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4 | Changes in TIFF v3.4beta028 | |
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12 | <B><FONT SIZE=+3>T</FONT>IFF <FONT SIZE=+2>C</FONT>HANGE <FONT SIZE=+2>I</FONT>NFORMATION</B> | |
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15 | <UL> | |
16 | <HR SIZE=4 WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left> | |
17 | <B>Current Version</B>: v3.4beta028<BR> | |
18 | <B>Previous Version</B>: <A HREF=v3.4beta024.html>v3.4beta024</A><BR> | |
19 | <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> | |
20 | <HR SIZE=4 WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left> | |
21 | </UL> | |
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23 | <P> | |
24 | This document describes the changes made to the software between the | |
25 | <I>previous</I> and <I>current</I> versions (see above). | |
26 | If you don't find something listed here, then it was not done in this | |
27 | timeframe, or it was not considered important enough to be mentioned. | |
28 | The following information is located here: | |
29 | <UL> | |
30 | <LI><A HREF="#configure">Changes in the software configuration</A> | |
31 | <LI><A HREF="#libtiff">Changes in libtiff</A> | |
32 | <LI><A HREF="#tools">Changes in the tools</A> | |
33 | <LI><A HREF="#man">Changes in the manual pages</A> | |
34 | <LI><A HREF="#contrib">Changes in the contributed software</A> | |
35 | </UL> | |
36 | ||
37 | <P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right> | |
38 | ||
39 | <A NAME="configure"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:</B></A> | |
40 | ||
41 | <UL> | |
42 | <LI>a <TT>-noninteractive</TT> flag was added to configure to | |
43 | control whether or not it prints and prompts for configuration information | |
44 | <LI>various typos and fixes were made in configure for the the | |
45 | library-only build support (this and other configure fixes from | |
46 | Richard Mlynarik <A HREF=mailto:mly@adoc.xerox.com><mly@adoc.xerox.com></A>) | |
47 | <LI>bugs were fixed in the handling of pathnames supplied for external | |
48 | packages; e.g. <TT>DIR_JPEG</TT> | |
49 | <LI>the handling of <TT>SETMAKE</TT> is now done properly | |
50 | <LI>the default prototype function declaration for <TT>pow</TT> was corrected | |
51 | <LI>a bug was fixed in <B>libtiff/Makefile.in</B> that caused installation | |
52 | to fail on systems without DSO support | |
53 | </UL> | |
54 | ||
55 | <P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right> | |
56 | ||
57 | <A NAME="libtiff"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:</B></A> | |
58 | ||
59 | <UL> | |
60 | <LI>Acorn RISC O/S support that was accidentally left out of the | |
61 | left out of the previous distribution is present (from Peter Greenham) | |
62 | <LI>complaints about unknown and/or unsupported codecs have been | |
63 | delayed until they are invoked; this permits applications to open | |
64 | images and look at tags even if the image data is compressed with | |
65 | an unknown/unsupported compression scheme | |
66 | <LI>bugs in handling unknown tags have been corrected; applications | |
67 | that use multiple codecs, each with codec-specific tags, no longer | |
68 | generate confusing error messages | |
69 | <LI>a missing pseudo-tag definition in the CCITT G3 codec was fixed | |
70 | (this problem caused core dumps in the <TT>tiffcp</TT> program) | |
71 | <LI>pseudo-tags are now treated specially; they are always considered | |
72 | to be set (i.e. they do not use bits in the <TT>FIELD_*</TT> bit-vectors). | |
73 | <LI>the use of strip chopping can now be controlled on a per-file basis | |
74 | through a mode parameter supplied when opening a file (``C'' to | |
75 | enable strip chopping and ``c'' to disable) | |
76 | <LI>two bugs were fixed in the writing of opposite-endian byte-order | |
77 | files | |
78 | <LI>support was added for three new fax-related tags registered to | |
79 | SGI: FaxRecvParams, FaxRecvTime, and FaxSubAddress | |
80 | <LI>the bit order of image data read and written can now be controlled | |
81 | on a per-file basis through a mode parameter supplied when opening | |
82 | a file (``B'' to force MSB2LSB bit order, ``L'' for LSB2MSB bit | |
83 | order, and ``H'' for the bit order of the native CPU) | |
84 | <LI>the byte order of image and tag data written to newly-created files | |
85 | can now be controlled on a per-file basis through a mode parameter | |
86 | supplied when openening a file (``b'' to force Big-Endian byte order | |
87 | and ``l'' to force Little-Endian byte order) | |
88 | <LI>the use memory-mapped files for images opened read-only can now | |
89 | be controlled on a per-file basis through a mode parameter supplied | |
90 | when opening a file (``M'' to enable use of memory-mapped files | |
91 | and ``m'' to disable use) | |
92 | <LI>the use of the <TT>WIN32</TT> define in <B>tiffiop.h</B> has | |
93 | been replaced by <TT>__WIN32__</TT> | |
94 | </UL> | |
95 | ||
96 | <P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right> | |
97 | ||
98 | <A NAME="tools"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE TOOLS:</B></A> | |
99 | ||
100 | <UL> | |
101 | <LI><TT>fax2ps</TT> now does a <TT>save</TT> and <TT>restore</TT> | |
102 | around each page of PostScript; this fixes a problem with VM | |
103 | overflow when printing a many-page document on some printers | |
104 | <LI>a bug in the handling of 3-channel images by <TT>ras2tiff</TT> | |
105 | was fixed | |
106 | <LI><TT>tiffcp</TT> has new options to control the byte order of | |
107 | newly created files: <B>-B</B> for Big-Endian byte order, <B>-L</B> | |
108 | for Little-Endian byte order; a <B>-M</B> option to disable the | |
109 | use of memory-mapped files, and a <B>-C</B> option to disable the | |
110 | use of strip chopping | |
111 | <LI>bugs were fixed in <TT>tiffcp</TT>'s handling of codec-specific tags | |
112 | </UL> | |
113 | ||
114 | <P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right> | |
115 | ||
116 | <A NAME="man"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE MANUAL PAGES:</B></A> | |
117 | ||
118 | <UL> | |
119 | <LI>the <TT>TIFFOpen</TT> page has been updated to reflect the new | |
120 | optional open mode parameters | |
121 | </UL> | |
122 | ||
123 | <P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right> | |
124 | ||
125 | <A NAME="contrib"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE CONTRIBUTED SOFTWARE:</B></A> | |
126 | ||
127 | <UL> | |
128 | <LI><B>contrib/win95</B> contains information and code from Philippe Tenenhaus | |
129 | <A HREF=mailto:100423.3705@compuserve.com><100423.3705@compuserve.com></A> | |
130 | about using the software under Windows 95 | |
131 | <LI><B>contrib/winnt</B> contains information and code from Dave Dyer | |
132 | <A HREF=mailto:ddyer@triple-i.com><ddyer@triple-i.com></A> | |
133 | about using the software under Windows NT | |
134 | </UL> | |
135 | ||
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139 | ||
140 | <ADDRESS> | |
141 | <A HREF="sam.html">Sam Leffler</A> / <A HREF="mailto:sam@engr.sgi.com">sam@engr.sgi.com</A> | |
142 | Last updated $Date: 1999/08/09 20:21:21 $. | |
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