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  4. Changes in TIFF v3.4beta028
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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>: v3.4beta028<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>a <TT>-noninteractive</TT> flag was added to configure to
  36. control whether or not it prints and prompts for configuration information
  37. <LI>various typos and fixes were made in configure for the the
  38. library-only build support (this and other configure fixes from
  39. Richard Mlynarik <A HREF=mailto:mly@adoc.xerox.com>&lt;mly@adoc.xerox.com&gt;</A>)
  40. <LI>bugs were fixed in the handling of pathnames supplied for external
  41. packages; e.g. <TT>DIR_JPEG</TT>
  42. <LI>the handling of <TT>SETMAKE</TT> is now done properly
  43. <LI>the default prototype function declaration for <TT>pow</TT> was corrected
  44. <LI>a bug was fixed in <B>libtiff/Makefile.in</B> that caused installation
  45. to fail on systems without DSO support
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  48. <A NAME="libtiff"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:</B></A>
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  50. <LI>Acorn RISC O/S support that was accidentally left out of the
  51. left out of the previous distribution is present (from Peter Greenham)
  52. <LI>complaints about unknown and/or unsupported codecs have been
  53. delayed until they are invoked; this permits applications to open
  54. images and look at tags even if the image data is compressed with
  55. an unknown/unsupported compression scheme
  56. <LI>bugs in handling unknown tags have been corrected; applications
  57. that use multiple codecs, each with codec-specific tags, no longer
  58. generate confusing error messages
  59. <LI>a missing pseudo-tag definition in the CCITT G3 codec was fixed
  60. (this problem caused core dumps in the <TT>tiffcp</TT> program)
  61. <LI>pseudo-tags are now treated specially; they are always considered
  62. to be set (i.e. they do not use bits in the <TT>FIELD_*</TT> bit-vectors).
  63. <LI>the use of strip chopping can now be controlled on a per-file basis
  64. through a mode parameter supplied when opening a file (``C'' to
  65. enable strip chopping and ``c'' to disable)
  66. <LI>two bugs were fixed in the writing of opposite-endian byte-order
  67. files
  68. <LI>support was added for three new fax-related tags registered to
  69. SGI: FaxRecvParams, FaxRecvTime, and FaxSubAddress
  70. <LI>the bit order of image data read and written can now be controlled
  71. on a per-file basis through a mode parameter supplied when opening
  72. a file (``B'' to force MSB2LSB bit order, ``L'' for LSB2MSB bit
  73. order, and ``H'' for the bit order of the native CPU)
  74. <LI>the byte order of image and tag data written to newly-created files
  75. can now be controlled on a per-file basis through a mode parameter
  76. supplied when openening a file (``b'' to force Big-Endian byte order
  77. and ``l'' to force Little-Endian byte order)
  78. <LI>the use memory-mapped files for images opened read-only can now
  79. be controlled on a per-file basis through a mode parameter supplied
  80. when opening a file (``M'' to enable use of memory-mapped files
  81. and ``m'' to disable use)
  82. <LI>the use of the <TT>WIN32</TT> define in <B>tiffiop.h</B> has
  83. been replaced by <TT>__WIN32__</TT>
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  86. <A NAME="tools"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE TOOLS:</B></A>
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  88. <LI><TT>fax2ps</TT> now does a <TT>save</TT> and <TT>restore</TT>
  89. around each page of PostScript; this fixes a problem with VM
  90. overflow when printing a many-page document on some printers
  91. <LI>a bug in the handling of 3-channel images by <TT>ras2tiff</TT>
  92. was fixed
  93. <LI><TT>tiffcp</TT> has new options to control the byte order of
  94. newly created files: <B>-B</B> for Big-Endian byte order, <B>-L</B>
  95. for Little-Endian byte order; a <B>-M</B> option to disable the
  96. use of memory-mapped files, and a <B>-C</B> option to disable the
  97. use of strip chopping
  98. <LI>bugs were fixed in <TT>tiffcp</TT>'s handling of codec-specific tags
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  101. <A NAME="man"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE MANUAL PAGES:</B></A>
  102. <UL>
  103. <LI>the <TT>TIFFOpen</TT> page has been updated to reflect the new
  104. optional open mode parameters
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  107. <A NAME="contrib"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE CONTRIBUTED SOFTWARE:</B></A>
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  109. <LI><B>contrib/win95</B> contains information and code from Philippe Tenenhaus
  110. <A HREF=mailto:100423.3705@compuserve.com>&lt;100423.3705@compuserve.com&gt;</A>
  111. about using the software under Windows 95
  112. <LI><B>contrib/winnt</B> contains information and code from Dave Dyer
  113. <A HREF=mailto:ddyer@triple-i.com>&lt;ddyer@triple-i.com&gt;</A>
  114. about using the software under Windows NT
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