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| author | Jörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff-webhosting.net> | 2014-09-01 13:56:46 +0200 |
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| committer | Jörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff-webhosting.net> | 2014-09-01 13:56:46 +0200 |
| commit | 22f703cab05b7cd368f4de9e03991b7664dc5022 (patch) | |
| tree | 6f4d50beaa42328e24b1c6b56b6ec059e4ef21a5 /tiff/html/v3.4beta028.html | |
Initial import of argyll version 1.5.1-8debian/1.5.1-8
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diff --git a/tiff/html/v3.4beta028.html b/tiff/html/v3.4beta028.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ff7ef69 --- /dev/null +++ b/tiff/html/v3.4beta028.html @@ -0,0 +1,146 @@ +<HTML> +<HEAD> +<TITLE> +Changes in TIFF v3.4beta028 +</TITLE> +</HEAD> + +<BODY> +<FONT FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Sans"> + +<BASEFONT SIZE=4> +<B><FONT SIZE=+3>T</FONT>IFF <FONT SIZE=+2>C</FONT>HANGE <FONT SIZE=+2>I</FONT>NFORMATION</B> +<BASEFONT SIZE=3> + +<UL> +<HR SIZE=4 WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left> +<B>Current Version</B>: v3.4beta028<BR> +<B>Previous Version</B>: <A HREF=v3.4beta024.html>v3.4beta024</A><BR> +<B>Master FTP Site</B>: <A HREF="ftp://ftp.sgi.com/graphics/tiff">ftp.sgi.com (192.48.153.1), directory graphics/tiff</A><BR> +<HR SIZE=4 WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left> +</UL> + +<P> +This document describes the changes made to the software between the +<I>previous</I> and <I>current</I> versions (see above). +If you don't find something listed here, then it was not done in this +timeframe, or it was not considered important enough to be mentioned. +The following information is located here: +<UL> +<LI><A HREF="#configure">Changes in the software configuration</A> +<LI><A HREF="#libtiff">Changes in libtiff</A> +<LI><A HREF="#tools">Changes in the tools</A> +<LI><A HREF="#man">Changes in the manual pages</A> +<LI><A HREF="#contrib">Changes in the contributed software</A> +</UL> + +<P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right> + +<A NAME="configure"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:</B></A> + +<UL> +<LI>a <TT>-noninteractive</TT> flag was added to configure to + control whether or not it prints and prompts for configuration information +<LI>various typos and fixes were made in configure for the the + library-only build support (this and other configure fixes from + Richard Mlynarik <A HREF=mailto:mly@adoc.xerox.com><mly@adoc.xerox.com></A>) +<LI>bugs were fixed in the handling of pathnames supplied for external + packages; e.g. <TT>DIR_JPEG</TT> +<LI>the handling of <TT>SETMAKE</TT> is now done properly +<LI>the default prototype function declaration for <TT>pow</TT> was corrected +<LI>a bug was fixed in <B>libtiff/Makefile.in</B> that caused installation + to fail on systems without DSO support +</UL> + +<P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right> + +<A NAME="libtiff"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:</B></A> + +<UL> +<LI>Acorn RISC O/S support that was accidentally left out of the + left out of the previous distribution is present (from Peter Greenham) +<LI>complaints about unknown and/or unsupported codecs have been + delayed until they are invoked; this permits applications to open + images and look at tags even if the image data is compressed with + an unknown/unsupported compression scheme +<LI>bugs in handling unknown tags have been corrected; applications + that use multiple codecs, each with codec-specific tags, no longer + generate confusing error messages +<LI>a missing pseudo-tag definition in the CCITT G3 codec was fixed + (this problem caused core dumps in the <TT>tiffcp</TT> program) +<LI>pseudo-tags are now treated specially; they are always considered + to be set (i.e. they do not use bits in the <TT>FIELD_*</TT> bit-vectors). +<LI>the use of strip chopping can now be controlled on a per-file basis + through a mode parameter supplied when opening a file (``C'' to + enable strip chopping and ``c'' to disable) +<LI>two bugs were fixed in the writing of opposite-endian byte-order + files +<LI>support was added for three new fax-related tags registered to + SGI: FaxRecvParams, FaxRecvTime, and FaxSubAddress +<LI>the bit order of image data read and written can now be controlled + on a per-file basis through a mode parameter supplied when opening + a file (``B'' to force MSB2LSB bit order, ``L'' for LSB2MSB bit + order, and ``H'' for the bit order of the native CPU) +<LI>the byte order of image and tag data written to newly-created files + can now be controlled on a per-file basis through a mode parameter + supplied when openening a file (``b'' to force Big-Endian byte order + and ``l'' to force Little-Endian byte order) +<LI>the use memory-mapped files for images opened read-only can now + be controlled on a per-file basis through a mode parameter supplied + when opening a file (``M'' to enable use of memory-mapped files + and ``m'' to disable use) +<LI>the use of the <TT>WIN32</TT> define in <B>tiffiop.h</B> has + been replaced by <TT>__WIN32__</TT> +</UL> + +<P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right> + +<A NAME="tools"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE TOOLS:</B></A> + +<UL> +<LI><TT>fax2ps</TT> now does a <TT>save</TT> and <TT>restore</TT> + around each page of PostScript; this fixes a problem with VM + overflow when printing a many-page document on some printers +<LI>a bug in the handling of 3-channel images by <TT>ras2tiff</TT> + was fixed +<LI><TT>tiffcp</TT> has new options to control the byte order of + newly created files: <B>-B</B> for Big-Endian byte order, <B>-L</B> + for Little-Endian byte order; a <B>-M</B> option to disable the + use of memory-mapped files, and a <B>-C</B> option to disable the + use of strip chopping +<LI>bugs were fixed in <TT>tiffcp</TT>'s handling of codec-specific tags +</UL> + +<P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right> + +<A NAME="man"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE MANUAL PAGES:</B></A> + +<UL> +<LI>the <TT>TIFFOpen</TT> page has been updated to reflect the new + optional open mode parameters +</UL> + +<P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right> + +<A NAME="contrib"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE CONTRIBUTED SOFTWARE:</B></A> + +<UL> +<LI><B>contrib/win95</B> contains information and code from Philippe Tenenhaus + <A HREF=mailto:100423.3705@compuserve.com><100423.3705@compuserve.com></A> + about using the software under Windows 95 +<LI><B>contrib/winnt</B> contains information and code from Dave Dyer + <A HREF=mailto:ddyer@triple-i.com><ddyer@triple-i.com></A> + about using the software under Windows NT +</UL> + +<A HREF="index.html"><IMG SRC="images/back.gif"></A> TIFF home page.<BR> + +<HR> + +<ADDRESS> +<A HREF="sam.html">Sam Leffler</A> / <A HREF="mailto:sam@engr.sgi.com">sam@engr.sgi.com</A> +Last updated $Date: 1999/08/09 20:21:21 $. +</ADDRESS> + +</BODY> +</HTML> |