ImageMagick - Image Processing and Display Package

Recent ImageMagick Changes
2002-03-26  Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
  * 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  <leonardr@lazerware.com>
  * Fixed bugs related to layered CMYK PSD images.

2002-03-13  Leonard Rosenthol  <leonardr@lazerware.com>
  * PSD coder now saves layer information (name, offset & opacity)
    in hidden attributes.

2002-03-13  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Enhanced MPC to read/write image sequences.

2002-03-13  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * A number of formats (e.g. JPEG, PS) did not handle DirectClass
    grayscale images properly.

2002-03-12  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * 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  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Added AcquireString() to allocate read-only strings.

2002-03-10  Bob Friesenhahn  <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
  * coders/null.c (WriteNULLImage): Support writing "null:" image type
    for use when profiling or testing ImageMagick.

2002-03-08 Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
  * Update to Autoconf 2.53 (new release)
  * Update to Automake 1.6 (new release)

2002-03-07  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * 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  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * 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  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Memory overrun when drawing large circles.

2002-03-04  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Removed bug introduced into Bob's Base64Encode() method.

2002-03-02  Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
  * Added Base64Decode() and Base64Encode() to utility.c and updated
    ReadInlineImage() in magick/constitute.c to use Base64Decode().

2002-03-01  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * GetTypeInfoByFamily() null pointer fault (reported by Bob Friesenhahn).
  * Added module version number (patch by Glenn Randers-Pehrson).

2002-03-01  Glenn Randers-Pehrson  <randeg@alum.rpi.edu>
  * image->matte was not being set when reading GRAY-ALPHA PNG files.

2002-02-26  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Potential infinite loop in SyncBlob() (reported by  Vladimir Faiden).

2002-02-26  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Gravity not respected when drawing text with the convert program.

2002-02-21  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * MPEG multi-part filenames require an embedded %d, not %lu.
  * WriteStream() did not write to fifo (thanks to William Radcliffe).

2002-02-20  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Annotation did not support SJIS properly (patch provided by
    Katsutoshi Shibuya).

2002-02-18  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Fixed memory overrun with -format option of the mogrify program.
  * Labels were not positioned correctly for VID format.

2002-02-16  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * 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  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * 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  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * SVG coders understands inline images.

2002-02-06  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
            Glenn Randers-Pehrson  <randeg@alum.rpi.edu>
  * Made -scene consistent across all utilities.  -snaps replaces previous
    functionality of -scene for import program.

2002-01-30  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Correctly draw arc when arc end/start are not integer
    (patch contributed by Giuliano Pochini).

2002-01-28  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
            Glenn Randers-Pehrson  <randeg@alum.rpi.edu>
  * 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  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * 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  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Fixed occasional small memory leak associated with exceptions.
  * Persistent cache is no longer updated (MPC coder).

2002-01-20  Glenn Randers-Pehrson  <randeg@alum.rpi.edu>
  * Fixed some bugs in the uncompressed PGM and PPM reader/writer (pnm.c).

2002-01-14  Bob Friesenhahn  <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
  * configure.ac: Removed test for libwmf/font.h.

2002-01-13  Leonard Rosenthol  <leonardr@lazerware.com>
  * More bug fixes and improvements in PSD writer.

2002-01-13  Bob Friesenhahn  <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
  * 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  <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
  * 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  <leonardr@lazerware.com>
  * PSD now supports writing layered images and IPTC data
  * Fixed some bugs in XCF

2002-01-11  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Added image list methods to the API.

2002-01-10  Bob Friesenhahn  <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
  * 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  <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
  * Makefile.am : $(DESTDIR) already contains trailing '/'.

2002-01-06  Bob Friesenhahn  <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
  * coders/wmf.c (wmf_magick_device_begin): Fix non-opaque fills.
    Now properly fills with texture image.

2002-01-05  Glenn Randers-Pehrson  <randeg@alum.rpi.edu>
  * 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  <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
  * Fix lcms header inclusion in transform.c.

2002-01-03  Bob Friesenhahn  <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
  * coders/wmf.c (magick_brush): Fixed bug with setting fill color.

2002-01-03  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Postscript Level II is now DCS compliant.

2001-12-28  Leonard Rosenthol  <leonardr@lazerware.com>
  * Even more features and options were added to conjure
  * Added CropBox support to PDF writer

2001-12-26  Leonard Rosenthol  <leonardr@lazerware.com>
  * 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  <leonardr@lazerware.com>
  * Made a huge number of improvements to conjure.  It now supports
    over 15 different commands for manipulating your images.

2001-12-24  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Started a new scripting language utility, conjure.

2001-12-20  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Display the search path in the event a utility cannot find a
    particular configuration file (thanks to billr@corbis.com)

2001-12-14  Leonard Rosenthol  <leonardr@lazerware.com>
  * Fixed some bugs in the new composite operators.

2001-12-14  Bob Friesenhahn  <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
  * Added native BLOB support to coders/wmf.c.

2001-12-13  Leonard Rosenthol  <leonardr@lazerware.com>
  * 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  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * 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  <leonardr@lazerware.com>
  * 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  <leonardr@lazerware.com>
  * 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  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * -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  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Stream buffer was not being freed in ReadStream().

2001-12-05  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Corrected bias when downsizing an image with ResizeImage().

2001-11-25  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * AcquireImagePixels() can accept (x,y) outside the image area
    (e.g. AcquireImagePixels(image,-3,-3,7,7,exception)).

2001-11-22  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Added limited SVG gradient support.

2001-11-21  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Added API method, PingBlob().

2001-11-14  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * 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  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * 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  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Added SVG pattern support.
  * Changed default background color to none.

2001-11-05  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Added -level to convert/mogrify (suggested by
    mericson@phillynews.kom).

2001-11-04  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * -shadow/-shade were not distiguished.

2001-11-03  Bob Friesenhahn  <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
  * PerlMagick/Makefile.PL.in: Install PerlMagick using
    ImageMagick's configure prefix.

2001-11-02  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Typecast offset to unsigned long in coders/pdf.c.

2001-11-01  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Convert's -flatten, -average, etc. failed with an assert error.

2001-10-30  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Added support for On-the-air bitmap.

2001-09-29  Glenn  <randeg@alum.rpi.edu>
  * 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  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * ImageMagick now has a registry for storing image blobs.

2001-10-26  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Added VMS patches (thanks to Jouk Jansen).

2001-10-25 Bob Friesenhahn  <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
  * Fixed parsing bug for decorate #FFFFFF.

2001-10-22 Bob Friesenhahn  <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
  * Added tests for mpeg2 library to configure.

2001-10-22  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Added a MPEG coder module.
  * Added ImageType member to the image_info structure (suggested
    by Glenn)

2001-10-21  Bob Friesenhahn  <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
  * Eliminated libMagick.so dependency on libxml by not listing -lxml
    when doing modules link.

2001-10-18  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * 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  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Convert now supports -channel {Cyan,Magenta,Yellow,Black}.

2001-10-14  Bob Friesenhahn  <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
  * coders/wmf.c updated for libwmf 0.2.  Plenty of bugs remain within.

2001-10-11  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * QueryFontMetrics() of PerlMagick now recognizes embedded
    special characters (e.g. %h).

2001-10-10  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Fixed seg-fault for PingImage() on a JP2 image file.

2001-10-07  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * CloneImage() now uses a referenced counted pixel cache.

2001-10-05  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * 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  <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
  * Find libxml headers under Debian Linux (bug ID 921).

2001-10-02  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Fixed assertion error on drawing stroked text.

2001-10-01  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Added blob test to the PerlMagick test suite.

2001-09-30  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * 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  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * 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  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Replaced TemporaryFilename() with UniqueImageFilename().
  * ImageMagick CORE API is now 64-bit clean.

2001-09-20  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Fixed svg.c to accept a viewbox with a negative offset.

2001-09-15  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * 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  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * 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  <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
  * 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  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Updated PerlMagick signatures to reflect new message digest
    algorithm.

2001-09-08  Cristy  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * 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  <cristy@mystic.es.dupont.com>
  * Added -background to convert program usage text.
  * DispatchImage() now properly handles grayscale images.

2001-09-01  Glenn  <randeg@alum.rpi.edu>
  * The compression quality setting is now recognized when creating
    MPEG images (contributed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    (LLNL)).
Image manipulation software that works like magic.