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| 4 | Changes in TIFF v3.7.0alpha
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| 12 | <BASEFONT SIZE=4>
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| 13 | <B><FONT SIZE=+3>T</FONT>IFF <FONT SIZE=+2>C</FONT>HANGE <FONT SIZE=+2>I</FONT>NFORMATION</B>
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| 15 |
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| 16 | <UL>
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| 17 | <HR SIZE=4 WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left>
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| 18 | <B>Current Version</B>: v3.7.0alpha<BR>
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| 19 | <B>Previous Version</B>: <A HREF=v3.6.1.html>v3.6.1</a><BR>
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| 20 | <B>Master FTP Site</B>: <A HREF="ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff">
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| 21 | ftp.remotesensing.org</a>, directory pub/libtiff</A><BR>
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| 22 | <B>Master HTTP Site</B>: <A HREF="http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff">
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| 23 | http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff</a>
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| 24 | <HR SIZE=4 WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left>
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| 25 | </UL>
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| 26 |
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| 27 | <P>
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| 28 | This document describes the changes made to the software between the
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| 29 | <I>previous</I> and <I>current</I> versions (see above).
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| 30 | If you don't find something listed here, then it was not done in this
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| 31 | timeframe, or it was not considered important enough to be mentioned.
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| 32 | The following information is located here:
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| 33 | <UL>
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| 34 | <LI><A HREF="#hightlights">Major Changes</A>
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| 35 | <LI><A HREF="#configure">Changes in the software configuration</A>
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| 36 | <LI><A HREF="#libtiff">Changes in libtiff</A>
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| 37 | <LI><A HREF="#tools">Changes in the tools</A>
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| 38 | <LI><A HREF="#contrib">Changes in the contrib area</A>
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| 39 | <LI><A HREF="#lzwkit">Changes in the LZW compression kit</A>
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| 40 | </UL>
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| 41 | <p>
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| 42 | <P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left>
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| 44 | <!--------------------------------------------------------------------------->
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| 45 |
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| 46 | <A NAME="highlights"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>M</FONT>AJOR CHANGES:</B></A>
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| 47 |
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| 48 | <ul>
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| 49 | <li> Significant changes in software configuration: we are switched
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| 50 | to GNU autotools now.
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| 51 |
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| 52 | <li> tiffset: tiffset now can set any libtiff supported tags. Tags
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| 53 | can be supplied by the mnemonic name or number.
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| 54 | </ul>
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| 55 |
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| 57 | <P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left>
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| 58 | <!--------------------------------------------------------------------------->
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| 59 |
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| 60 | <A NAME="configure"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:</B></A>
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| 61 |
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| 62 | <UL>
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| 63 | <li> Get rid of the old configuration system and switch to
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| 64 | GNU autotools.
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| 65 | </UL>
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| 66 |
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| 67 | <P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left>
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| 70 |
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| 71 | <A NAME="libtiff"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:</B></A>
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| 72 |
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| 73 | <UL>
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| 74 | <li> libtiff/tif_ojpeg.c: Fixed problem with duplicated SOI and SOF
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| 75 | markers as per bug
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| 76 | <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581"
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| 77 | http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581</a>.
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| 78 |
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| 79 | <li> libtiff/{tif_open.c, tiffio.h}: New function added:
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| 80 | TIFFIsBigEndian(). Function returns nonzero if given was file written
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| 81 | in big-endian order.
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| 82 |
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| 83 | <li> libtiff/tif_print.c: added (untested) support for printing
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| 84 | SSHORT, SLONG and SRATIONAL fields.
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| 85 |
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| 86 | <li> libtiff/tif_fax3.c: Avoid reading CCITT compression options
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| 87 | if compression type mismatches. See
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| 88 | <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565">
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| 89 | http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565</a>.
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| 90 |
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| 91 | <li> libtiff/tif_strip.c: Never return 0 from the TIFFNumberOfStrips().
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| 92 |
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| 93 | <li> libtiff/tif_dirread.c: Workaround for broken TIFF writers which
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| 94 | store single SampleFormat value for multisampled images. See
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| 95 | <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=562">
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| 96 | http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=562</a>.
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| 97 |
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| 98 | <li> libtiff/tif_write.c: Allow in-place updating of the compressed
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| 99 | images (don't work properly with all codecs). For details see GDAL bug
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| 100 | <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=534">
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| 101 | http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=534</a>.
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| 102 |
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| 103 | <li> libtiff/tif_jpeg.c: Workaround for wrong sampling factors used
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| 104 | in the Intergarph JPEG compressed TIFF images as per bug:
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| 105 | <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=532">
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| 106 | http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=532</a>.
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| 107 |
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| 108 | <li> libtiff/tif_open.c: Use dummy mmap/munmap functions in
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| 109 | TIFFClientOpen() when the appropriate client functions was not
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| 110 | supplied by user.
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| 111 |
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| 112 | <li> libtiff/tif_dirread.c: Fixed problem with handling TIFF_UNDEFINED
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| 113 | tag type in TIFFFetchNormalTag() as per bug
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| 114 | <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508"
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| 115 | http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508</a>.
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| 116 |
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| 117 | <li> libtiff/tif_codec.c: Fixed typo in TIFFInitPackBits name as per:
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| 118 | <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494">
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| 119 | http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494</a>.
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| 120 |
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| 121 | <li> libtiff/tif_fax3.c: Fixed problem, introdiced in 3.6.1 release,
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| 122 | with the CCITT encoding modes as per bug
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| 123 | <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=483">
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| 124 | http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=483</a>.
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| 125 | We need more work on fax codec to support update mode.
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| 126 |
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| 127 | <li> libtiff/tiff.h: Fixed tag definitions for TIFFTAG_YCLIPPATHUNITS
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| 128 | and TIFFTAG_INDEXED as per bug
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| 129 | <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475">
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| 130 | http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475</a>.
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| 131 |
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| 132 | <li> libtiff/{tif_win32.c, tif_unix.c}: Check whether the pointer is
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| 133 | NULL before proceeding further as per bug
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| 134 | <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474">
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| 135 | http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474</a>.
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| 136 | Check results, returned by the TIFFFdOpen() before returning and close
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| 137 | file if TIFFFdOpen() failed as per bug
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| 138 | <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468">
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| 139 | http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468</a>.
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| 140 |
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| 141 | <li> libtiff/{libtiff.def, tif_close.c, tiffio.h, tif_open.c}:
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| 142 | Separate TIFFCleanup() from the TIFFClose() in order to fix the bug
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| 143 | <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468">
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| 144 | http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468</a>.
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| 145 |
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| 146 | <li> libtiff/tif_dirwrite.c: Fixed handling of writable ASCII tags
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| 147 | that are field_passcount=TRUE properly. Arguably anonymous custom
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| 148 | tags should be declared as passcount=FALSE, but I don't want to change
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| 149 | that without a careful review.
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| 150 |
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| 151 | <li> libtiff/tif_write.c: Fixed reporting size of the buffer in case
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| 152 | of stripped image in TIFFWriteBufferSetup(). As per bug
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| 153 | <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460">
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| 154 | http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460</a>.
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| 155 |
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| 156 | <li> libtiff/tif_dir.c: Incomplete cleanup in TIFFFreeDirectory(),
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| 157 | patch from Gerben Koopmans.
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| 158 |
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| 159 | <li> libtiff/tif_dirread.c: Check field_passcount value before setting
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| 160 | the value of undefined type, patch from Gerben Koopmans.
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| 161 |
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| 162 | <li> libtiff/{tiff.h, tif_fax3.c}:Fixes for AMD 64 platform as
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| 163 | suggested by Jeremy C. Reed.
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| 164 |
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| 165 | <li> libtiff/tif_win32.c: Fixed problem with _TIFFrealloc() when
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| 166 | the NULL pointer passed. Patch supplied by Larry Grill.
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| 167 |
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| 168 | </UL>
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| 169 |
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| 172 | <!-------------------------------------------------------------------------->
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| 173 |
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| 174 | <A NAME="tools"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE TOOLS:</B></A>
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| 175 |
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| 176 | <UL>
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| 177 | <li> tiffset: tiffset now can set any libtiff supported tags. Tags
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| 178 | can be supplied by the mnemonic name or number.
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| 179 |
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| 180 | <li> ycbcr.c: fixed main() declaration as per:
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| 181 | <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513">
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| 182 | http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513</a>.
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| 183 |
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| 184 | <li> <a href=./man/tiffsplit.1.html>tiffsplit</a>: Don't forget
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| 185 | to copy Photometric Interpretation tag.
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| 186 |
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| 187 | <li> <a href=./man/tiffsplit.1.html>tiffsplit</a>: Fixed problem with
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| 188 | unproperly written multibyte files. Now output files will be written
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| 189 | using the same byte order flag as in the input image. See
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| 190 | <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574"
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| 191 | http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574</a>.
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| 193 | <li> <a href=./man/tiffsplit.1.html>tiffsplit</a>: Copy JPEGTables
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| 194 | tag contents for JPEG compressed images. Reported by Artem Mirolubov.
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| 196 | <li> <a href=./man/tiffcp.1.html>tiffcp</a>: Close output file
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| 197 | on normal exit.
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| 198 |
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| 199 | <li> <a href=./man/tiffcp.1.html>tiffcp</a>: Don't emit warnings
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| 200 | when Orientation tag does not present in the input image.
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| 201 |
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| 202 | <li> <a href=./man/tiffcp.1.html>tiffcp</a>: Properly set
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| 203 | Photometric Interpretation in case of JPEG compression of grayscale
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| 204 | images.
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| 205 |
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| 206 | <li> <a href=./man/tiffcp.1.html>tiffcp</a>: Fixed problem with wrong
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| 207 | interpretation of the InkNames tag as per bug
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| 208 | <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466">
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| 209 | http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466</a>.
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| 210 | Memory leak fixed.
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| 211 |
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| 212 | <li> <a href=./man/tiffcp.1.html>tiffcp</a>: Fixed problem with
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| 213 | wrong Photometric setting for non-RGB images.
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| 221 | <A NAME="contrib"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE CONTRIB AREA:</B></A>
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| 222 |
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| 223 | <UL>
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| 224 |
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| 225 | <li> Outdated stuff removed.
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| 226 |
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| 227 | <li> Almost all programs are sinchronized with the current libtiff
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| 228 | and should compile without problems.
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| 229 |
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| 234 | <A NAME="lzwkit"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE LZW COMPRESSION
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| 235 | KIT:</B></A>
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| 237 |
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| 238 | <li> No changes.
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| 239 |
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| 240 | </UL>
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| 246 | Last updated $Date: 2006/03/18 17:12:47 $.
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