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diff --git a/tiff/html/v3.4beta024.html b/tiff/html/v3.4beta024.html deleted file mode 100644 index 25a3347..0000000 --- a/tiff/html/v3.4beta024.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,139 +0,0 @@ -<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> |