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   4         Changes in TIFF v3.8.0
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  13 <B><FONT SIZE=+3>T</FONT>IFF <FONT SIZE=+2>C</FONT>HANGE <FONT SIZE=+2>I</FONT>NFORMATION</B>
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  18 <B>Current Version</B>: v3.8.0<BR>
  19 <B>Previous Version</B>: <A HREF=v3.7.4.html>v3.7.4</a><BR>
  20 <B>Master FTP Site</B>: <A HREF="ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff">
  21 ftp.remotesensing.org</a>, directory pub/libtiff</A><BR>
  22 <B>Master HTTP Site</B>: <A HREF="http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff">
  23 http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff</a>
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  28 This document describes the changes made to the software between the
  29 <I>previous</I> and <I>current</I> versions (see above).
  30 If you don't find something listed here, then it was not done in this
  31 timeframe, or it was not considered important enough to be mentioned.
  32 The following information is located here:
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  34 <LI><A HREF="#hightlights">Major Changes</A>
  35 <LI><A HREF="#configure">Changes in the software configuration</A>
  36 <LI><A HREF="#libtiff">Changes in libtiff</A>
  37 <LI><A HREF="#tools">Changes in the tools</A>
  38 <LI><A HREF="#contrib">Changes in the contrib area</A>
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  45 <A NAME="highlights"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>M</FONT>AJOR CHANGES:</B></A>
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  47 <UL>
  48         <li> Read-only support for custom directories (e.g. EXIF directory).
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  50         <li> Preliminary support for MS MDI format.
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  57 <A NAME="configure"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:</B></A>
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  60         <li> Make the default strip size configurable via the
  61         --with-default-strip-size and STRIP_SIZE_DEFAULT options.
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  68 <A NAME="libtiff"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:</B></A>
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  70 <UL>
  71         <li> tiffio.h: Added VC_EXTRALEAN definition before including
  72         windows.h, to reduce the compile time.
  73
  74         <li> tif_jpeg.c: Improve compilation under MinGW.
  75
  76         <li> {tif_aux.c, tif_dir.c, tif_dir.h, tif_dirwrite.c,
  77         tif_print.c, tif_getimage.c}: Make InkSet, NumberOfInks, DotRange and
  78         StoNits tags custom.
  79
  80         <li> {tif_aux.c, tif_dir.c, tif_dir.h, tif_print.c}: Make
  81         WhitePoint tag custom.
  82
  83         <li> tiffio.h: fixed typo that potentially resulted in
  84         redefininition of USE_WIN32_FILEIO
  85
  86         <li> {tif_dir.c, tif_dir.h, tif_print.c}: Make RichTIFFIPTC,
  87         Photoshop and ICCProfile tags custom.
  88
  89         <li> libtiff/*, contrib/*: Added 'dual-mode' error handling, enabling
  90         newer code to get context indicator in error handler and still
  91         remain compatible with older code: Done TIFFError calls everywhere
  92         except in tools.
  93
  94         <li> tiffinfo.c: Print EXIF directory contents if exist.
  95
  96         <li> {tif_dirinfo.c, tif_dirread.c, tif_dir.h, tif_dir.c}:
  97         Custom directory read-only support.
  98
  99         <li> {tif_aux.c, tif_dirinfo.c, tif_dirread.c, tif_dir.h,
 100         tif_dir.c, tif_print.c}: Make YCbCrCoefficients and ReferenceBlackWhite
 101         tags custom.
 102
 103         <li> tif_dirread.c: One more workaround for broken StripByteCounts
 104         tag. Handle the case when StripByteCounts array filled with
 105         completely wrong values.
 106
 107         <li> tif_dirinfo.c: Release file descriptor in case of failure
 108         in the TIFFOpenW() function as per bug
 109         <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1003">
 110         http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1003</a>
 111
 112         <li> tif_dirinfo.c: Correctly yse bsearch() and lfind()
 113         functions as per bug
 114         <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1008">
 115         http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1008</a>
 116
 117         <li> tif_open.c, tiff.h, tiffdump.c: Incorporate preliminary support
 118         for MS MDI format.
 119         <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1002">
 120         http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1002</a>
 121
 122         <li> libtiff.def, tiffiop.h, tiffio.h: Made TIFFFreeDirectory
 123         public.
 124
 125         <li> /tif_dirinfo.c: Make XResolution, YResolution and
 126         ResolutionUnit tags modifiable during write process. As per bug
 127         <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=977">
 128         http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=977</a>
 129
 130         <li> if_dirread.c: Don't try and split single strips into "0" strips
 131         in ChopUpSingleUncompressedStrip.  This happens in some degenerate
 132         cases (like 1x1 files with stripbytecounts==0 (gtsmall.jp2 embed tiff)
 133
 134         <li> tif_fax3.c: changed 'at scanline ...' style warning/errors
 135         with incorrect use of tif_row, to 'at line ... of
 136         strip/tile ...' style.
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 143 <A NAME="tools"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE TOOLS:</B></A>
 144
 145 <UL>
 146         <li> tiffcp.c: Added many error reporting messages; fixed integer
 147         overflow as per bug
 148         <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789">
 149         http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789</a>
 150
 151         <li> tiffcp.c: Return non-zero status when reading fails.
 152
 153         <li> fax2tiff.c: Properly calculate sizes of temporary arrays
 154         as per bug
 155         <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=943">
 156         http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=943</a>
 157
 158         <li> fax2tiff.c: Added option '-r' to set RowsPerStrip parameter
 159         as per bug
 160         <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=944">
 161         http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=944</a>
 162
 163         <li> tiffdump.c: Fixed typeshift and typemask arrays initialization
 164         problem as per bug
 165         <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=946">
 166         http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=946</a>
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 168         <li> bmp2tiff.c: Fixed possible integer overflow error as per bug
 169         <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=965">
 170         http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=965</a>
 171
 172         <li> tiffsplit.c: Copy fax related fields over splitted parts
 173         as per bug
 174         <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=983">
 175         http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=983</a>
 176
 177         <li> tiffdump.c: Fixed crash when reading malformed tags.
 178
 179         <li> tiff2pdf.c: Added missed 'break' statement as per bug
 180         <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=932">
 181         http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=932</a>
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 188 <A NAME="contrib"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE CONTRIB AREA:</B></A>
 189
 190 <UL>
 191         <li> contrib/addtiffo/*: Major upgrade by Joris to support subsampled
 192         YCbCr images in jpeg compressed TIFF files.
 193
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 196 Last updated $Date: 2006/01/04 23:38:38 $.
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