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diff --git a/tiff/html/v3.4beta028.html b/tiff/html/v3.4beta028.html deleted file mode 100755 index 2b73c3d..0000000 --- a/tiff/html/v3.4beta028.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,146 +0,0 @@ -<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> |