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- <B><FONT SIZE=+3>T</FONT>IFF <FONT SIZE=+2>C</FONT>HANGE <FONT SIZE=+2>I</FONT>NFORMATION</B>
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- <B>Current Version</B>: v3.4beta016<BR>
- <B>Previous Version</B>: <A HREF=v3.4beta007.html>v3.4beta007</A><BR>
- <B>Master FTP Site</B>: <A HREF="ftp://ftp.sgi.com/graphics/tiff">ftp.sgi.com (192.48.153.1), directory graphics/tiff</A><BR>
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- This document describes the changes made to the software between the
- <I>previous</I> and <I>current</I> 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:
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- <LI><A HREF="#configure">Changes in the software configuration</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#libtiff">Changes in libtiff</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#tools">Changes in the tools</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#man">Changes in the manual pages</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#html">Changes in the documentation</A>
- <LI><A HREF="#contrib">Changes in contributed software</A>
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- <A NAME="configure"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:</B></A>
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- <LI>support was added for configuring the Deflate codec
- <LI>support was added for the HTML documentation
- <LI>codecs that are not configured for inclusion in the library
- are no longer compiled
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- <A NAME="libtiff"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:</B></A>
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- <LI>support was added for registering new codecs external to the library
- and for overriding the codecs that are builtin to the library
- <LI>emulation support for the old <TT>DataType</TT> tag was improved
- <LI>suppport was added for the <TT>SMinSampleValue</TT>
- and <TT>SMaxSampleValue</TT> tags
- <LI>the library no longer ignores <TT>TileWidth</TT> and <TT>TileLength</TT>
- tags whose values are not a multiple of 16 (per the spec); this
- permits old, improperly written, images to be read
- <LI>the support for the <TT>Predictor</TT> tag was placed in a reusable
- module so that it can be shared by multiple codecs
- <LI>experimental compression support was added for the Deflate algorithm
- (using the freely available zlib package)
- <LI>a new routine, <TT>TIFFWriteBufferSetup</TT> was added a la the
- routine <TT>TIFFReadBufferSetup</TT>
- <LI>the DSO version of the library is now statically linked with the
- JPEG and Deflate libraries; this means applications that link against
- the DSO do not also need to link against these ancillary libraries
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- <A NAME="tools"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE TOOLS:</B></A>
- <UL>
- <LI>all the tools now use common code to process compress-oriented arguments
- <LI><TT>tiffdump</TT> should now compile on a Macintosh with MPW
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- <P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right>
- <A NAME="man"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE MANUAL PAGES:</B></A>
- <UL>
- <LI>everything was updated
- </UL>
- <P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right>
- <A NAME="html"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE DOCUMENTATION:</B></A>
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- <LI>everything was updated
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- <P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right>
- <A NAME="contrib"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN CONTRIBUTED SOFTWARE:</B></A>
- <UL>
- <LI><B>contrib/dbs/xtiff</B> was made to compile
- <LI><B>contrib/mac-mpw</B> is new support for compiling the software on
- a Macintosh under MPW; consult <A HREF=build.html#Mac>the documentation</A>
- for details
- <LI><B>contrib/tags</B> is information on how to use the tag extenion
- facilities; consult
- <A HREF=../contrib/tags/README>contrib/tags/README</A> for details
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- <A HREF="sam.html">Sam Leffler</A> / <A HREF="mailto:sam@engr.sgi.com">sam@engr.sgi.com</A>
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