barcodes with a height of 0.126” and a length
of 23.83 bars per inch.
The AFP, TrueType, and Postscript Type 1 compact fonts also
include a fixed-width "space" character to improve compatibility with
various products used for font management. In addition, DCF is supported
by the new AFP compact font.
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Best wishes,
Lisa