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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> |