Recent ImageMagick Changes

2002-06-20  Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * Update to use Automake 1.6.2

2002-06-20  Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * Try harder when searching for Ghostscript fonts under Linux.

2002-06-19  Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * Identify PICT files via magic.mgk.

2002-06-18  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Added PerlMagick threading support (patch by Doug MacEachern).

2002-06-16  Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * CLIPBOARD and EMF modules compile under MinGW and Cygwin.

2002-06-14  Glenn Randers-Pehrson <[email protected]>
  * The wbmp writer would dump core if it received a DirectClass image
    that contained only black and white pixels, because no colormap exists.

2002-06-09  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Label color could not be set (bug report by Ron Savage).
  * Added CatchException() method to magick/error.c.

2002-06-06  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * ImageMagick, version 5.4.6-1 released.

2002-06-05  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Added -encoding option to command line utilities.

2002-06-02  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * ImageMagick, version 5.4.6 released.

2002-05-29  Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * ImageMagick may now be built (static build only) using the
    free MinGW development package from http://www.mingw.org.
    Leonard's "clipboard" coder is included in the build.

2002-05-28  Leonard Rosenthol  <[email protected]>
  * Added new "clipboard" coder for reading/writing the system's
    clipboard.  Currently this is only implemented on Windows.
    For example:  'convert logo: clipboard:', 'convert clipboard: foo.png'

2002-05-28  Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * Support autotrace via delegates.mgk.
    For example:  'convert autotrace:file.png file.mvg'

2002-05-25  Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * Added progress monitor support to DrawImage().

2002-05-25  Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * Added progress monitor support to wmf.c.

2002-05-11  Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * Added EscapeText() to utility.c to support escaping text.

2002-05-11  Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * Text escaping for -draw and DrawAnnotation was not working properly.
    Now it does.  Backslash should act as a escape for the the active
    quote character (', ", or }) as well as backslash.  The backslash
    should be discarded if it was used as an escape character.  In order
    to reliably pass a backslash, two successive backslashes are required
    (e.g. "\\").

2002-05-11  Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * Modified Base64Encode() of utility.c so that it returns the number of
    characters encoded. This avoids having to invoke strlen() on possibly
    megabytes of data.

2002-05-11  Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * Fixed compilation error with Sun Workshop compiler (wmf.c).

2002-05-11  Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * Implement polypolygon support in WMF renderer.  Requires libwmf
    0.2.4 with draw_polypolygon IPA callback.

2002-05-10  Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * Added --enable-ccmalloc configure option.

2002-05-09  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * DCM patch provided by Shane Blackett.

2002-05-07  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Lock mutex when destroying a SemaphoreInfo structure (patch provided
    by William Radcliffe).
  * Added mingw patches provided by Derry Bryson.

2002-05-05  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * ImageMagick, version 5.4.5-1 released.

2002-04-30  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Subimage specification did not work for TIFF (e.g.
    convert 'image.tiff[1]' image.png).

2002-04-30  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * ImageMagick, version 5.4.5 released.

2002-04-20  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Added magic string detection for the FPX format (patch provided by
    Marc).

2002-04-18  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Added ExceptionInfo parameter to C API method, QueryColorDatabase().

2002-04-17  Leonard Rosenthol  <[email protected]>
  * Fixed all known bugs with the IMDisplay utility for Windows.

2002-04-17  Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * configure.ac (libtool_build_static_libs): Added
    --enable-delegate-build option to suuport building ImageMagick
    using delegate libraries in subdirectories of the ImageMagick source
    directory.

2002-04-16  Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * WMF now supplies bitmaps as inline images rather than via a mpri
    reference.

2002-04-15  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Fixed DrawImage() to properly handle affine image transforms.
  * Added AffineTransformImage() to C API.
  * Added -transform option to convert/mogrify program.

2002-04-13  Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * magick/magick.c (MagickToMime): New method to return the MIME media
    type corresponding to a specified magick tag.

2002-04-12  Leonard Rosenthol  <[email protected]>
  * Fixed a bug in writing layer names in PSD files.

2002-04-10  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Fixed PingImage() memory leak (thanks to Timo Vogel).
  * Added encoding and unicode attributes to PerlMagick (patch provided
    by Youki Kadobayashi).

2002-04-08  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Added reference counted blobs.
  * Added MagickFatalError() and SetFatalErrorHandler() to the C API.
  * One color images caused memory corruption in QuantizeImage() (thanks
    to Vincent Broz).
  * Memory leak in NormalizeImage() (thanks to Vincent Broz).

2002-04-06  Glenn Randers-Pehrson <[email protected]>
  *  Added CCIS-601 4:2:2 YUV format read-write support.
  *  Added CCIS-601 4:2:2 MPEG-2 format write support.
  *  Fixed a bug introduced in 5.4.0 that caused files with "M2V"
     suffix to be written in MPEG-1 instead of MPEG-2 format.

2002-03-28  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * ImageToBlob() only returned the first frame of a multi-frame image.

2002-04-05  Leonard Rosenthol  <[email protected]>
  * Fixed inversion of colors when converting CMYk JPEG to PDF

2002-04-01  Bob Friesenhahn <[email protected]>
  * Fixed TTF preview function.

2002-03-28  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * DCM patches provided by Syam Gadde.
  * Multi-frame MPC image files caused a fault under Windows.
  * Copy entire comment from SVG (bug report from Bob Friesenhahn).
  * Enlarged scanline buffer for JPEG-compressed TIFF's (bug report from
    Bob Friesenhahn).

2002-03-27  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * ImageMagick, version 5.4.4, released.

2002-03-26  Bob Friesenhahn <[email protected]>
  * Added preliminary version of C API for vector drawing commands
    (draw.h & draw.c).  This interface is subject to change, and has not
    even been tested yet so it should not be used to support production
    code.  The previous draw.h and draw.c have been renamed to render.h
    and render.c respectively.

2002-03-25  Leonard Rosenthol  <[email protected]>
  * Fixed bugs related to layered CMYK PSD images.

2002-03-13  Leonard Rosenthol  <[email protected]>
  * PSD coder now saves layer information (name, offset & opacity)
    in hidden attributes.

2002-03-13  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Enhanced MPC to read/write image sequences.

2002-03-13  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * A number of formats (e.g. JPEG, PS) did not handle DirectClass
    grayscale images properly.

2002-03-12  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Changed Clone*Info() API so structure members are set directly rather
    than by the *clone=*info method (suggested by William Radcliffe).

2002-03-11  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Added AcquireString() to allocate read-only strings.

2002-03-10  Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * coders/null.c (WriteNULLImage): Support writing "null:" image type
    for use when profiling or testing ImageMagick.

2002-03-08 Bob Friesenhahn <[email protected]>
  * Update to Autoconf 2.53 (new release)
  * Update to Automake 1.6 (new release)

2002-03-07  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Bob Friesenhahn's execution profile results in a number of speed-ups
    with a faster LocaleCompare() algorithm and self-adjusting lists.
  * Recognize additional DCM metadata (suggested by Barry Branham).
  * Fixed CopyOpacity composite operator for CMYKA images.

2002-03-06  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Inlined AlphaComposite() and ValidateColormapIndex().
  * Corrected compositing algorithm for the case where both source and
    destination pixels had opacity values that were neither fully transparent
    nor fully opaque.

2002-03-05  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Memory overrun when drawing large circles.

2002-03-04  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Removed bug introduced into Bob's Base64Encode() method.

2002-03-02  Bob Friesenhahn <[email protected]>
  * Added Base64Decode() and Base64Encode() to utility.c and updated
    ReadInlineImage() in magick/constitute.c to use Base64Decode().

2002-03-01  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * GetTypeInfoByFamily() null pointer fault (reported by Bob Friesenhahn).
  * Added module version number (patch by Glenn Randers-Pehrson).

2002-03-01  Glenn Randers-Pehrson  <[email protected]>
  * image->matte was not being set when reading GRAY-ALPHA PNG files.

2002-02-26  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Potential infinite loop in SyncBlob() (reported by  Vladimir Faiden).

2002-02-26  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Gravity not respected when drawing text with the convert program.

2002-02-21  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * MPEG multi-part filenames require an embedded %d, not %lu.
  * WriteStream() did not write to fifo (thanks to William Radcliffe).

2002-02-20  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Annotation did not support SJIS properly (patch provided by
    Katsutoshi Shibuya).

2002-02-18  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Fixed memory overrun with -format option of the mogrify program.
  * Labels were not positioned correctly for VID format.

2002-02-16  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Replaced -copy/-replace options with +/-write in the convert program.
  * Median filtering speed enhancement using skip list contributed by
    Mike Edmonds.

2002-02-14  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Command line options now stay in effect for any image in command
    line order until a another option is encountered or if -noop is specified.

2002-02-07  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * SVG coders understands inline images.

2002-02-06  Cristy  <[email protected]>
            Glenn Randers-Pehrson  <[email protected]>
  * Made -scene consistent across all utilities.  -snaps replaces previous
    functionality of -scene for import program.

2002-01-30  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Correctly draw arc when arc end/start are not integer
    (patch contributed by Giuliano Pochini).

2002-01-28  Cristy  <[email protected]>
            Glenn Randers-Pehrson  <[email protected]>
  * Geometry strings respect -gravity (e.g. -gravity SouthWest -crop
    100x100).
  * Postive offsets in geometry strings move within the image canvas
    with respect to the gravity (SouthWest gravity is similar to Postscript
    page offsets).

2002-01-24  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Use -trim to trim the edges of an image.
  * Palm pixmap supported contributed by Christopher R. Hawks.
  * Added -mask to the convert/mogrify programs to add clips masks to
    an image.

2002-01-21  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Fixed occasional small memory leak associated with exceptions.
  * Persistent cache is no longer updated (MPC coder).

2002-01-20  Glenn Randers-Pehrson  <[email protected]>
  * Fixed some bugs in the uncompressed PGM and PPM reader/writer (pnm.c).

2002-01-14  Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * configure.ac: Removed test for libwmf/font.h.

2002-01-13  Leonard Rosenthol  <[email protected]>
  * More bug fixes and improvements in PSD writer.

2002-01-13  Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * magick/magic.mgk: Added entries for detecting PFA and PFB formats.
    Is this file used for anything anymore?
  * coders/modules.mgk: Add support for PFA fonts.
  * coders/ttf.c (RegisterTTFImage): Add support for PFA fonts.
  * magick/annotate.c (RenderType): Add support for PFA fonts.

2002-01-12  Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * Modified type.mgk so that it may include the additional files
    type-windows.mgk, type-solaris.mgk, and type-ghostscript.mgk depending
    on the operating system used, and the font files available.

2002-01-11  Leonard Rosenthol  <[email protected]>
  * PSD now supports writing layered images and IPTC data
  * Fixed some bugs in XCF

2002-01-11  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Added image list methods to the API.

2002-01-10  Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * configure.ac : Renamed configure option --with-ttf-fontpath to
    --with-fontpath since ImageMagick loads more than TrueType fonts.
  * ChangeLog : Renamed Changelog.txt to ChangeLog in order to conform
    to GNU and open-source standards.

2002-01-06  Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * Makefile.am : $(DESTDIR) already contains trailing '/'.

2002-01-06  Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * coders/wmf.c (wmf_magick_device_begin): Fix non-opaque fills.
    Now properly fills with texture image.

2002-01-05  Glenn Randers-Pehrson  <[email protected]>
  * Fixed an out-of-bounds memset() and two other memory overruns when
    decoding 1-bit AVI, BMP, and DIB images.

2002-01-04 Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * Fix lcms header inclusion in transform.c.

2002-01-03  Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * coders/wmf.c (magick_brush): Fixed bug with setting fill color.

2002-01-03  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Postscript Level II is now DCS compliant.

2001-12-28  Leonard Rosenthol  <[email protected]>
  * Even more features and options were added to conjure
  * Added CropBox support to PDF writer

2001-12-26  Leonard Rosenthol  <[email protected]>
  * Conjure now supports having a list of files for the script to
    process being passed on the command line.
  * More features and options were added to conjure

2001-12-25  Leonard Rosenthol  <[email protected]>
  * Made a huge number of improvements to conjure.  It now supports
    over 15 different commands for manipulating your images.

2001-12-24  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Started a new scripting language utility, conjure.

2001-12-20  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Display the search path in the event a utility cannot find a
    particular configuration file (thanks to [email protected])

2001-12-14  Leonard Rosenthol  <[email protected]>
  * Fixed some bugs in the new composite operators.

2001-12-14  Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * Added native BLOB support to coders/wmf.c.

2001-12-13  Leonard Rosenthol  <[email protected]>
  * Added new composite operators to support PSD/XCF
    layer compositing:  NoCompositeOp, DarkenCompositeOp,
    LightenCompositeOp, HueCompositeOp, SaturateCompositeOp,
    ValueCompositeOp, ColorizeCompositeOp, LuminizeCompositeOp,
    ScreenCompositeOp, OverlayCompositeOp.
  * Modified the PSD coder to set the appropriate composite
    operator.
  * Modified the XCF coder to set the appropriate composite
    operator.

2001-12-10  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Removed the flatten option from ImageInfo.
  * Added new compose member to ImageInfo that defines which of
    the composite operators to use when flattening an image.

2001-12-09  Leonard Rosenthol  <[email protected]>
  * Added new member to ImageInfo, flatten, used by PSD and XCF
    to determine whether to flatten an image when read.
  * PSD and XCF now respect image_info->flatten.
  * Fixed bug in XCF loader when loading layered image as layers.
  * Modified the convert program to set image_info->flatten if
    -flatten is specified; we still call FlattenImages for other
    formats that don't respect image_info->flatten.
  * Modified Magick++'s Image class to support image_info->flatten.

2001-12-08  Leonard Rosenthol  <[email protected]>
  * Improvements to the Photoshop (PSD) coder:  1) added support
    for Duotone images loaded as grayscale as per PSD docs;  and 2)
    added option to composite layers when reading respects layer
    visibility setting.

2001-12-07  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * -dissolve wasn't working for the composite program (thanks to
    Rick Manbry).
  * DCM coder failed to read a valid DCM image file.

2001-12-06  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Stream buffer was not being freed in ReadStream().

2001-12-05  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Corrected bias when downsizing an image with ResizeImage().

2001-11-25  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * AcquireImagePixels() can accept (x,y) outside the image area
    (e.g. AcquireImagePixels(image,-3,-3,7,7,exception)).

2001-11-22  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Added limited SVG gradient support.

2001-11-21  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Added API method, PingBlob().

2001-11-14  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Moved a few pixel related defines (e.g. Downscale()) to
    a corresponding method to enforce strong type checking at
    compile time.

2001-11-12  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Previously ImageMagick did not write 8-bit ASCII PPM/PGM files
    when QuantumDepth == 16.
  * Added 'id' as an image attribute in PerlMagick (returns
    ImageMagick registry ID).

2001-11-10  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Added SVG pattern support.
  * Changed default background color to none.

2001-11-05  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Added -level to convert/mogrify (suggested by
    [email protected]).

2001-11-04  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * -shadow/-shade were not distiguished.

2001-11-03  Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * PerlMagick/Makefile.PL.in: Install PerlMagick using
    ImageMagick's configure prefix.

2001-11-02  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Typecast offset to unsigned long in coders/pdf.c.

2001-11-01  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Convert's -flatten, -average, etc. failed with an assert error.

2001-10-30  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Added support for On-the-air bitmap.

2001-09-29  Glenn  <[email protected]>
  * When the delay setting for an image is greater than 4cs, duplicate
    frames are inserted to achieve the desired delay while creating MPEG
    files (contributed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)).

2001-10-29  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * ImageMagick now has a registry for storing image blobs.

2001-10-26  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Added VMS patches (thanks to Jouk Jansen).

2001-10-25 Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * Fixed parsing bug for decorate #FFFFFF.

2001-10-22 Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * Added tests for mpeg2 library to configure.

2001-10-22  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Added a MPEG coder module.
  * Added ImageType member to the image_info structure (suggested
    by Glenn)

2001-10-21  Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * Eliminated libMagick.so dependency on libxml by not listing -lxml
    when doing modules link.

2001-10-18  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Eliminated the libMagick.so dependancy on libtiff by moving
    Huffman2DEncodeImage() from magick/compress.c to coders/pdf.c,
    coders/ps2.c and coders/ps3.c (suggested by Bob Friesenhahn).
    This change has the side-effect of elminating dependency on libpng
    and libjpeg as well (which libtiff may depend on).

2001-10-16  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Convert now supports -channel {Cyan,Magenta,Yellow,Black}.

2001-10-14  Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * coders/wmf.c updated for libwmf 0.2.  Plenty of bugs remain within.

2001-10-11  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * QueryFontMetrics() of PerlMagick now recognizes embedded
    special characters (e.g. %h).

2001-10-10  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Fixed seg-fault for PingImage() on a JP2 image file.

2001-10-07  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * CloneImage() now uses a referenced counted pixel cache.

2001-10-05  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Added AcquireImagePixels() method.
  * Changed the formal parameter from Image * to const Image *
    for a number of methods (e.g. ZoomImage()).
  * Added ExceptionInfo parameter to DispatchImage().

2001-10-05  Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * Find libxml headers under Debian Linux (bug ID 921).

2001-10-02  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Fixed assertion error on drawing stroked text.

2001-10-01  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Added blob test to the PerlMagick test suite.

2001-09-30  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * switched strcpy to strncpy to help protect against buffer
    overflow.
  * ltdl.c passed int reference but a long was needed; caused a
    fault on Solaris 64-bit compiles.

2001-09-25  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Removed most lint complaints from the source.
  * strtod() returns different results on Linux and Solaris for 0x13.
  * Added a MATLAB encoder contributed by Jaroslav Fojtik.

2001-09-21  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Replaced TemporaryFilename() with UniqueImageFilename().
  * ImageMagick CORE API is now 64-bit clean.

2001-09-20  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Fixed svg.c to accept a viewbox with a negative offset.

2001-09-15  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Surveying the code for 64-bit compatibility.
  * The cloned colormap was too small (reported by Glenn).
  * A blob was being unmapped more than once for multi-frame images.

2001-09-12  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Text drawing now handles UTF8-encoding.
  * Off-by-one GetImagePixels() fix in draw.c
  * PingImage() now reports attributes for all images in an image
    sequence.

2001-09-10  Bob Friesenhahn  <[email protected]>
  * magick/image.h: Rename QuantumLeap define to QuantumDepth.
    QuantumDepth is set to the values 8 or 16, depending on user
    configuration option.

2001-09-09  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Updated PerlMagick signatures to reflect new message digest
    algorithm.

2001-09-08  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * ImageMagick defaults to 16-bit quantum.  Set QuantumMagick
    for 8-bit.
  * Changed image->blob from BlobInfo to BlobInfo* so the Image
    structure size is not dependent on the large-file preprocessor
    defines.

2001-09-07  Cristy  <[email protected]>
  * Added -background to convert program usage text.
  * DispatchImage() now properly handles grayscale images.

2001-09-01  Glenn  <[email protected]>
  * The compression quality setting is now recognized when creating
    MPEG images (contributed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    (LLNL)).

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