TIFF CHANGE INFORMATION
This document describes the changes made to the software between the
previous and current versions (see above).
If you don't find something listed here, then it was not done in this
timeframe, or it was not considered important enough to be mentioned.
The following information is located here:
CHANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:
- bit order was corrected for Pentium systems
- a new define, HOST_BIGENDIAN, was added for code that
wants to statically use information about native cpu byte order
CHANGES IN LIBTIFF:
- the G3/G4 decoder was replaced by a new one that is faster and
has smaller state tables
- Niles Ritter's client tag extension hooks were added
- a new routine TIFFCurrentDirOffset was added for
applications that want to find out the file offset of a TIFF directory
- the calculation of the number of strips in an image was corected
for images with certain esoteric configurations
- a potential memory leak (very unlikely) was plugged
- the TIFFReadRGBAImage support was completely rewritten
and new, more flexible support was added for reading images into
a fixed-format raster
- YCbCr to RGB conversion done in the TIFFReadRGBAImage support
was optimized
- a bug in JPEG support calculation of strip size was corrected
- the LZW decoder was changed to initialize the code table to zero
to lessen potential problems that arise when invalid data is decoded
- tiffcomp.h is now aware of OS/2
- some function prototypes in tiffio.h and tiffiop.h
that contained parameter
names have been changed to avoid complaints from certain compilers
CHANGES IN THE PORTABILITY SUPPORT:
- Makefile.in has been corrected to use the parameters
chosen by the configure script
CHANGES IN THE TOOLS:
- fax2ps has been rewritten and moved over from the user
contributed software
- an uninitialized variable in pal2rgb has been fixed
- ras2tiff now converts 24-bit RGB raster data so that
samples are written in the proper order
- tiff2ps has been updated to include fixes
and enhancements from Alberto Accomazzi
- tiffcp now has a -o option to select a directory
by file offset
- tiffinfo is now capable of displaying the raw undecoded
image data in a file
- tiffgt has been rewritten to use the new TIFFRGBAImage
support and to handle multiple files
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Sam Leffler / sam@engr.sgi.com
Last updated $Date: 1997/04/04 21:09:45 $.