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- ImageMagick 2.3.7
- o Fixed the *client_name* "multiply defined" warnings on SGI
- (suggested by Dave@support.esd.sgi.com).
-
- o Split display(1) image commands into two menus activated with
- button 1 and 2.
-
- o Added a 'Trim Edges' command to display(1).
-
- o Added 'Edit Comment' to the display(1) command menu (suggested by
- pederl@hpubgon.norway.hp.com).
-
- o Use format type EPSI to produce a Postscript file with preview bitmap.
-
- o Improved the appearance of the widgets.
-
- o Press F1 to get help within display(1) (suggested by
- pederl@hpubgon.norway.hp.com).
-
- o display(1) now has a clip image command. You can define a region
- to clip with button 1 and use the arrow keys to adjust (suggested by
- pederl@hpubgon.norway.hp.com).
-
- o Use -label to display a header above the Postscript image
- (suggested by miller@netsun.mdc.com).
-
- o Added font browser, pen color dialog, and text paste to annotation
- mode in display(1) (suggested by pederl@hpubgon.norway.hp.com).
-
- o The 'Image Info' menu command now displays the image comment.
-
- o Added new image type, MAP, colormap intensities and indices.
-
- o Animate an image sequence with a single filename, see Magick.faq
- for details (suggested by rjohnson@shell.com).
-
- o Within display(1), you can draw a line and the image will rotate so
- that the line is horizonal (suggested by rjohnson@shell.com).
-
- o Within display(1), you can gamma correct the image (suggested by
- rjohnson@shell.com).
-
- o Added YUV3 image type, suitable for MPEG utilities (suggested by
- rjohnson@shell.com).
-
- o Added -comment option to ImageMagick utilities (suggested by
- pederl@hpubgon.norway.hp.com).
-
- o Added GIF87 image type (suggested by pederl@hpubgon.norway.hp.com).
-
- o When converting an image with an alpha channel to GIF, the
- transparency index is set (suggested by scott@shrug.org).
-
- o display(1) now rotates clipped images properly (thanks to
- rjohnson@shell.com).
-
- o Improved the scaling algorithm (suggested by rjohnson@shell.com).
-
- o Use -clip 0x0 to remove edges that are the background color
- (suggested by ruggier@ptsun00.cern.ch).
-
-
- ImageMagick 2.3.6
-
- o `info' was not declared static in network.c (thanks to
- farnham@wales.stortek.com).
-
- o TIFF images with a .Z or .gz extension are now recognized.
-
- o SUN monochrome images are now written correctly (thanks to
- dang@cogit.ign.fr).
-
- o Animate(1) now displays the scene basename correctly (thanks to
- hayashi@mach.mie-u.ac.jp).
-
- o Grayscale VIFF images are now created correctly (thanks to
- hayashi@mach.mie-u.ac.jp).
-
- o ImageMagick can now read OS/2 BMP image files (suggested by
- tdi@prizm.att.com).
-
- o ImageMagick no longer reads from the same pipe twice (thanks to
- yhori@trl.mei.co.jp).
-
- o The YIQ colorspace now produces correct colors (thanks to
- rjohnson@shell.com).
-
- o ImageMagick now hides the fact that an image is being
- uncompressed. Previously the montage(1) label would be prefixed
- with '|uncompressed -c' (thanks to rjohnson@shell.com).
-
- o Animate(1) displays the name of each image of a sequence in the
- window frame (thanks to lare@eos913c.gsfc.nasa.gov). Use -title
- to use a static window name.
-
- o You can now apply a separate gamma correction to the red, green,
- and blue channels of an image (thanks to
- lare@eos913c.gsfc.nasa.gov).
-
- o Fixed memory leak in ReadPNMImage (thanks to
- jp@pong.polytechnique.fr).
-
- o import(1) now descends the X tree structure by default (see
- -descend). import(1) also *grabs* the server while obtaining an
- image (thanks to hyde@snmail.jsc.nasa.gov and hstroyan@fc.hp.com).
-
- o Quantize stopped dithering in 2.3.4, this has been fixed (thanks to
- pederl@hpubgon.norway.hp.com).
-
- o Changed distribution so programs are all in the top level directory
- and the library routines are in the *magick* directory (suggested
- by rjohnson@shell.com).
-
-
- ImageMagick 2.3.5
-
- o Images with a huge number of unique colors sometimes did not
- quantize properly (thanks to rjohnson@shell.com).
-
- o -gravity Center no longer results in segmentation fault for
- montage(1) (thanks to rjohnson@shell.com).
-
- o Multi-part images (i.e. a multi-page Postscript document) are
- written with the filename followed by a period (\fB.\fP) and the
- scene number. You can now change this behavior by embedding a
- printf format specification in the file name.
-
- o ASCII PBM file and multi-part ASCII PNM files are now read
- correctly.
-
- o Previously the icon window had the same visual, depth, and colormap
- of the image window. It is now the same visual, depth, and
- colormap as the root window.
-
- o Improved color reduction algorithm-- average mean error per pixel
- has been reduced. Reducing an image to monochome has been
- improved.
-
- o Removed '-scale' from ImageMagick programs. Use '%' instead with
- -geometry (e.g. to double the image size, -geometry 200%). Also
- the aspect ratio of the image is now repected unless '!' is
- appended to the geometry specification.
-
- o You can now animate a sequence of images as the background pixmap
- of another window (suggested by mitchell@linus.mitre.org).
-
- o ImageMagick can now read Group 3 images (suggested by
- garyc@hds.com).
-
- o Added a reader for Photo CD images (requires hpcdtoppm).
-
- o Millisecond delay was wrong for animate(1) on System V machines.
-
- o Rendered DNA animation using POV. See
- contrib/ImageMagick.animation.tar.Z on ftp.x.org.
-
- o Bilevel TIFF images are now subsampled properly (thanks to
- fielding@library.Cornell.EDU).
-
- o ImageMagick can now read and write XPM images.
-
- o Specify the color for an X constant image as the filename (i.e.
- display xc:blue).
-
- o Precede the image file name with | to pipe to or from a system
- command.
-
-
- ImageMagick 2.3.4
-
- o Added interactive `Print' command to display(1) (suggested by
- rogerskm@eplrx7.es.dupont.com).
-
- o Added four widgets to display(1) and animate(1): 1) File Browser;
- 2) Dialog; 3) Notice; and 4) Menu.
-
- o The correct image scene number is now displayed correctly when
- using animate(1) (thanks to chucks@orl.mmc.com).
-
- o Changed Imakefiles to use XCOMM uniformly (thanks to
- dws@ssec.wisc.edu).
-
- o Added the infra-structure for an improved user interface.
-
- o Added -label option to montage(1).
-
- o LZW encoding now works properly for GIF images (bug alert from
- varady@dunsel.erenj.com).
-
- o Added preview bitmap to Encapsulated Postscript images.
-
- o Added -clip to import(1) (suggested by jb7716@csc.albany.edu).
-
- o Converting from full color to monochrome images now works
- properly.
-
- o ImageMagick now recognizes '.gz' compressed images (thanks to
- rpt@thak.jpl.nasa.gov).
-
- o ImageMagick now reads 16-bit TARGA images correctly (thanks to
- sjk@netcom.com).
-
- o ImageMagick can now read and write FITS images.
-
- o ImageMagick no longer clips large Postscript images (images larger
- than the default page).
-
- o ImageMagick can now read and write 24 bit PICT images.
-
- o You can now set your own error and warning handler (suggested by
- zins@forwiss.uni-erlangen.de).
-
- o If you quit the pan icon, the image is restored to its original
- size.
-
-
- ImageMagick 2.3.3
-
- o Fixed numereous small errors in the ImageMagick manual pages.
-
- o convert(1) can now scale an image as it converts it.
-
- o ImageMagick can now read and write ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush images.
-
- o ImageMagick now can write as well as read the X: format.
-
-
- ImageMagick 2.3.2
-
- o Added a frame option to montage(1) to put an ornamental border
- around each image tile.
-
- o On HP-SUX 9.0 there is a compiler bug. Try compiling image.c
- without optimization to prevent a bus error with montage(1).
-
- o A warning was not being properly generated on a write error
- (thanks to zins@forwiss.uni-erlangen.de).
-
- o New '-page' option to set the size and location for a Postscript
- page.
-
- o Use '-update' with display(1) to automatically updates the image
- being displayed when it is modified (thanks to lustig@dupont.com).
-
- o Made several window attributes changes in display(1) and animate(1)
- to make the windows more server friendly and efficient.
-
- o ImageMagick can now read and write Microsoft Windows bitmap images
- (thanks to Eric.Adams@dseg.ti.com for bug alert).
-
- o ImageMagick can now read and write Postscript Level II.
-
- o ImageMagick can now read and write SGI RGB images (thanks to
- mossip@vizlab.rutgers.edu for bug alert).
-
- o Setting -delay with display(1) will cause the images to loop
- continuously (suggested by muller@mafalda.inria.fr).
-
- o Image rotations of 270 degrees would sometimes produce a
- segmentation fault on HP's.
-
- o GIF files written with ImageMagick 2.3.1 were unreadable
- (thanks to mjensen@bbn.com).
-
- o GIF files with multiple images would sometimes cause program to
- core dump (thanks to mjensen@bbn.com).
-
- o Added -undercolor to mogrify(1) to control undercolor removal and
- black generation on CMYK images.
-
- o Converting to the XWD format would sometimes dump core (thanks to
- kairys@bastar.enet.dec.com).
-
- o X resources now work correctly when clients are invoked with full
- pathname, i.e. /usr/local/bin/display (thanks to respl@mi.uib.no).
-
- o The delay in animate(1) now defaults to 8 milliseconds (thanks to
- respl@mi.uib.no).
-
- o ImageMagick did not read MIFF images with large image directories
- correctly.
-
- o Increased the default panning window size from 64x64 to 96x96.
-
- o display(1) now retains proper input focus when using -backdrop.
-
- o ImageMagick automatically compresses/uncompresses images that end
- with '.z' with gzip/gunzip.
-
- o ImageMagick can now write Macintosh PICT image files.
-
- o ImageMagick can now read and write Truevision TARGA image files.
-
- o You can now trim off one pixel from any side of an image within
- display(1) by using <ctrl> and one of the arrow keys (thanks to
- tennyson@raptor.com).
-
- o Image Pixmaps in display(1) are now used only if the X resource
- `usePixmap' is set to True.
-
- o New segment(1) program. See SYNOPSIS for details.
-
- o ImageMagick now compiles properly on the Digitial Alpha (OSF1) and
- the HP with HPUX.
-
- ImageMagick 2.3.1
-
- o You can now change the color of the X constant image with
- -bordercolor:
-
- display -bordercolor red xc:
-
- o Color reduction to monochrome with dithering is improved (thanks
- to mutz@kodak.com).
-
- o Added EPS as a file type for Encapsulated Postscript.
-
- o Minor improvements to Postscript output.
-
- o Removed program XtoPS(1). There is an equivalent functionality
- with import(1):
-
- import image.ps import images.eps
-
- o The 'Info' command in animate(1) did not always reflect the proper
- image scene.
-
- o animate(1) sometimes displayed images with the wrong colormap on
- TrueColor or DirectColor visuals.
-
- o Popup windows were enlarged to make them easier to see.
-
- o Added a menu command to display(1) to load an image interactively
- (suggested by fouts@dallas.sgi.com).
-
- o montage was not allocating enough memory for it's directory (thanks
- to fouts@dallas.sgi.com).
-
-
- ImageMagick 2.3
-
- o Added -descend option to import(1). Obtain image by descending
- window hierarchy reading each subwindow and its colormap. The
- final image is guarenteed to have the correct colors.
-
- o If pen color matched background color any annotations would not
- appear (thanks to dws@ssec.wisc.edu).
-
- o Thanks to jacobsd@solar.cor2.epa.gov:
-
- . mogrify now recognizes '-' as stdin and stdout.
- . PPM, PGM, and PBM image types are now recognized.
- . PPM, PGM, and PBM images were not always scaled correctly.
-
- o The -density option is no longer ignored when creating Postscript
- images.
-
- o The -quality option is now recognized by display and montage.
-
- o ImageMagick can now read and write VIFF images.
-
- o SUN raster files were now properly read and written on the CRAY.
-
- o Popup queries can now be edited when the pointer is in the popup
- window.
-
- o Added -stereo option to combine program.
-
- o Removed MIFFtoSTEREO source.
-
- o Magnify window now includes pixel value with RGB color value for
- windows whose depth is 12 or less.
-
- o On occasion images were incorrectly identified as XWD.
-
- o On occasion images with alpha data were being incorrectly
- runlength-encoded.
-
- o Sometimes icon's had a private colormap. Icon's now use a shared
- colormap.
-
- o Keyboard accelerators did not work with -backdrop option.
-
- o Add new utility: combine-- combine images to create new images
- using digital compositing operators.
-
- o xtp failed under Solaris 2.1.
-
- o I486 compiler complained about includes within a function body of
- xtp/network.c (thanks to glenn@physics.su.OZ.AU).
-
- o I486 compiler complained about XWDfile.h being included twice
- (ReadXWD & WriteXWD) (thanks to glenn@physics.su.OZ.AU)
-
- ImageMagick 2.2.4
-
- o time between images did not always match the value specified on
- -delay.
-
- o Sped up and reduced memory requirement of dithering.
-
- o GIF images were corrupted on SVR4 (thanks to
- glenn@physics.su.OZ.AU).
-
- ImageMagick 2.2.3
-
- o Non-color reduced images were being written even though the color
- reduction option was specified (-colors). This affected images
- written as AVS, CMYK, and RGB.
-
- o Modified various sources to reduce lint warnings.
-
-
- ImageMagick 2.2.2
-
- o Dithering did not work properly on the Cray (due to right shift
- problem).
-
- o In most cases dithering requires 1/2 as much memory as previously.
-
- o Dithering was sped up by ~15%.
-
- o Occasionally the quantization error was reported incorrectly.
-
-
- ImageMagick 2.2.1
-
- o The number of colors reported with the -verbose option was on
- occasion incorrect.
-
- o Color quantization was improved and in some cases sped up ~10%.
-
- o Cleaned up image rotation code.
-
- o Added -shear to mogrify options.
-
- o Added a file type of HISTOGRAM to convert.
-
- o Sometimes PBM image files did not have the correct number of
- bytes.
-
- o Color reduced PPM images were being written at the full color
- resolution.
-
- o Keypresses are no longer accepted during image configuration.
-
- o Red, green, and blue values of a X constant image were set to the
- red intensity of the background color.
-
- o Clipped images did not show up correctly in the panning icon.
-
- o `animate' no longer shows images out-of-order if the image scene
- number is absent (thanks to kent@oddjob.uchicago.edu).
-
- o ImageMagick now recognizes the X resource class with the first
- letter of the client capitalized, i.e. 'Display.Visual: default'
- (thanks to dws@ssec.wisc.edu).
-
-
- ImageMagick 2.2
-
- o When displaying a composite MIFF image created with `montage',
- button 3 no longer displays a magnify window. Instead the tile at
- the mouse location is displayed. When the tile image is exited,
- the composite image reappears. This is effectively a visual image
- directory.
-
- o `montage' has a new gravity option for placing an image within
- a tile of the composite, i.e. CenterGravity.
-
- o `montage' has a new compose option for specifying which composite
- operation to use.
-
- o `montage' creates composite images with the `montage' keyword.
-
- o Updated MIFF manual page to reflect 'montage' image header
- keyword.
-
- o Add -colormap to `mogrify.' Use to color reduce an image to
- a set of colors you choose.
-
- o Some compilers have read-only strings. ImageMagick no longer
- writes on read-only strings.
-
- o For colormapped X servers, the color reduction has been sped up by
- trading image quality for processing time. See the README for
- details.
-
- o Latin1Upper was declared wrong in X.h.
-
- o Added unistd.h to display.h for strict ANSI compilers.
-
- o Changed long to time_t for calls to C time routine.
-
- o Multi-part GIF's can now be displayed or animated.
-
- o Fixed segmentation fault when reading multi-part images with
- animate, montage, or mogrify.
-
- o Multi-part MIFF images have the correct file name now.
-
- o An expose event for the Magnify window may occur before it is
- mapped. This caused display to fail on Solburne and HP's.
-
- o Using `-colorspace gray' with 'convert' correctly produces
- grayscale images.
-
- o Images are sorted by intensity for shared colormapped visuals.
- Some intensity intervals are made "more popular". This gives
- better image results when sharing colors with other applications.
-
- o All utilities correctly read multi-part TIFF images.
-
- o Image pixmap was not being updated correctly when pan icon appears
- (thanks to dws@ssec.wisc.edu).
-
- o Fixed ANSI warning on image composite code.
-
- o Panning uses a pixmap for faster panning speed.
-
- o Rotate.c now uses a table to force range limits.
-
- o range table in quantize.c is allocated from the heap instead of
- the stack.
-
- o adjusted the sensitivity for automatic dithering. Some JPEG images
- were not being dithered.
-
-
- ImageMagick 2.0
-
- o Dirk Wetzel <wetzel@forwiss.uni-erlangen.de> fixed the select
- statement in animate.c.
-
- o Eric Haines <erich@eye.com> fixed ReadRLEImage in decode.c. It
- previously did not check to see if the background color was present
- in the image.
-