Changelog

v0.14.0

  • Breaking: The default dimensions have changed slightly. This is so that the results of generating a PNG and an SVG look more alike.
  • Previous versions included an empty text element for SVGs with no comment. This is no longer the case.
  • Some internals have been improved so as to allow better subclassing. Subclasses of Barcode can now override default_writer_options and default_writer().
  • A guardbar parameter has been added to EAN barcodes. This renders barcodes with guardars (longer bars).
  • Added support for Python 3.10.
  • The documentation setup has been redone, hopefully squashing a lot of legacy quirks.
  • Previous versions installed the tests module. This was not intentional and have been fixed.

v0.13.1

  • Fix a crash when using the generate shortcut function.

v0.13.0

  • Added support for transparent backgrounds. This is done by setting the mode option for a writer to RGBA.
  • Dropped support for Python 3.5.
  • Added support for Python 3.9.

v0.12.0

  • Removed writer_options from barcode.get. This parameter was not used.
  • Add a with_doctype flag to SVGWriter. Set this to false to avoid including a DOCTYPE in the resulting SVG.
  • Add support for Pillow>=8.0.0.

v0.11.0

  • Added basic support for multiline text.
  • Dropped lots of older compat-only code and other cleanups.
  • Fixed a bug in the API when combining certain barcodes and writers.
  • Published documentation again and updated all project references.
  • Fix python_barcode.get mixups between options as writer_options. Previously, some writer/barcode combinations worked fine, while others failed. Now all work consistently.
  • The cli tool has been fixed and should now work as expected again.

v0.10.0

  • Added support for GS1-128.

v0.9.1

  • Officially support Python 3.7
  • Refer to Pillow in the docs, rather than PIL.

v0.9.0

  • Removed buggy Barcode.raw attribute.
  • Various CLI errors ironed out.
  • Make the default value for writer_options` consistent across writers.

v0.8.3

  • Fix pushing of releases to GitHub.

v0.8.2

  • Fix crashes when attempting to use the CLI app.
  • Properly include version numbers in SVG comments.

v0.8.1

  • Improve README rendering, and point to this fork’s location (the outdated README on PyPI was causing some confusion).

v0.8.0

  • First release under the name python-barcode.

Previous Changelog

This project is a fork of pyBarcode, which, apparently, is no longer maintained. v0.8.0 is our first release, and is the latest master from that parent project.

v0.8

  • Code 128 added.
  • Data for charsets and bars moved to subpackage barcode.charsets.
  • Merged in some improvements.

v0.7

  • Fixed some issues with fontsize and fontalignment.
  • Added Python 3 support. It’s not well tested yet, but the tests run without errors with Python 3.3. Commandline script added.

v0.6

  • Changed save and write methods to take the options as a dict not as keyword arguments (fix this in your code). Added option to left align the text under the barcode. Fixed bug with EAN13 generation.

v0.5.0

  • Added new generate function to do all generation in one step.
  • Moved writer from a subpackage to a module (this breaks some existing code). UPC is now rendered as real UPC, not as EAN13 with the leading “0”.

v0.4.3

  • Fixed bug in new write method (related to PIL) and updated docs.

v0.4.2

  • Added write method to support file like objects as target.

v0.4.1

  • Bugfix release. Removed redundancy in input validation.
  • EAN8 was broken. It now works as expected.

v0.4

  • Removed **options from writers __init__ method. These options never had effect. They were always overwritten by default_options.
  • New config option available: text_distance (the distance between barcode and text).

v0.4b2

  • Basic documentation included. The barcode object now has a new attribute called raw to have the rendered output without saving to disk.

v0.4b1

  • Support for rendering barcodes as images is implemented. PIL is required to use it.

v0.3

  • Compression for SVG output now works.

v0.3b1

  • Writer API has changed for simple adding new (own) writers.
  • SVG output is now generated with xml.dom module instead of stringformatting (makes it more robust).

v0.2.1

  • API of render changed. Now render takes keyword arguments instead of a dict.

v0.2

  • More tests added.

v0.1

  • First release.