********* Changelog ********* 2017-01-29 - Version 3.0a - "Grey Area" --------------------------------------- This release is the first alpha release of the new version 3.0. Please be aware that the API will still change until v3.0 is released. changes ^^^^^^^ - feature: add "capabilities" which are shared with escpos-php, capabilities are stored in `escpos-printer-db `_ - feature: the driver tries now to guess the appropriate codepage and sets it automatically (called "magic encode") - as an alternative you can force the codepage with the old API - updated and improved documentation - changed constructor of main class due to introduction of capablities - changed interface of method `blocktext`, changed behavior of multiple methods, for details refer to the documentation on `python-escpos.readthedocs.io `_ - add support for custom cash drawer sequence contributors ^^^^^^^^^^^^ - Michael Billington - Michael Elsdörfer - Patrick Kanzler (with code by Frédéric Van der Essen) - Asuki Kono - Benito López - Curtis // mashedkeyboard - Thijs Triemstra - ysuolmai 2016-08-26 - Version 2.2.0 - "Fate Amenable To Change" ------------------------------------------------------ changes ^^^^^^^ - fix improper API-use in qrcode() - change setup.py shebang to make it compatible with virtualenvs. - add constants for sheet mode and colors - support changing the linespacing contributors ^^^^^^^^^^^^ - Michael Elsdörfer - Patrick Kanzler 2016-08-10 - Version 2.1.3 - "Ethics Gradient" ---------------------------------------------- changes ^^^^^^^ - configure readthedocs and travis - update doc with hint on image preprocessing - add fix for printing large images (by splitting them into multiple images) contributors ^^^^^^^^^^^^ - Patrick Kanzler 2016-08-02 - Version 2.1.2 - "Death and Gravity" ------------------------------------------------ changes ^^^^^^^ - fix File-printer: flush after every call of _raw() - fix lists in documentation - fix CODE128: by adding the control character to the barcode-selection-sequence the barcode became unusable contributors ^^^^^^^^^^^^ - Patrick Kanzler 2016-08-02 - Version 2.1.1 - "Contents May Differ" -------------------------------------------------- changes ^^^^^^^ - rename variable interface in USB-class to timeout - add support for hypothesis and move pypy3 to the allowed failures (pypy3 is not supported by hypothesis) contributors ^^^^^^^^^^^^ - Patrick Kanzler - Renato Lorenzi 2016-07-23 - Version 2.1.0 - "But Who's Counting?" -------------------------------------------------- changes ^^^^^^^ - packaging: configured the coverage-analysis codecov.io - GitHub: improved issues-template - documentation: add troubleshooting tip to network-interface - the module, cli and documentation is now aware of the version of python-escpos - the cli does now support basic tabcompletion contributors ^^^^^^^^^^^^ - Patrick Kanzler 2016-06-24 - Version 2.0.0 - "Attitude Adjuster" ------------------------------------------------ This version is based on the original version of python-escpos by Manuel F Martinez. However, many contributions have greatly improved the old codebase. Since this version does not completely match the interface of the version published on PyPi and has many improvements, it will be released as version 2.0.0. changes ^^^^^^^ - refactor complete code in order to be compatible with Python 2 and 3 - modernize packaging - add testing and CI - merge various forks into codebase, fixing multiple issues with barcode-, QR-printing, cashdraw and structure - improve the documentation - extend support of barcode-codes to type B - add function to disable panel-buttons - the text-functions are now intended for unicode, the driver will automatically encode the string based on the selected codepage - the image-functions are now much more flexible - added a CLI - restructured the constants contributors ^^^^^^^^^^^^ - Thomas van den Berg - Michael Billington - Nate Bookham - Davis Goglin - Christoph Heuel - Patrick Kanzler - Qian LinFeng 2016-01-24 - Version 1.0.9 -------------------------- - fix constant definition for PC1252 - move documentation to Sphinx 2015-10-27 - Version 1.0.8 -------------------------- - Merge pull request #59 from zouppen/master - Support for images vertically longer than 256 pixels - Sent by Joel Lehtonen - Updated README 2015-08-22 - Version 1.0.7 -------------------------- - Issue #57: Fixed transparent images 2015-07-06 - Version 1.0.6 -------------------------- - Merge pull request #53 from ldos/master - Extended params for serial printers - Sent by ldos 2015-04-21 - Version 1.0.5 -------------------------- - Merge pull request #45 from Krispy2009/master - Raising the right error when wrong charcode is used - Sent by Kristi 2014-05-20 - Version 1.0.4 -------------------------- - Issue #20: Added Density support (Sent by thomas.erbacher@ragapack.de) - Added charcode tables - Fixed Horizontal Tab - Fixed code tabulators 2014-02-23 - Version 1.0.3 -------------------------- - Issue #18: Added quad-area characters (Sent by syncman1x@gmail.com) - Added exception for PIL import 2013-12-30 - Version 1.0.2 -------------------------- - Issue #5: Fixed vertical tab - Issue #9: Fixed identation inconsistence 2013-03-14 - Version 1.0.1 -------------------------- - Issue #8: Fixed set font - Added QR support 2012-11-15 - Version 1.0 ------------------------ - Issue #2: Added ethernet support - Issue #3: Added compatibility with libusb-1.0.1 - Issue #4: Fixed typo in escpos.py