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  4. Changes in TIFF v3.4beta024
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  10. <B><FONT SIZE=+3>T</FONT>IFF <FONT SIZE=+2>C</FONT>HANGE <FONT SIZE=+2>I</FONT>NFORMATION</B>
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  14. <B>Current Version</B>: v3.4beta024<BR>
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  20. This document describes the changes made to the software between the
  21. <I>previous</I> and <I>current</I> versions (see above).
  22. If you don't find something listed here, then it was not done in this
  23. timeframe, or it was not considered important enough to be mentioned.
  24. The following information is located here:
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  26. <LI><A HREF="#configure">Changes in the software configuration</A>
  27. <LI><A HREF="#libtiff">Changes in libtiff</A>
  28. <LI><A HREF="#tools">Changes in the tools</A>
  29. <LI><A HREF="#man">Changes in the manual pages</A>
  30. <LI><A HREF="#contrib">Changes in the contributed software</A>
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  33. <A NAME="configure"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:</B></A>
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  35. <LI>It is now possible to setup the software to build only the
  36. library; configure reconizes this is the intent when the
  37. <B>VERSION</B>, <B>tiff.alpha</B>, and <B>tif_version.c</B>
  38. files are in the local directory (i.e. ``.'')
  39. <LI>configure no longer tries to setup HTML materials
  40. <LI>include file directories needed in building the library are now
  41. specified with a <TT>DIRS_LIBINC</TT> config parameter
  42. <LI>configure no longer checks for alternate compilers if <TT>CC</TT>
  43. is set; if the specified compiler is not found or is not appropriate
  44. the configuration procedure aborts
  45. <LI>the <B>port.h</B> file generated by configure is now used only by
  46. the library and as such as have been moved to the <B>libtiff</B>
  47. directory
  48. <LI>there is beginning support for building DSO's on systems other than IRIX
  49. <LI>configure now verifies the JPEG and zlib directory pathnames by
  50. checking for well-known include files in these directories
  51. <LI>configure no longer creates the <B>dist</B> directory needed only
  52. on SGI machines (for building SGI binary distributions)
  53. <LI>a bug was fixed whereby configure would incorrectly set
  54. <TT>ENVOPTS</TT> when building the software with gcc under AIX
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  57. <A NAME="libtiff"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:</B></A>
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  59. <LI>two new typedefs were added to <B>tiff.h</TT>: <TT>int8</TT>
  60. and <TT>uint8</TT> for signed and unsigned 8-bit quantities,
  61. respectively; these are currently used only by
  62. programs in the <B>tools</B> directory
  63. <LI>the <TT>BadFaxLines</TT>, <TT>CleanFaxData</TT>, and
  64. <TT>ConsecutiveBadFaxLines</B> tags are now supported with
  65. Group 4 compression
  66. <LI>byte order is now correctly identified on 64-bit machines
  67. <LI>a bug was fixed in the PackBits decoder where input data would
  68. appear short when a no-op run was present
  69. <LI>a bug was fixed in calculations with very wide strips
  70. <LI><TT>TIFFWriteEncodedStrip</TT> and <TT>TIFFWriteRawStrip</TT>
  71. were extended to support dynamically growing the number of
  72. strips in an image (must set <TT>ImageLength</TT> prior to
  73. making calls though)
  74. <LI><TT>TIFFDefaultTileSize</TT> now rounds tile width and height
  75. up to a multiple of 16 pixels, as required by the TIFF 6.0 specification
  76. <LI>the file <B>version.h</B> is now built by a new <B>mkversion</B>
  77. program; this was done for portability to non-UNIX systems
  78. <LI>support was added for the Acorn RISC OS (from Peter Greenham)
  79. <LI>the builtin codec table is now made <TT>const</TT> when compiling
  80. under VMS so that <B>libtiff</B> can be built as a shared library
  81. <LI>support for the PowerPC Mac (from Ruedi Boesch)
  82. <LI>support for Window NT/Window 95 (from Scott Wagner)
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  85. <A NAME="tools"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE TOOLS:</B></A>
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  87. <LI>the tools no longer include <B>port.h</B>
  88. <LI>various portability fixes; mostly to eliminate implicit assumptions
  89. about how long <TT>int32</TT> data types are
  90. <LI>PostScript Level II additions to <TT>tiff2ps</TT> from Bjorn Brox
  91. <LI><TT>sgi2tiff</TT> now handles RGBA images
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  93. <P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right>
  94. <A NAME="man"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE MANUAL PAGES:</B></A>
  95. <UL>
  96. <LI>the documentation has been updated to reflect the current state of
  97. the software
  98. <LI>some routines have been moved to different manual pages
  99. to group like-routines together
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  101. <P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=right>
  102. <A NAME="contrib"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE CONTRIBUTED SOFTWARE:</B></A>
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  104. <LI>support was added for the Acorn RISC OS (from Peter Greenham)
  105. <LI>support for Windows NT/Windows 95 contributed for a previous
  106. version of this software was sort of incorporated (it's broken
  107. right now) (from Scott Wagner)
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