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This file was last updated on January 26, 2009
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Please note that this file records news for the associated development
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branch and that each development branch has its own NEWS file. See the
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ChangeLog file for full details.
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1.3.5 (January 26, 2009)
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* BMP and DIB formats were throwing an assertion for negative height
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values. This caused the process to crash.
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* Don't install Magick++ headers if C++ is disabled.
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* Linux RPM SPEC file needs to always install the loadable module
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.la files or else the modules won't load.
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* Windows runtime DLLs were for the wrong compiler version,
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resulting in failure to execute if the correct runtime DLLs are
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* FITS: Parsing is more robust.
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Performance Improvements:
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1.3.4 (January 13, 2009)
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* Now runs under Windows Vista (as a 32-bit application).
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* Fix for colorspace transform math overflow in Q32 build.
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* Windows build supports OpenMP and requires Windows 2000 or later
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(source code still supports Windows '98).
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* Support large files under Windows.
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* Support reading/writing 16 and 24 bit float TIFF files.
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* Support reading/writing 64 bit integer TIFF files.
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* Added "Log", "Max", "Min", and "Pow" options to -operator.
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* Debug logging now properly prints 64-bit offset values.
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Performance Improvements:
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* Improve resource estimation for Microsoft Windows systems.
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1.3.3 (December 9, 2008)
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* 'identify' was throwing an assertion when used on colormapped
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files (this bug was introduced by 1.3.2).
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* With the -segment option, eliminate trashing the image colors when
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* 'identify -format "%c"' now reports the entire comment regardless
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* Argument to -convolve is no longer arbitrarily truncated so huge
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convolution kernels may now be specified from the command line.
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Performance Improvements:
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* Image segmentation (-segment) is now accelerated using OpenMP and
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uses several other tactics to improve execution performance.
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* 'identify "*"' now successfully works in a 32-bit application when
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used in a directory containing a million files.
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* 'identify' now executes quickly when used on TIFF files.
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1.3.2 (November 29, 2008)
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* -roll was failing for colormapped images.
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* VID: Memory leak fix.
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* PREVIEW: Solarize parameter was wrong.
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* Delegates previously using 'spawn' needed an ampersand so that
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starting the child process does not hang the GUI.
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Feature improvements:
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* +profile now supports an exclusion syntax. For example ``+profile
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'!icm,*'`` removes all of the profiles except for the ICM profile.
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The new syntax also allows multiple profiles to be listed at once.
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Performance Improvements:
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* AdaptiveThreshold, Blur, Convolve, and MotionBlur no longer
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process the opacity channel unless the image has one.
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1.3.1 (November 17, 2008)
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* RPM build, Fixes to successfully build binary RPMs for Red Hat
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* MSL/conjure, Fix bug with attributes becoming appended to
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themselves. Fix memory leaks.
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Feature improvements:
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* New --disable-openmp-slow configure option for disabling use of
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OpenMP for algorithms which may run slower on operating systems
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with crummy thread libraries.
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* JPEG, Allow user to specify DCT encoding method via
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jpeg:dct-method define. Also allow control over whether huffman
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encoding is used via jpeg:optimize-coding define.
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Performance Improvements:
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* OpenMP (parallel processing) improvements for these functions:
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- Rotate by 90 and 270 degrees (-rotate)
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1.3 (November 9, 2008)
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* AVI reader: Re-worked to be more robust against crash or DOS.
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* AVS reader: Re-worked to be more robust against crash or DOS.
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* DCM reader: Re-worked to be more robust against crash or DOS.
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* EPT reader: Re-worked to be more robust against crash or DOS.
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* FITS reader: Re-worked to be more robust against crash or DOS.
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* MTV reader: Re-worked to be more robust against crash or DOS.
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* PALM reader: Re-worked to be more robust against crash or DOS.
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* RLA reader: Re-worked to be more robust against crash or DOS.
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* TGA reader: Re-worked to be more robust against crash or DOS.
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* Avoid possible crash in GetImageCharacteristics() when substituting
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text in comment read from file.
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* Cineon reader: Fixed crash with broken file from Sami Liedes.
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* Palm reader: Fixed crash with broken files from Sami Liedes.
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* PICT reader: Fixed crash with broken files from Sami Liedes.
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* DPX reader: Validate file data better to avoid improper operation with
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intentionally (or accidentally) defective files.
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* XCF reader: Fixed crash with broken files from Sami Liedes.
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* Libbz2 is now detected for MinGW.
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* Install documentation under /usr/local/share/doc/GraphicsMagick by
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default, according to GNU conventions.
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* In PerlMagick, Dissolve composition was not working right.
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* FITS: Ensure that written format conforms to specification.
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- Don't accidentially convert CMYK images to RGB.
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- Eliminated a memory leak in the codec support detection code.
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* JPEG: Removed over-write of image->client_data.
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* PDF: Try to properly deal with reading rotated PDFs.
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* PNG: Fixed crash when writing PNG images with transparency and either
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optimize is requested, or the image is colormapped.
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* Configure: Fixed the --enable-magick-compat configure option, which
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* Configure: Fixed --without-magick-plus-plus so that it works again. This
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stopped working in the 1.2 release cycle.
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* Configure: Fixed MagickLibVersion text string generation so that it
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is now correct when a component of the release number exceeds '9'.
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Now components can safely count up to '99' before there is a problem.
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Performance Improvements:
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* OpenMP (parallel processing) improvements for these functions:
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- Affine transform (-affine -transform)
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- Average images (-average)
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- Black threshold (-black-threshold)
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- Channel import, export, and depth-setting (-channel, -depth)
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- Coalesce (-coalesce)
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- Colorize (-colorize)
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- Colorspace transformation (-colorspace)
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- Compare images ('compare' command)
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- Composition ('composite' command)
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- Convolution (-convolve, -edge, -emboss, -gaussian, -sharpen)
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- Contrast adjust (-contrast)
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- CycleColormap (-cycle)
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- Depth setting (-depth, -operator depth)
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- Despeckle (-despeckle)
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- Equalize (-equalize)
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- Gamma adjust (-gamma, -operator gamma)
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- Levels adjust image (-level)
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- Local adaptive threshold (-lat)
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- Median filter (-median)
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- Minify image (-minify)
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- Modulate image (-modulate)
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- Morph image (-morph)
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- Motion blur (-motion-blur)
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- Negate image (-negate)
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- Noise filter (-noise)
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- Normalize image (-normalize)
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- Ordered dither (-ordered-dither)
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- Operators (-operator)
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- Profile adjust (ICC) (-profile)
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- Random threshold (-random-threshold)
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- Resize image (-resize)
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- Raise image (-raise)
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- Rotate image (-rotate)
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- Shade image (-shade)
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- Shear image (-shear)
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- Solarize image (-solarize)
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- Spread image (-spread)
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- Statistics computation (identify -verbose)
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- Threshold channel (-threshold, -operator threshold)
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- Threshold image (-threshold)
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- Transparent (-transparent)
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- UnsharpMaskImage (-unsharp)
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- White threshold (-white-threshold)
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* Improved coder management performance.
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* XCF (GIMP) reader is much faster.
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* Use MAGICK_CODER_STABILITY environment variable to enable a subset
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of the coders based on their stability classification.
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* Use MAGICK_IO_FSYNC environment variable to cause written file to
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be synchronized to disk to avoid possible data loss on power fail.
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* Added 'compare' command to statistically or visually compare two
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* Added new channel operators (-operator):
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- Noise-Multiplicative
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* New composition operators (-compose):
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* Added -motion-blur to motion blur the image.
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* Mogrify and convert now support -black-threshold and -white-threshold.
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* MAT: Now supports reading compressed files.
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* FITS: Now supports 8, 16, 32 bit integer, float, and double images
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and writes correct FITS format.
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* DCRAW: Coder proxy module allows reading digital camera files as if
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they were natively supported.
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* New C API functions:
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- AddNoiseImageChannel(), add noise to an image channel.
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- BlurImageChannel(), blur an image channel.
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- GaussianBlurImageChannel(), gaussian blur an image channel.
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- ImportImageChannelsMasked(), import selected image channels.
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- SharpenImageChannel(), sharpen an image channel.
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- UnsharpMaskImageChannel(), unsharpmask an image channel.
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- New cache view interfaces to correct shortcommings of original
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ones. New interfaces are AcquireCacheViewPixels(),
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AcquireOneCacheViewPixel(), AcquireCacheViewIndexes(),
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GetCacheViewPixels(), SetCacheViewPixels(), and
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SyncCacheViewPixels(). The deprecated functions are
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AcquireCacheView(), GetCacheView(), SetCacheView(), and
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- GetCacheViewRegion() reports region bounded by a cache view.
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- GetCacheViewArea() reports area bounded by a cache view.
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- ExportViewPixelArea() exports a cache view as formatted pixels.
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- ImportViewPixelArea imports formatted pixels into a cache view.
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* Removed C API functions:
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* Magick++ C++ API improvements
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- Color class no longer considers transparent black to be an invalid
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- New Image methods addNoiseChannel(), blurChannel(),
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gaussianBlurChannel(), motionBlur(), randomThresholdChannel(),
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randomThresholdChannel(), sharpenChannel(), unsharpmaskChannel().
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Feature improvements:
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* -ordered-dither and -random-threshold may now be used to individually
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dither any named channel.
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* Mogrify and convert now support -minify to halve the image size.
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* Mogrify and convert now support -magnify to double the image size.
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* Fixes for CERT security alert TA04-217A described at
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"http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-217A.html".
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* AVI, BMP, & DIB security fixes.
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* PSD security fixes.
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* P7 format security fix.
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* Fix EXIF IFD stack overflow vulnerability.
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* SGI security fix for RLE encoding (CVE-2006-4144)
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* XCF security fix (CVE-2006-3743)
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* PALM heap overflow fix (CVE-2006-5456)
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* DCM security fix (CVE-2006-5456)
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* Fix for shell command injection in delegate code via file names)
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(CVE-2005-4601). Delegate execution is much more secure now.
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* Don't use filenames as printf specifications (CVE-2006-0082).
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* Fix integer overflow in DCM coder (CVE-2007-1797).
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* XWD integer overflow fix (CVE-2007-1797).
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* Implementation has replaced usage of strcpy, strcat, and strncat
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with the more security conscious strlcat and strlcpy.
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* DCM, DIB, XCF, XBM, and XWD security fix for integer overflow
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vulnerability (IDefense 09.19.07).
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* Do not access X11 or invoke convenience or stealth delegate programs
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based on the file extension. In particular, these file extensions are
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rejected for consideration as a format specifier: 'autotrace',
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'browse', 'dcraw', 'edit', 'gs-color', 'gs-color+alpha', 'gs-gray',
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'gs-mono', 'launch', 'mpeg-encode', 'print', 'scan', 'show', 'win',
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* The configure script now searches for a web browser in the order
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mozilla, firefox, and finally netscape.
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* When the user specifies the -units option, the current image
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resolution values are now re-scaled to match the new units.
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* Properly determine Ghostscript font location for Ghostscript 8.0 and later.
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* GraphicsMagick now successfully builds and passes all tests under
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Digital Unix 5.1, using the vendor compiler.
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* Ghostscript sometimes displays an error message and fails, yet it
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returns a success error code to GraphicsMagick. Verify that
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Ghostscript has updated the output file before attempting to use it.
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* Fixed a configure script syntax error when testing for trio.
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* When requesting a list of formats, all of the modules in the module
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search path are considered. Previously only the modules in the same
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directory as the LOGO module were listed.
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* Ensure that an image clip mask is respected by the negate algorithm.
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* The BMP writer was sometimes writing incorrect BMP v4 files.
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* Support reading and writing large PCX files.
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* The Red Hat source RPM was failing to install the -config scripts
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with execute permissions.
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* Fixed a bug which could cause possible truncation while cloning the
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* Ensure that MIFF files indicate the compression which was actually used.
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* Properly handle errors from libtiff so that corrupted images are not
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* Fix for stripped-TIFF reader. Discard extra samples beyond alpha in
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* Endian option now controls TIFF byte-order rather than bit-order.
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* TIFF writer can now write to pipes and other non-seekable output
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* JBIG writer was writing empty files for some libjbig releases.
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* Improved handling of corrupt GIF files.
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* Handle large SUN format images.
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* Properly compute image depth for 16-bit SGI image files.
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* For the gmdisplay program, ensure that only RGB data is sent to Windows.
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* Many memory leak fixes.
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* PDF writer is fixed so that Ghoscript 8.5 doesn't warn about the output.
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* PDF writer now writes proper output with CCITT compression.
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* Properly use fseeko() and ftello() if they are available.
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* Fixed a infinite loop bug in the XWD reader.
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* Fix minor memory leak in ProfileImage().
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* Fixed -level command parsing when a percent symbol is supplied within the
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argument rather than at the end.
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* Fix pixel scaling problem caused by floating point
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rounding error (noticed under AIX).
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* Fixed a memory leak in the GIF coder in the error return path.
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* Fix for SourceForge bug id 1353744 "MagickGetQuantumDepth doesn't work".
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* Fix for SourceForge bug id 1315109 "segfault in InitializeMagick(NULL)".
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* Fix for SourceForge bug id 1391421 "problem doing resize on 273x1 JPEG".
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* Fix for SourceForge bug id 1510075 "Failed to write PDF with JPEG compression".
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* Fix for SourceForge bug id 1572357 "GetOnePixel definition appears incorrect".
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* Fix for SourceForge bug id 1576616 Fix includedir variable in pkg-config files".
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* Fix for SourceForge bug id 1173713 "segfault in ModifyCache".
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* Fix for SourceForge bug id 1431805 "clip art wpg files cause access violation
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* Fix for SourceForge bug id 1743141 "Affine matrix option parsing".
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* Fix for SourceForge bug id 1625477 "Memory leak reading layered PSD Image".
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* Fix for SourceForge bug id 1878992 "literal square brackets in file
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name cause large delay and bug id 1783209 "converting runs slowly
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when subimage is specified".
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* Fix for SourceForge bug id 1883527 "compression of tiff-file has no effect".
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* Successfully read files in the form "file[123]".
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* Fix reading 12-bit grayscale JPEG.
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* Set image depth appropriately when importing image from X11 display.
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* Fix map resource tracking.
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* Fix reading recent variants of ImageMagick's MIFF format.
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* Output bilevel TIFF meeting the TIFF Class F specification.
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* A 'benchmark' subcommand is now available to benchmark the
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performance of any other arbitrary subcommand (e.g. 'convert').
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Feature improvements:
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* LZW compression is now enabled by default.
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* Support industry-standard subsampling notation like "4:2:2".
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* If gm is executed under a traditional alternate name (e.g.
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convert), it will invoke the appropriate sub-command. This allows
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use of hard links, symbolic links, or just copying 'gm' to the
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desired sub-command name in order to achieve 100% ImageMagick 5.5.2
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utility compatibility.
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* Provide the --enable-magick-compat option when configuring to install
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ImageMagick utilities compatibility links.
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* Identify -verbose output includes normalized (0.0-1.0) statistics.
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* Identify and convert now print "pixels per second" rates to help
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evaluate performance.
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* Added the identify +ping option to force reading the complete file.
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* The display program now supports the +progress option to disable any
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visual progress indication (and hourglass cursor) while loading images.
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* Support writing grayscale TGA files.
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* Provide explicit support for Rec 601 and Rec 709 grayscale spaces.
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* Include some support for a log RGB space based on the 2.048 density
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range as defined for the Cineon Digital Film System.
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* Added utilities command-line support for industry standard subsampling
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notation like 4:4:4 and 4:2:2.
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* Use MAGICK_IOBUF_SIZE to tune the size of the I/O buffer.
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* Use -type Bilevel, Grayscale, TrueColor, or TrueColorMatte to
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influence the type of image that Ghostscript returns.
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* Use '-define tiff:fill-order={msb2lsb|lsb2msb}' to control TIFF bit
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* The -version option now dumps a feature list as well as the build
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* The -endian option now supports the option 'native'.
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* A -monitor is added to enable progress monitoring for the command line
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* Use the -output-directory option to 'mogrify' to send output files to
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the specified directory.
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* Use the -create-directories option in conjunction with
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-output-directory and 'mogrify' to create any necessary subdirectories.
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* A Pixels resource limit is added. Use '-limit Pixels value' to limit
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the maximum number of pixels in an image to 'value'.
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* The already supported option '-type Optimize' is now honored by
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formats that need to choose a subformat based on the properties of
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the image. Grueling tests of many/all pixels are not performed
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unless '-type Optimize' is supplied.
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* Added a a -set option to the composite, convert, display, mogrify,
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import commands in order to allow setting an image attribute.
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* Display utility no longer defaults to reading from standard input if
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* May now be configured to use the umem memory allocation library
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available in Solaris 9, Update 3 and later, or from the portable umem
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Coder additions/improvements:
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* Replaced existing DPX "support" with all-new DPX support conforming
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to the SMPTE 268M-2003 standard.
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* Cineon reader completely rewritten.
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* TIFF coder is completely re-written. Now supports reading and
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writing RGB, CMYK, and grayscale, scanline-oriented TIFF images
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with arbitrary (1 to 32 bits) depth. Includes support for tiled
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TIFF, floating point TIFF, LogLuv TIFF, BigTIFF, arbitrary depths,
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and associated alpha.
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* TIFF coder now supports retrieving and saving XMP profiles.
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* MATLAB support is much improved and supports writing as well.
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* WPG reader now supports CTM translations.
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* ART format now supports writing.
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* Support 32-bit raw RGB images.
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* Support 32-bit raw CMYK images.
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* Support 32-bit raw gray images.
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* JP2 coder reads images in YCbCr colorspace and retrieves an embedded
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ICC ICM color profile if present.
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* Added ExportImageChannel() and ImportImageChannel() APIs to support
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exporting and importing pixel regions with an arbitary range of (1
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to 32) bits per quantum.
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* Added image leveling methods for Magick++.
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* Generalized GetImageAttribute() support for retrieving wildcarded
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attributes so that an identify -format specification like
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``"%[dpx:*]"`` works as expected.
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* Incorporated changes changes necessary so that GraphicsMagick can
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work with the Ch C/C++ interpreter from SoftIntegration at
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http://www.softintegration.com/.
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* Added MagickAllocFunctions() to allow the API user to replace the
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underlying memory allocator functions.
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* Added MagickMalloc() and deprecated AcquireMemory().
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* Added MagickCloneMemory() and deprecated CloneMemory().
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* Added MagickMallocArray() to safely allocate N items of size S.
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* Added MagickRealloc() and deprecated ReacquireMemory().
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* Added MagickFree() and deprecated LiberateMemory().
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Performance improvments:
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* The DispatchImage() and ConstituteImage() functions incorporate
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special case code for BGR, BGRO, BGRP, RGB, RGBO, and I formats (8
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bit only) in order to improve performance dramatically.
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* When writing very large JPEG images, don't enable Huffman compression
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since doing so requires libjpeg to buffer the entire image in memory.
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* When using the 'identify' -verbose option, -verbose must be specified
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twice in order to obtain the color count. This makes normal use of
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-verbose much faster.
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* Significantly improved read/write speed for bilevel and gray images.
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* TIFF I/O is considerably faster.
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* Postscript writer is 10-15X faster.
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* PNM formats writer is 10-100X faster.
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* Rotate by 90 or 270 degrees is 2-9X faster.
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Windows-specific improvements/changes:
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* For the MinGW and Cygwin builds, the Magick++ library is forced to
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build as a static library since otherwise C++ exceptions don't work.
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* MinGW cross-build is available from a Linux or FreeBSD host.
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* Determine location of Ghostscript fonts only once in order to improve
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* Updated bzip2 to 1.0.4.
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* Updated Jasper library to version 1.900.1.
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* Updated jbigkit to 1.6
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* Updated lcms to 1.17
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* Updated libpng to 1.2.27.
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* Updated libtiff to 3.8.2
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* Updated zlib to 1.2.3.
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* Libtiff supports LZW compression.
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* X11 is no longer part of the default build and will not be included
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in the distributed install packages (but can still be built).
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* Find latest Ghostscript which idenfies itself as "GPL Ghostscript".
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* Use GlobalMemoryStatusEx(), if available, to determine how much
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physical memory is available. Important for large-memory machines.
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* Fixed NTreaddir() so that it does not write beyond its buffer.
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* Fixed opendir() emulation function so it can't overwrite the stack.
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* FlashPIX library sources are no longer distributed in the Windows
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source package and building FlashPIX is disabled by default.
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FlashPIX may still be built by adding the library (separately
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* Fix bitmap handle leak in CropImageToHBITMAP() and ImageToHBITMAP().
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1.1 (Released April 4, 2004)
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* Semaphore fix which is necessary for proper multi-threaded operation.
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* Configure script fix to ensure that -lfpx is not supplied to the C
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compiler during subsequent tests since this fails on some systems.
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* Fix for East and West gravity computations.
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* System error reports (errno) associated with an exception are now
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correctly obtained from the context existing when the exception was
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thrown rather than the context of the reporting function.
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* JNG encoder fix. Files were being written with incorrect
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alpha_sample_value in the header. These can be repaired by reading
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them into GM 1.1 and rewriting them.
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* XPM fix to module registration.
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* PSD fix for index calculation when QuantumDepth>8.
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* Validate that geometry specifications only include allowed
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* SGI fix to save compression type while writing.
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* EXIF attributes were not being retrieved when requested.
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* Fix for bug when reading an image via a user-provided file
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* The reported image magick string is now always that of the original
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input file (it was sometimes being reported as the format produced by
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an intermediate delegate program).
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* Fixes to color profiling of CMYK images.
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* Memory leak fixed in DrawClipPath().
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* Arc drawing is fixed.
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* Command-line parsing bug under Linux due to Linux's sscanfs
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inability to parse strings like "0x1" as "%fx%f" is fixed.
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* Scaling of 5 and 6-bit colors was slightly incorrect in BMP, AVI,
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DIB, and TIM datastreams.
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* GM utility now reports an error rather than silently returning if
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an unsupported sub-command is provided.
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* TIFF coder was writing 16-bit per sample RGB images incorrectly on
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Performance improvements:
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* Texture tiling is now 7X faster.
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* Color profile processing speed improvements for colormapped images.
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Utilities enhancements:
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* For Unix, 'gm version' now includes a dump of the configure and
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* Logging of thrown exceptions is now supported. Use '-debug
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exception'. This is useful to learn when and where errors are
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* The -define option is added in order to support supplying
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additional options to coders without needing to add additional
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command line options or structure members.
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* The output of 'gm identify -verbose' now provides a nice dump
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* The -sampling-factor option now accepts as many HxV pairs as
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there are JPEG components. Omitted ones default to 1x1.
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* The convert and montage commands now support an -operator command to
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perform arithmetic and bitwise operations on specified image channels.
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Coder additions/improvements
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* The META coder supports wide characters for the IPTC and 8BIM
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* The XTRN coder now supports wide characters.
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* An "IMAGE" coder is provided which provides access to a large
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number of images (derived from XFig) suitable for use as patterns,
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* The "PATTERN" coder now returns an image pattern tiled to size
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(equivalent results to TILE:IMAGE:pattern). This is for ImageMagick
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* The CINEON coder now supports reading and writing images in CINEON
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"CIN" linear gray and RGB formats. The read support is still very
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weak, but it works for common images.
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* The JPEG coder now estimates the original JPEG quality and sampling
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factors and will reuse these options when writing JPEG if the image
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is of the same type and the option "-define JPEG:preserve-settings"
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* The JPEG-2000 coder now supports all Jasper library arguments using
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command line syntax similar to '-define jp2:rate=0.5'.
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* Reading and writting compressed SVG (SVGZ) is now supported.
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* The TXT coder now observes depth when writing.
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* The TIFF coder now outputs colormapped images with 1, 2, 4, and 8
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bits per sample in order to provide much smaller file sizes for
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images with very few colors.
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* Many TIFF coder enhancements. Now reads colormapped and grayscale
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images at arbitrary (even odd) bits-per-sample sizes. Now properly
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supports an opacity channel (at any bits-per-sample value) for
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grayscale images. Bilevel grayscale images are treated similar to any
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other grayscale image unless CCITT FAX3/FAX4 compression is
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requested. Now allows the user to specify an arbitrary
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bits-per-sample value for grayscale images (even odd values) using
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"-define tiff:bits-per-sample=value". Now automatically stores the
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image as TrueColor RGB pixels if the image compression is set to JPEG.
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TIFF files are now written in using the TIFF library's default endian
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order rather than always big endian.
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* The WPG coder now renders embedded WMFs.
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* The PS3 coder is completely re-written to work much better and
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support more features (see ChangeLog).
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Code structure enhancements:
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* Error handling has been improved and validated through testing.
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Some errors were being lost, unnecessarily ignored, or reported as
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something else entirely.
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* The number of error text messages to be maintained has been reduced
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by consolidating similar messages.
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* The memory allocator functions have been replaced with similar
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macros in order to eliminate warnings with GCC 3.3, avoid
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accidentally casting away const, and allow memory debuggers to
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report memory allocations and frees against the correct functions.
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The previously-used functions remain in the library for the purpose
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* <magick/xwindow.h> no longer depends on magick_config.h defines.
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* The text string localization code has been replaced with a simpler
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version written by Bill Radcliffe.
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* Added key,value "map" APIs (somewhat similar to C++'s <map>) for
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* Incorporated John Cristy's Wand API's in a new GraphicsMagickWand
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* API definition is no longer dependent on types which vary in size
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(e.g. size_t) depending on large file compilation options. This means
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that applications may now be compiled without any special large file
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options and still work properly with the library.
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* Thrown exceptions (ExceptionInfo structure) now include source
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file, source line, function name, and current system error number.
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* The GetMagickInfoArray() function is added to replace use of
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GetMagickInfo() for code which needs to access the coder list. This
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is necessary since invoking GetMagickInfo() may re-order the coder
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list, causing problems for code which traverses the list. Using
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GetMagickInfo() to access individual list elements is safe.
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* Added the CopyException function to support copying exception info
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from one structure to another.
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* Added the ReplaceImageInList function to replace an image in an
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* Added the DrawPeekGraphicContext function to access the current
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DrawInfo structure in the drawing context stack. Use of this
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function is not recommended since it voilates proper programming
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practices. It is added to support the Wand API's.
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* GetImageDepth() now returns an integral value between 1 and
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QuantumDepth and is no longer limited to the values 8, 16, and 32.
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* SetImageDepth() supports setting the image modulus depth to any
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integral value between 1 and QuantumDepth. This effects the effective
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numeric precision, not the storage depth, since the quantum storage
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type is still a Quantum.
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* GetImageChannelDepth() supports retrieving the modulus depth for a
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* SetImageChannelDepth() supports setting the modulus depth for a
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* ProfileImage is updated to handle alpha channels and grayscale
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* Added GetImageProfile() to retrieve a CMS profile from an image.
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* Added SetImageProfile() to attach a CMS profile to an image without
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adjusting the image pixels.
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* Added DeleteImageProfile() to remove a CMS profile from an image.
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* ConstituteImage() and DispatchImage() now support 'T' (transparency),
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'O' (opacity), and 'P' (pad) options.
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* CompositeImage() now supports CopyCyanCompositeOp,
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CopyMagentaCompositeOp, CopyYellowCompositeOp, and
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CopyBlackCompositeOp, composition operators.
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* GetColorHistogram() obtains a color histogram for the image.
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* QuantumOperatorImage() and QuantumOperatorRegionImage() support
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arithmetic and bitwise operations on specified image channels.
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* The semaphore.h header is no longer installed or included in the
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API headers since these functions are private interfaces.
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* Configure using --enable-symbol-prefix or define
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PREFIX_MAGICK_SYMBOLS to use the C preprocessor to prefix all library
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symbols with "Gm". This prevents library symbol conflicts with other
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* Adjusted a number of function option names so that they match the
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* Reading files (e.g. GIF) via a file descriptor is fixed.
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* The TRIO library may be used to provide a replacement for vsnprintf
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if the C library doesn't provide it. This improves security on old
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* Configure only configures for C & C++ languages.
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* Configure now does a better job of figuring out how to build a
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thread-safe library across multiple operating systems.
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* Configure incorporates a new mmap() test which tests the
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functionality which is needed so that mmap() is not unnecessarily
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rejected on a number of systems. This improves performance for large
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files on those systems.
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* Configure/build fixes for IBM's AIX operating system.
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Windows-specific improvements:
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* The static install package now uses the "uninstalled"
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configuration so that it does not depend on the Windows registry in
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order to run. This allows files from the static install package to
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be copied to another computer without running an installer.
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* The executable search path is extended at run-time to include the
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directory where the CORE DLLs reside in order to ensure that they
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* Adding the -t option to VisualMagick configure enables building
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all of the coders into one library in order to save build time and
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* The XTRN coder now supports wide characters.
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* LCMS library updated to version 1.10.
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* GMDisplay displays a checkerboard pattern behind transparent images.
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* Support is provided for issuing log messages to the Windows standard
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* Project files are now provided for use with Borland C++ Builder 6.0.
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* Updated LCMS version to 1.12.
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* Updated FreeType version to 2.1.5.
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* Updated JBIG-KIT to version 1.5.
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* Updated libpng to version 1.2.5.
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* Updated libwmf to version 0.2.8.2.
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* Updates zlib to version 1.2.1.
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* ActivePerl 5.8.1 Build 807 now supported.
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* GraphicsMagick now compiles using Visual Studio .NET 2003.
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1.0 (Released in May, 2003)
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===========================
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GraphicsMagick support services:
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* Master web site at "http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/".
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* Mailing lists, bug tracking, and forums available via
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"http://sourceforge.net/projects/graphicsmagick/".
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* CVSWeb via "http://cvs.graphicsmagick.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/".
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* CVS via cvs.graphicsmagick.org (find instructions at
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"http://www.graphicsmagick.org/www/cvs.html").
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* FTP via "ftp://ftp.graphicsmagick.org/pub/GraphicsMagick".
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Project maintenance improvements:
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* ChangeLog conforms to the GNU standard and all CVS commits include
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* CVS commit messages posted to graphicsmagick-commit mail list.
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* CVS commit messages contain CVSWeb URL references.
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Footprint changes from ImageMagick:
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* Library -lMagick renamed to -lGraphicsMagick.
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* Library -lMagick++ renamed to -lGraphicsMagick++.
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* Utilities consolidated into a single 'gm' utility (e.g. use 'gm
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* Script Magick-config renamed to GraphicsMagick-config.
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* Script Magick++-config renamed to GraphicsMagick++-config.
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* Headers installed under ${PREFIX}/include/GraphicsMagick.
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* PerlMagick namespace renamed from "Image::Magick" to "Graphics::Magick".
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* Pkgconfig files GraphicsMagick.pc and GraphicsMagick++.pc are
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installed in $libdir/pkgconfig to assist pkg-config users.
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* Coder modules installed to lib/GraphicsMagick-1.0/modules-Q8/coders.
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* Filter modules installed to lib/GraphicsMagick-1.0/modules-Q8/filters.
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Many performance enhancements:
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* Default QuantumDepth is 8 since this is adequate for most purposes
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and more efficient than 16.
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* The Magick++ demo (compiled with QuantumDepth=8 and -O2) runs about
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1.8X faster under SPARC/Solaris than the same demo with ImageMagick
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* Colorspace transformations are much faster.
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* Grayscale/monochrome image handling is much faster.
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* PseudoClass image handling is faster.
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* Text annotations using FreeType are much faster.
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* Image file I/O is much faster.
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* RLE-compressed MIFF reading much faster.
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Code structure enhancements:
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* All utility support functions moved to magick/command.c in order to
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significantly reduce link dependencies, allowing statically-linked
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programs to be smaller.
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* Use of MogrifyImage() elminated except for by utilities.
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* Re-builds due to changes to <magick/image.h> reduced by splitting the
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header into multiple headers.
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* ISO C '99 typedefs (gm_int16_t, gm_uint16_t, gm_int32_t, gm_uint32_t,
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gm_int64_t, gm_uint64_t) are available for use.
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Feature enhancements:
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* Module loader always enabled for shared builds to allow extension.
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* Loading of arbitrary filter modules (via -process option) supported
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under Unix as well as Windows.
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* SVG coder allows specifying size and initial background color.
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* JPEG-2000 coder (JP2) updated to work with Jasper 1.7.
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* HWB and HSL image colorspace translation support.
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* JNG/MNG/PNG format support tracks ImageMagick version.
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* BMP encoder can write 16-color indexed BMPs now as well as 2-color
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BMPs (not restricted to monochrome).
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* TIFF decoder now includes optimized support for tiled and stripped
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* The -random-threshold option (RandomThresholdImage()) is added to
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threshold an image to bilevel using random thresholding.
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* 100% successful test completion at all quantum depths (8/16/32).
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* A temporary file management subsystem is added to ensure that all
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temporary files are removed before program exit. Temporary files are
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created and used in a secure fashion to avoid the possibility that a
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"trojan" temporary file (e.g. a symbolic link, or a file containing
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unsafe content) is created before a delegate has the chance to write
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to it. The environment variable MAGICK_TMPDIR allows the user to
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specify where temporary files are created without altering where
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other programs create their temporary files. Temporary filenames are
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created in 8+3 format to hopefully be more acceptable to ralcgm.
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* When dithering is disabled, don't dither when converting to a
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PseudoClass, grayscale, or monochrome image. Disabling dithering
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may cause these translations to be much faster.
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* PICON format works with BLOBs.
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* No longer removes input file when pinging a FlashPIX file.
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* Arc drawing and texture fill fixes from ImageMagick.
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* Sample, scale and affine fixes from ImageMagick.
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* MIFF colormaps are now scaled properly while reading.
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* CMYK translation works for QuantumDepth=32.
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* ConstituteImage now works properly for grayscale images.
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* Built-in tilde expansion and filename globbing now works properly.
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* InitializeMagick now registers signal handlers to ensure that
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resources are released before program exit. This helps avoid
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temporary file leaks due to the user using "CONTROL-C".
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* The installed <magick/magick_config.h> header now only contains
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the few definitions required by the API headers. This should
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significantly reduce or eliminate conflicts with other package
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Windows platform enhancements:
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* Configure updated for Visual C++ 7.0.
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* OLE object (ImageMagickObject) re-written to work with Visual C++ 7.0
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* New function, CropImageToHBITMAP(), to return a region of the image
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as a Windows HBITMAP.
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* Use vsnprintf to format strings under Windows (safer).
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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On November 19, 2002, GraphicsMagick was created as a fork of
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ImageMagick, several days before the ImageMagick 5.5.2 release.
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The objectives of GraphicsMagick are to:
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* Use an open development model.
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* Encourage new developers to join the project.
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* Avoid unnecessary source code "churn".
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* Establish and preserve a stable API.
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* Use efficient coding practices which result in fast code.
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* Improve memory efficiency.
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* Use a release process which assures a working product.
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* Maintain an accurate ChangeLog.
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| Copyright (C) 2003 - 2009 GraphicsMagick Group
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This program is covered by multiple licenses, which are described in
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Copyright.txt. You should have received a copy of Copyright.txt with this
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package; otherwise see http://www.graphicsmagick.org/www/Copyright.html.
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