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<p>
This file was last updated on August 18, 2005.
<p>
Please note that this file records news for the associated development
branch and that each development branch has its own NEWS file.
<p>
Significant changes associated with GraphicsMagick 1.2 (not yet released)
<p>
Security fixes:<BR>
<UL>
<LI> Fixes for CERT security alert TA04-217A described at
"http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-217A.html".
<LI> AVI, BMP, & DIB security fixes.
<LI> PSD security fixes.
<LI> P7 format security fix.
<LI> Implementation has replaced usage of strcpy, strcat, and strncat
with the more security conscious strlcat and strlcpy.
</UL>
<p>
Bug fixes:<BR>
<UL>
<LI> The configure script now searches for a web browser in the order
mozilla, firefox, and finally netscape.
<LI> When the user specifies the -units option, the current image
resolution values are now re-scaled to match the new units.
<LI> Properly determine Ghostscript font location for Ghostscript 8.0 and later.
<LI> GraphicsMagick now successfully builds and passes all tests under
Digital Unix 5.1, using the vendor compiler.
<LI> Ghostscript sometimes displays an error message and fails, yet it
returns a success error code to GraphicsMagick. Verify that
Ghostscript has updated the output file before attempting to use it.
<LI> Fixed a configure script syntax error when testing for trio.
<LI> When requesting a list of formats, all of the modules in the module
search path are considered. Previously only the modules in the same
directory as the LOGO module were listed.
<LI> Ensure that an image clip mask is respected by the negate algorithm.
<LI> The BMP writer was sometimes writing incorrect BMP v4 files.
<LI> Support reading and writing large PCX files.
<LI> The Red Hat source RPM was failing to install the *-config scripts
with execute permissions.<BR>
<LI> Fixed a bug which could cause possible truncation while cloning the
image cache.<BR>
<LI> Ensure that MIFF files indicate the compression which was actually used.
<LI> Properly handle errors from libtiff so that corrupted images are not
output.<BR>
<LI> Fix for stripped-TIFF reader. Handle extra samples in scanline TIFFs.
<LI> JBIG writer was writing empty files for some libjbig releases.
<LI> Improved handling of corrupt GIF files.
<LI> Handle large SUN format images.
<LI> For the gmdisplay program, ensure that only RGB data is sent to Windows.
<LI> Memory leak fixes.
<LI> PDF writer is fixed so that Ghoscript 8.5 doesn't warn about the output.
<LI> Fixed a infinite loop bug in the XWD reader.
</UL>
<p>
Feature improvements:<BR>
<UL>
<LI> LZW compression is now enabled by default.
<LI> If gm is executed under a traditional alternate name (e.g.
convert), it will invoke the appropriate sub-command. This allows use
of hard links, symbolic links, or just copying 'gm' to the desired
sub-command name in order to achieve 100% ImageMagick 5.5.2 utility
compatibility.<BR>
<LI> Provide the --enable-magick-compat option when configuring to install
ImageMagick utilities compatibility links.
<LI> Identify -verbose output includes normalized (0.0-1.0) statistics.
<LI> Identify and convert now print "pixels per second" rates to help
evaluate performance.<BR>
<LI> Added the identify +ping option to force reading the complete file.
<LI> The display program now supports the +progress option to disable any
visual progress indication (and hourglass cursor) while loading images.
<LI> Support writing grayscale TGA files.
<LI> Provide explicit support for Rec 601 and Rec 709 grayscale spaces.
<LI> Include some support for a log RGB space based on the 2.048 density
range as defined for the Cineon Digital Film System.
</UL>
<p>
Coder additions/improvements:
<UL>
<LI> Replaced existing DPX "support" with all-new DPX support conforming
to the SMPTE 268M-2003 standard.<BR>
<LI> TIFF coder is completely re-written. Now supports reading and
writing RGB, CMYK, and grayscale, scanline-oriented TIFF images with
arbitrary (1 to 32 bits) depth. Includes support for tiled TIFF,
floating point TIFF, LogLuv TIFF, arbitrary depths, and associated
alpha.<BR>
<LI> TIFF coder now supports retrieving and saving XMP profiles.
<LI> Support 32-bit raw RGB images.
<LI> Support 32-bit raw CMYK images.
<LI> Support 32-bit raw gray images.
<LI> JP2 coder reads images in YCBCR colorspace and retrieves an embedded
ICC ICM color profile if present.
</UL>
<p>
API enhancements:<BR>
<UL>
<LI> Added ExportImageChannel() and ImportImageChannel() APIs to support
exporting and importing pixel regions with an arbitary range of (1 to
32) bits per quantum.
<LI> Added image leveling methods for Magick++.
</UL>
<p>
Performance improvments:
<UL>
<LI> The DispatchImage() and ConstituteImage() functions incorporate special
case code for BGR, BGRO, BGRP, RGB, RGBO, and I formats (8 bit only) in
order to improve performance dramatically.
<LI> When writing very large JPEG images, don't enable Huffman compression
since doing so requires libjpeg to buffer the entire image in memory.
<LI> When using the 'identify' -verbose option, -verbose must be specified
twice in order to obtain the color count. This makes normal use of
-verbose much faster.
</UL>
<p>
Windows-specific improvements/changes:
<UL>
<LI> For the MinGW and Cygwin builds, the Magick++ library is forced to
build as a static library since otherwise C++ exceptions don't work.
<LI> Determine location of Ghostscript fonts only once in order to improve
performance.<BR>
<LI> Updated LCMS to version 1.14.
<LI> Updated Jasper library to version 1.701.0.
<LI> Updated libpng to 1.2.8.
<LI> Updated zlib to 1.2.3.
<LI> Libtiff updated to support LZW compression.
<LI> Use GlobalMemoryStatusEx(), if available, to determine how much physical
memory is available. Important for large-memory machines.
<LI> Fixed NTreaddir() so that it does not write beyond its buffer.
<LI> Fixed opendir() emulation function so it can't overwrite the stack.
<UL>
<LI> FlashPIX library sources are no longer distributed in the Windows
source package and building FlashPIX is disabled by default. FlashPIX
may still be built by adding the library (separately distributed).
</UL>
</UL>
<p>
Significant changes associated with GraphicsMagick 1.1 (Released April 4, 2004)
<p>
Bug fixes:<BR>
<UL>
<LI> Semaphore fix which is necessary for proper multi-threaded operation.
<LI> Configure script fix to ensure that -lfpx is not supplied to the C
compiler during subsequent tests since this fails on some systems.
<LI> Fix for East and West gravity computations.
<LI> System error reports (errno) associated with an exception are now
correctly obtained from the context existing when the exception was
thrown rather than the context of the reporting function.
<LI> JNG encoder fix. Files were being written with incorrect
alpha_sample_value in the header. These can be repaired by reading
them into GM 1.1 and rewriting them.
<LI> XPM fix to module registration.
<LI> PSD fix for index calculation when QuantumDepth>8.
<LI> Validate that geometry specifications only include allowed
characters.<BR>
<LI> SGI fix to save compression type while writing.
<LI> EXIF attributes were not being retrieved when requested.
<LI> Fix for bug when reading an image via a user-provided file
descriptor.<BR>
<LI> The reported image magick string is now always that of the original
input file (it was sometimes being reported as the format produced by
an intermediate delegate program).<BR>
<LI> Fixes to color profiling of CMYK images.
<LI> Memory leak fixed in DrawClipPath().
<LI> Arc drawing is fixed.
<LI> Command-line parsing bug under Linux due to Linux's sscanfs
inability to parse strings like "0x1" as "%fx%f" is fixed.
<LI> Scaling of 5 and 6-bit colors was slightly incorrect in BMP, AVI,
DIB, and TIM datastreams.<BR>
<LI> GM utility now reports an error rather than silently returning if
an unsupported sub-command is provided.
<LI> TIFF coder was writing 16-bit per sample RGB images incorrectly on
little-endian CPUs.
</UL>
<p>
Performance improvements:<BR>
<UL>
<LI> Texture tiling is now 7X faster.
<LI> Color profile processing speed improvements for colormapped images.
</UL>
<p>
Utilities enhancements:<BR>
<UL>
<LI> For Unix, 'gm version' now includes a dump of the configure and
build parameters.<BR>
<LI> Logging of thrown exceptions is now supported. Use '-debug
exception'. This is useful to learn when and where errors are
reported.<BR>
<LI> The -define option is added in order to support supplying
additional options to coders without needing to add additional
command line options or structure members.
<LI> The output of 'gm identify -verbose' now provides a nice dump
of EXIF data.<BR>
<LI> The -sampling-factor option now accepts as many HxV pairs as
there are JPEG components. Omitted ones default to 1x1.
<LI> The convert and montage commands now support an -operator command to
perform arithmetic and bitwise operations on specified image channels.
</UL>
<p>
Coder additions/improvements<BR>
<UL>
<LI> The META coder supports wide characters for the IPTC and 8BIM
formats.<BR>
<LI> The XTRN coder now supports wide characters.
<LI> An "IMAGE" coder is provided which provides access to a large
number of images (derived from XFig) suitable for use as patterns,
or as test images.<BR>
<LI> The "PATTERN" coder now returns an image pattern tiled to size
(equivalent results to TILE:IMAGE:pattern). This is for ImageMagick
compatibility.<BR>
<LI> The CINEON coder now supports reading and writing images in CINEON
"CIN" linear gray and RGB formats. The read support is still very
weak, but it works for common images.
<LI> The JPEG coder now estimates the original JPEG quality and sampling
factors and will reuse these options when writing JPEG if the image
is of the same type and the option "-define JPEG:preserve-settings"
is supplied.<BR>
<LI> The JPEG-2000 coder now supports all Jasper library arguments using
command line syntax similar to '-define jp2:rate=0.5'.
<LI> Reading and writting compressed SVG (SVGZ) is now supported.
<LI> The TXT coder now observes depth when writing.
<LI> The TIFF coder now outputs colormapped images with 1, 2, 4, and 8
bits per sample in order to provide much smaller file sizes for
images with very few colors.<BR>
<LI> Many TIFF coder enhancements. Now reads colormapped and grayscale
images at arbitrary (even odd) bits-per-sample sizes. Now properly
supports an opacity channel (at any bits-per-sample value) for
grayscale images. Bilevel grayscale images are treated similar to any
other grayscale image unless CCITT FAX3/FAX4 compression is
requested. Now allows the user to specify an arbitrary
bits-per-sample value for grayscale images (even odd values) using
"-define tiff:bits-per-sample=value". Now automatically stores the
image as TrueColor RGB pixels if the image compression is set to JPEG.
TIFF files are now written in using the TIFF library's default endian
order rather than always big endian.
<LI> The WPG coder now renders embedded WMFs.
<LI> The PS3 coder is completely re-written to work much better and
support more features (see ChangeLog).
</UL>
<p>
Code structure enhancements:<BR>
<UL>
<LI> Error handling has been improved and validated through testing.
Some errors were being lost, unnecessarily ignored, or reported as
something else entirely.<BR>
<LI> The number of error text messages to be maintained has been reduced
by consolidating similar messages.<BR>
<LI> The memory allocator functions have been replaced with similar
macros in order to eliminate warnings with GCC 3.3, avoid
accidentally casting away const, and allow memory debuggers to
report memory allocations and frees against the correct functions.
The previously-used functions remain in the library for the purpose
of compatibility.<BR>
<LI> <magick/xwindow.h> no longer depends on magick_config.h defines.
<LI> The text string localization code has been replaced with a simpler
version written by Bill Radcliffe.<BR>
<LI> Added key,value "map" APIs (somewhat similar to C++'s <map>) for
internal use.
</UL>
<p>
API enhancements:<BR>
<UL>
<LI> Incorporated John Cristy's Wand API's in a new GraphicsMagickWand
library.<BR>
<LI> API definition is no longer dependent on types which vary in size
(e.g. size_t) depending on large file compilation options. This means
that applications may now be compiled without any special large file
options and still work properly with the library.
<LI> Thrown exceptions (ExceptionInfo structure) now include source
file, source line, function name, and current system error number.
<LI> The GetMagickInfoArray() function is added to replace use of
GetMagickInfo() for code which needs to access the coder list. This
is necessary since invoking GetMagickInfo() may re-order the coder
list, causing problems for code which traverses the list. Using
GetMagickInfo() to access individual list elements is safe.
<LI> Added the CopyException function to support copying exception info
from one structure to another.<BR>
<LI> Added the ReplaceImageInList function to replace an image in an
image list.<BR>
<LI> Added the DrawPeekGraphicContext function to access the current
DrawInfo structure in the drawing context stack. Use of this
function is not recommended since it voilates proper programming
practices. It is added to support the Wand API's.
<LI> GetImageDepth() now returns an integral value between 1 and
QuantumDepth and is no longer limited to the values 8, 16, and 32.
<LI> SetImageDepth() supports setting the image modulus depth to any
integral value between 1 and QuantumDepth. This effects the effective
numeric precision, not the storage depth, since the quantum storage
type is still a Quantum.<BR>
<LI> GetImageChannelDepth() supports retrieving the modulus depth for a
specified channel.<BR>
<LI> SetImageChannelDepth() supports setting the modulus depth for a
specified channel.<BR>
<LI> ProfileImage is updated to handle alpha channels and grayscale
images.<BR>
<LI> Added GetImageProfile() to retrieve a CMS profile from an image.
<LI> Added SetImageProfile() to attach a CMS profile to an image without
adjusting the image pixels.<BR>
<LI> Added DeleteImageProfile() to remove a CMS profile from an image.
<LI> ConstituteImage() and DispatchImage() now support 'T' (transparency),
'O' (opacity), and 'P' (pad) options.
<LI> CompositeImage() now supports CopyCyanCompositeOp,
CopyMagentaCompositeOp, CopyYellowCompositeOp, and
CopyBlackCompositeOp, composition operators.
<LI> GetColorHistogram() obtains a color histogram for the image.
<LI> QuantumOperatorImage() and QuantumOperatorRegionImage() support
arithmetic and bitwise operations on specified image channels.
<LI> The semaphore.h header is no longer installed or included in the
API headers since these functions are private interfaces.
<LI> Configure using --enable-symbol-prefix or define
PREFIX_MAGICK_SYMBOLS to use the C preprocessor to prefix all library
symbols with "Gm". This prevents library symbol conflicts with other
libraries.
</UL>
<p>
PerlMagick fixes:<BR>
<UL>
<LI> Adjusted a number of function option names so that they match the
documentation.<BR>
<LI> Memory leak fixed.
<LI> Reading files (e.g. GIF) via a file descriptor is fixed.
</UL>
<p>
Build improvements:
<UL>
<LI> The TRIO library may be used to provide a replacement for vsnprintf
if the C library doesn't provide it. This improves security on old
systems.<BR>
<LI> Configure only configures for C & C++ languages.
<LI> Configure now does a better job of figuring out how to build a
thread-safe library across multiple operating systems.
<LI> Configure incorporates a new mmap() test which tests the
functionality which is needed so that mmap() is not unnecessarily
rejected on a number of systems. This improves performance for large
files on those systems.<BR>
<LI> Configure/build fixes for IBM's AIX operating system.
</UL>
<p>
Windows-specific improvements:<BR>
<UL>
<LI> The static install package now uses the "uninstalled"
configuration so that it does not depend on the Windows registry in
order to run. This allows files from the static install package to
be copied to another computer without running an installer.
<LI> The executable search path is extended at run-time to include the
directory where the CORE DLLs reside in order to ensure that they
are found.<BR>
<LI> Adding the -t option to VisualMagick configure enables building
all of the coders into one library in order to save build time and
simplify linkage.<BR>
<LI> The XTRN coder now supports wide characters.
<LI> LCMS library updated to version 1.10.
<LI> GMDisplay displays a checkerboard pattern behind transparent images.
<LI> Support is provided for issuing log messages to the Windows standard
logging system.<BR>
<LI> Project files are now provided for use with Borland C++ Builder 6.0.
<LI> Updated LCMS version to 1.12.
<LI> Updated FreeType version to 2.1.5.
<LI> Updated JBIG-KIT to version 1.5.
<LI> Updated libpng to version 1.2.5.
<LI> Updated libwmf to version 0.2.8.2.
<LI> Updates zlib to version 1.2.1.
<LI> ActivePerl 5.8.1 Build 807 now supported.
<LI> GraphicsMagick now compiles using Visual Studio .NET 2003.
</UL>
<p>
<HR>
Significant changes associated with GraphicsMagick 1.0 (Released in May, 2003)
<p>
GraphicsMagick support services:<BR>
<UL>
<LI> Master web site at "http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/".
<LI> Mailing lists, bug tracking, and forums available via
"http://sourceforge.net/projects/graphicsmagick/".
<LI> CVSWeb via "http://cvs.graphicsmagick.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/".
<LI> CVS via cvs.graphicsmagick.org (find instructions at
"http://www.graphicsmagick.org/www/cvs.html").
<LI> FTP via "ftp://ftp.graphicsmagick.org/pub/GraphicsMagick".
</UL>
<p>
Project maintenance improvements:<BR>
<UL>
<LI> ChangeLog conforms to the GNU standard and all CVS commits include
useful log messages.<BR>
<LI> CVS commit messages posted to graphicsmagick-commit mail list.
<LI> CVS commit messages contain CVSWeb URL references.
</UL>
<p>
Footprint changes from ImageMagick:<BR>
<UL>
<LI> Library -lMagick renamed to -lGraphicsMagick.
<LI> Library -lMagick++ renamed to -lGraphicsMagick++.
<LI> Utilities consolidated into a single 'gm' utility (e.g. use 'gm
convert').<BR>
<LI> Script Magick-config renamed to GraphicsMagick-config.
<LI> Script Magick++-config renamed to GraphicsMagick++-config.
<LI> Headers installed under ${PREFIX}/include/GraphicsMagick.
<LI> PerlMagick namespace renamed from "Image::Magick" to "Graphics::Magick".
<LI> Pkgconfig files GraphicsMagick.pc and GraphicsMagick++.pc are
installed in $libdir/pkgconfig to assist pkg-config users.
<LI> Coder modules installed to lib/GraphicsMagick-1.0/modules-Q8/coders.
<LI> Filter modules installed to lib/GraphicsMagick-1.0/modules-Q8/filters.
</UL>
<p>
Many performance enhancements:<BR>
<UL>
<LI> Default QuantumDepth is 8 since this is adequate for most purposes
and more efficient than 16.<BR>
<LI> The Magick++ demo (compiled with QuantumDepth=8 and -O2) runs about
1.8X faster under SPARC/Solaris than the same demo with ImageMagick
5.5.4.<BR>
<LI> Colorspace transformations are much faster.
<LI> Grayscale/monochrome image handling is much faster.
<LI> PseudoClass image handling is faster.
<LI> Text annotations using FreeType are much faster.
<LI> Image file I/O is much faster.
<LI> RLE-compressed MIFF reading much faster.
</UL>
<p>
Code structure enhancements:<BR>
<UL>
<LI> All utility support functions moved to magick/command.c in order to
significantly reduce link dependencies, allowing statically-linked
programs to be smaller.<BR>
<LI> Use of MogrifyImage() elminated except for by utilities.
<LI> Re-builds due to changes to <magick/image.h> reduced by splitting the
header into multiple headers.<BR>
<LI> ISO C '99 typedefs (gm_int16_t, gm_uint16_t, gm_int32_t, gm_uint32_t,
gm_int64_t, gm_uint64_t) are available for use.
</UL>
<p>
Feature enhancements:<BR>
<UL>
<LI> Module loader always enabled for shared builds to allow extension.
<LI> Loading of arbitrary filter modules (via -process option) supported
under Unix as well as Windows.<BR>
<LI> SVG coder allows specifying size and initial background color.
<LI> JPEG-2000 coder (JP2) updated to work with Jasper 1.7.
<LI> HWB and HSL image colorspace translation support.
<LI> JNG/MNG/PNG format support tracks ImageMagick version.
<LI> BMP encoder can write 16-color indexed BMPs now as well as 2-color
BMPs (not restricted to monochrome).
<LI> TIFF decoder now includes optimized support for tiled and stripped
<STRONG>TIFF.</STRONG><BR>
<LI> The -random-threshold option (RandomThresholdImage()) is added to
threshold an image to bilevel using random thresholding.
</UL>
<p>
Major bug fixes:<BR>
<UL>
<LI> 100% successful test completion at all quantum depths (8/16/32).
<LI> A temporary file management subsystem is added to ensure that all
temporary files are removed before program exit. Temporary files are
created and used in a secure fashion to avoid the possibility that a
"trojan" temporary file (e.g. a symbolic link, or a file containing
unsafe content) is created before a delegate has the chance to write
to it. The environment variable MAGICK_TMPDIR allows the user to
specify where temporary files are created without altering where
other programs create their temporary files. Temporary filenames are
created in 8+3 format to hopefully be more acceptable to ralcgm.
<LI> When dithering is disabled, don't dither when converting to a
PseudoClass, grayscale, or monochrome image. Disabling dithering
may cause these translations to be much faster.
<LI> PICON format works with BLOBs.
<LI> No longer removes input file when pinging a FlashPIX file.
<LI> Arc drawing and texture fill fixes from ImageMagick.
<LI> Sample, scale and affine fixes from ImageMagick.
<LI> MIFF colormaps are now scaled properly while reading.
<LI> CMYK translation works for QuantumDepth=32.
<LI> ConstituteImage now works properly for grayscale images.
<LI> Built-in tilde expansion and filename globbing now works properly.
<LI> InitializeMagick now registers signal handlers to ensure that
resources are released before program exit. This helps avoid
temporary file leaks due to the user using "CONTROL-C".
<LI> The installed <magick/magick_config.h> header now only contains
the few definitions required by the API headers. This should
significantly reduce or eliminate conflicts with other package
headers.
</UL>
<p>
Windows platform enhancements:<BR>
<UL>
<LI> Configure updated for Visual C++ 7.0.
<LI> OLE object (ImageMagickObject) re-written to work with Visual C++ 7.0
<LI> New function, CropImageToHBITMAP(), to return a region of the image
as a Windows HBITMAP.<BR>
<LI> Use vsnprintf to format strings under Windows (safer).
</UL>
<p>
<HR>
On November 19, 2002, GraphicsMagick was created as a fork of
ImageMagick, several days before the ImageMagick 5.5.2 release.
<p>
The objectives of GraphicsMagick are to:
<UL>
<LI> Use an open development model.
<LI> Encourage new developers to join the project.
<LI> Avoid unnecessary source code "churn".
<LI> Establish and preserve a stable API.
<LI> Use efficient coding practices which result in fast code.
<LI> Improve memory efficiency.
<LI> Use a release process which assures a working product.
<LI> Maintain an accurate ChangeLog.
</UL>
<p>
<HR>
Copyright (C) 2003 GraphicsMagick Group
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