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ARCHIVE LOCATIONS
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[Version 4A is a beta-test release and will not be publicly archived.
The following paragraphs refer to the most recent official release.]
The "official" archive site for this software is ftp.uu.net (Internet
address 137.39.1.9 or 192.48.96.9). The most recent released version can
always be found there in directory graphics/jpeg. This particular version
will be archived as jpegsrc.v4.tar.Z. If you are on the Internet, you can
retrieve files from UUNET by anonymous FTP. If you don't have FTP access,
UUNET's archives are also available via UUCP; contact postmaster@uunet.uu.net
for information on retrieving files that way.
Numerous Internet sites maintain copies of the UUNET files; in particular,
you can probably find a copy at any site that archives comp.sources.misc
submissions. However, only ftp.uu.net is guaranteed to have the latest
official version.
You can also obtain this software from CompuServe, in the GRAPHSUPPORT forum
(GO PICS), library 15; this version will be file jpsrc4.zip. Again,
CompuServe is not guaranteed to have the very latest version.
The JPEG FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) article is a useful source of
general information about JPEG. It is updated constantly and therefore
is not included in this distribution. The FAQ is posted every two weeks
to Usenet newsgroups comp.graphics, news.answers, and other groups. You
can always obtain the latest version from the news.answers archive at
rtfm.mit.edu (18.172.1.27). By FTP, fetch /pub/usenet/news.answers/jpeg-faq.
If you don't have FTP, send e-mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with body
"send usenet/news.answers/jpeg-faq".
SUPPORTING SOFTWARE
===================
You will probably want Jef Poskanzer's PBMPLUS image software, which provides
many useful operations on PPM-format image files. In particular, it can
convert PPM images to and from a wide range of other formats. You can FTP
this free software from export.lcs.mit.edu (contrib/pbmplus*.tar.Z) or
ftp.ee.lbl.gov (pbmplus*.tar.Z). Unfortunately PBMPLUS is not nearly as
portable as the JPEG software is; you are likely to have difficulty making it
work on any non-Unix machine.
If you are using X Windows you might want to use the xv or xloadimage viewers
to save yourself the trouble of converting PPM to some other format. Both of
these can be found in the contrib directory at export.lcs.mit.edu. Actually,
xv version 2.00 and up incorporates our software and thus can read and write
JPEG files directly. (NOTE: since xv internally reduces all images to 8
bits/pixel, a JPEG file written by xv will not be very high quality; and xv
cannot fully exploit a 24-bit display. These problems are expected to go away
in the next xv release, planned for early 1993. In the meantime, use
xloadimage for 24-bit displays.)
For DOS machines, Lee Crocker's free Piclab program is a useful companion to
the JPEG software. The latest version, currently 1.91, is available by FTP
from SIMTEL20 and its various mirror sites, file <msdos.graphics>piclb191.zip.
CompuServe also has it, in the same library as the JPEG software.
SOFTWARE THAT'S NO HELP AT ALL
==============================
Handmade Software's shareware PC program GIF2JPG produces files that are
totally incompatible with our programs. They use a proprietary format that is
an amalgam of GIF and JPEG representations. However, you can force GIF2JPG
to produce compatible files with its -j switch, and their decompression
program JPG2GIF can read our files (at least ones produced with our default
option settings).
Some commercial JPEG implementations are also incompatible as of this writing,
especially programs released before summer 1991. The root of the problem is
that the ISO JPEG committee failed to specify a concrete file format. Some
vendors "filled in the blanks" on their own, creating proprietary formats that
no one else could read. (For example, none of the early commercial JPEG
implementations for the Macintosh were able to exchange compressed files.)
The file format we have adopted is called JFIF (see REFERENCES). This format
has been agreed to by a number of major commercial JPEG vendors, and we expect
that it will become the de facto standard. JFIF is a minimal representation;
work is also going forward to incorporate JPEG compression into the TIFF 6.0
standard, for use in "high end" applications that need to record a lot of
additional data about an image. We intend to support TIFF 6.0 in the future.
We hope that these two formats will be sufficient and that other, incompatible
JPEG file formats will not proliferate.
Indeed, part of the reason for developing and releasing this free software is
to help force rapid convergence to de facto standards for JPEG file formats.
SUPPORT STANDARD, NON-PROPRIETARY FORMATS: demand JFIF or TIFF 6.0!
LEGAL ISSUES
============
Comments for release 4A of 18-Feb-93
------------------------------------
This distribution contains a BETA TEST release of the Independent JPEG
Group's free JPEG software. You are welcome to redistribute this software and
to use it for any purpose, subject to the conditions under LEGAL ISSUES, below.
Useful information can also be found in the JPEG FAQ (Frequently Asked
Questions) article; see ARCHIVE LOCATIONS above to obtain the FAQ article.
This software is still undergoing revision. Updated versions may be obtained
by FTP or UUCP to UUNET and other archive sites; see ARCHIVE LOCATIONS below
for details.
Serious users of this software (particularly those incorporating it into
larger programs) should contact jpeg-info@uunet.uu.net to be added to our
electronic mailing list. Mailing list members are notified of updates and
have a chance to participate in technical discussions, etc.
This software is the work of Tom Lane, Philip Gladstone, Luis Ortiz, Lee
Crocker, George Phillips, Ge' Weijers, and other members of the Independent
JPEG Group.
DISCLAIMER
----------
THIS SOFTWARE IS NOT COMPLETE NOR FULLY DEBUGGED. It is not guaranteed to be
useful for anything, nor to be compatible with subsequent releases, nor to be
an accurate implementation of the JPEG standard. (See LEGAL ISSUES for even
more disclaimers.)
Despite that, we believe that this software is pretty good, and if you find
any problems with it, we'd like to know about them. Please report problems
by e-mail to jpeg-info@uunet.uu.net.
COPYRIGHT
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This software is copyright (C) 1992, Thomas G. Lane.
The Atari specific parts are (C)1993 Frank Möhle.
The authors make NO WARRANTY or representation, either express or implied,
with respect to this software, its quality, accuracy, merchantability, or
fitness for a particular purpose. This software is provided "AS IS", and you,
its user, assume the entire risk as to its quality and accuracy.
Permission is hereby granted to use, copy, modify, and distribute this
software (or portions thereof) for any purpose, without fee, subject to these
conditions:
(1) If any part of the source code for this software is distributed, then this
README file must be included, with this copyright and no-warranty notice
unaltered; and any additions, deletions, or changes to the original files
must be clearly indicated in accompanying documentation.
(2) If only executable code is distributed, then the accompanying
documentation must state that "this software is based in part on the work of
the Independent JPEG Group".
(3) Permission for use of this software is granted only if the user accepts
full responsibility for any undesirable consequences; the authors accept
NO LIABILITY for damages of any kind.
Permission is NOT granted for the use of any IJG author's name or company name
in advertising or publicity relating to this software or products derived from
it. This software may be referred to only as "the Independent JPEG Group's
software".
We specifically permit and encourage the use of this software as the basis of
commercial products, provided that all warranty or liability claims