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diff --git a/tiff/html/v3.4beta007.html b/tiff/html/v3.4beta007.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c535d27 --- /dev/null +++ b/tiff/html/v3.4beta007.html @@ -0,0 +1,112 @@ +<HTML> +<HEAD> +<TITLE> +Changes in TIFF v3.4beta007 +</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>: v3.4beta007<BR> +<B>Previous Version</B>: v3.4beta004<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="#port">Changes in the portability support</A> +<LI><A HREF="#tools">Changes in the tools</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>bit order was corrected for Pentium systems +<LI>a new define, <TT>HOST_BIGENDIAN</TT>, was added for code that + wants to statically use information about native cpu byte order +</UL> + +<P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right> + +<A NAME="libtiff"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:</B></A> + +<UL> +<LI>the G3/G4 decoder was replaced by a new one that is faster and + has smaller state tables +<LI>Niles Ritter's client tag extension hooks were added +<LI>a new routine <TT>TIFFCurrentDirOffset</TT> was added for + applications that want to find out the file offset of a TIFF directory +<LI>the calculation of the number of strips in an image was corected + for images with certain esoteric configurations +<LI>a potential memory leak (very unlikely) was plugged +<LI>the <TT>TIFFReadRGBAImage</TT> support was completely rewritten + and new, more flexible support was added for reading images into + a fixed-format raster +<LI>YCbCr to RGB conversion done in the <TT>TIFFReadRGBAImage</TT> support + was optimized +<LI>a bug in JPEG support calculation of strip size was corrected +<LI>the LZW decoder was changed to initialize the code table to zero + to lessen potential problems that arise when invalid data is decoded +<LI><B>tiffcomp.h</B> is now aware of OS/2 +<LI>some function prototypes in <B>tiffio.h</B> and <B>tiffiop.h</B> + that contained parameter + names have been changed to avoid complaints from certain compilers +</UL> + +<P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right> + +<A NAME="port"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE PORTABILITY SUPPORT:</B></A> + +<UL> +<LI><B>Makefile.in</B> has been corrected to use the parameters + chosen by the configure script +</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> has been rewritten and moved over from the user + contributed software +<LI>an uninitialized variable in <TT>pal2rgb</TT> has been fixed +<LI><TT>ras2tiff</TT> now converts 24-bit RGB raster data so that + samples are written in the proper order +<LI><TT>tiff2ps</TT> has been updated to include fixes + and enhancements from Alberto Accomazzi +<LI><TT>tiffcp</TT> now has a <TT>-o</TT> option to select a directory + by file offset +<LI><TT>tiffinfo</TT> is now capable of displaying the raw undecoded + image data in a file +<LI><TT>tiffgt</TT> has been rewritten to use the new <TT>TIFFRGBAImage</TT> + support and to handle multiple files +</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> |