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diff --git a/tiff/html/v3.4beta024.html b/tiff/html/v3.4beta024.html new file mode 100755 index 0000000..74cd6e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/tiff/html/v3.4beta024.html @@ -0,0 +1,139 @@ +<HTML> +<HEAD> +<TITLE> +Changes in TIFF v3.4beta024 +</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>: v3.4beta024<BR> +<B>Previous Version</B>: <A HREF=v3.4beta018.html>v3.4beta018</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>It is now possible to setup the software to build only the + library; configure reconizes this is the intent when the + <B>VERSION</B>, <B>tiff.alpha</B>, and <B>tif_version.c</B> + files are in the local directory (i.e. ``.'') +<LI>configure no longer tries to setup HTML materials +<LI>include file directories needed in building the library are now + specified with a <TT>DIRS_LIBINC</TT> config parameter +<LI>configure no longer checks for alternate compilers if <TT>CC</TT> + is set; if the specified compiler is not found or is not appropriate + the configuration procedure aborts +<LI>the <B>port.h</B> file generated by configure is now used only by + the library and as such as have been moved to the <B>libtiff</B> + directory +<LI>there is beginning support for building DSO's on systems other than IRIX +<LI>configure now verifies the JPEG and zlib directory pathnames by + checking for well-known include files in these directories +<LI>configure no longer creates the <B>dist</B> directory needed only + on SGI machines (for building SGI binary distributions) +<LI>a bug was fixed whereby configure would incorrectly set + <TT>ENVOPTS</TT> when building the software with gcc under AIX +</UL> + +<P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right> + +<A NAME="libtiff"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:</B></A> + +<UL> +<LI>two new typedefs were added to <B>tiff.h</TT>: <TT>int8</TT> + and <TT>uint8</TT> for signed and unsigned 8-bit quantities, + respectively; these are currently used only by + programs in the <B>tools</B> directory +<LI>the <TT>BadFaxLines</TT>, <TT>CleanFaxData</TT>, and + <TT>ConsecutiveBadFaxLines</B> tags are now supported with + Group 4 compression +<LI>byte order is now correctly identified on 64-bit machines +<LI>a bug was fixed in the PackBits decoder where input data would + appear short when a no-op run was present +<LI>a bug was fixed in calculations with very wide strips +<LI><TT>TIFFWriteEncodedStrip</TT> and <TT>TIFFWriteRawStrip</TT> + were extended to support dynamically growing the number of + strips in an image (must set <TT>ImageLength</TT> prior to + making calls though) +<LI><TT>TIFFDefaultTileSize</TT> now rounds tile width and height + up to a multiple of 16 pixels, as required by the TIFF 6.0 specification +<LI>the file <B>version.h</B> is now built by a new <B>mkversion</B> + program; this was done for portability to non-UNIX systems +<LI>support was added for the Acorn RISC OS (from Peter Greenham) +<LI>the builtin codec table is now made <TT>const</TT> when compiling + under VMS so that <B>libtiff</B> can be built as a shared library +<LI>support for the PowerPC Mac (from Ruedi Boesch) +<LI>support for Window NT/Window 95 (from Scott Wagner) +</UL> + +<P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right> + +<A NAME="tools"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE TOOLS:</B></A> + +<UL> +<LI>the tools no longer include <B>port.h</B> +<LI>various portability fixes; mostly to eliminate implicit assumptions + about how long <TT>int32</TT> data types are +<LI>PostScript Level II additions to <TT>tiff2ps</TT> from Bjorn Brox +<LI><TT>sgi2tiff</TT> now handles RGBA images +</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 documentation has been updated to reflect the current state of + the software +<LI>some routines have been moved to different manual pages + to group like-routines together +</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>support was added for the Acorn RISC OS (from Peter Greenham) +<LI>support for Windows NT/Windows 95 contributed for a previous + version of this software was sort of incorporated (it's broken + right now) (from Scott Wagner) +</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> |