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- CHANGE LOG for Independent JPEG Group's JPEG software
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- Version 5 24-Sep-94
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- Version 5 represents a nearly complete redesign and rewrite of the IJG
- software. Major user-visible changes include:
- * Automatic configuration simplifies installation for most Unix systems.
- * A range of speed vs. image quality tradeoffs are supported.
- This includes resizing of an image during decompression: scaling down
- by a factor of 1/2, 1/4, or 1/8 is handled very efficiently.
- * New programs rdjpgcom and wrjpgcom allow insertion and extraction
- of text comments in a JPEG file.
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- The application programmer's interface to the library has changed completely.
- Notable improvements include:
- * We have eliminated the use of callback routines for handling the
- uncompressed image data. The application now sees the library as a
- set of routines that it calls to read or write image data on a
- scanline-by-scanline basis.
- * The application image data is represented in a conventional interleaved-
- pixel format, rather than as a separate array for each color channel.
- This can save a copying step in many programs.
- * The handling of compressed data has been cleaned up: the application can
- supply routines to source or sink the compressed data. It is possible to
- suspend processing on source/sink buffer overrun, although this is not
- supported in all operating modes.
- * All static state has been eliminated from the library, so that multiple
- instances of compression or decompression can be active concurrently.
- * JPEG abbreviated datastream formats are supported, ie, quantization and
- Huffman tables can be stored separately from the image data.
- * And not only that, but the documentation of the library has improved
- considerably!
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- The last widely used release before the version 5 rewrite was version 4A of
- 18-Feb-93. Change logs before that point have been discarded, since they
- are not of much interest after the rewrite.
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