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- CHANGE LOG for Independent JPEG Group's JPEG software
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- Version 6 2-Aug-95
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-
- Progressive JPEG support: library can read and write full progressive JPEG
- files. A "buffered image" mode supports incremental decoding for on-the-fly
- display of progressive images. Simply recompiling an existing IJG-v5-based
- decoder with v6 should allow it to read progressive files, though of course
- without any special progressive display.
-
- New "jpegtran" application performs lossless transcoding between different
- JPEG formats; primarily, it can be used to convert baseline to progressive
- JPEG and vice versa. In support of jpegtran, the library now allows lossless
- reading and writing of JPEG files as DCT coefficient arrays. This ability
- may be of use in other applications.
-
- Notes for programmers:
- * We changed jpeg_start_decompress() to be able to suspend; this makes all
- decoding modes available to suspending-input applications. However,
- existing applications that use suspending input will need to be changed
- to check the return value from jpeg_start_decompress(). You don't need to
- do anything if you don't use a suspending data source.
- * We changed the interface to the virtual array routines: access_virt_array
- routines now take a count of the number of rows to access this time. The
- last parameter to request_virt_array routines is now interpreted as the
- maximum number of rows that may be accessed at once, but not necessarily
- the height of every access.
-
-
- Version 5b 15-Mar-95
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-
- Correct bugs with grayscale images having v_samp_factor > 1.
-
- jpeg_write_raw_data() now supports output suspension.
-
- Correct bugs in "configure" script for case of compiling in
- a directory other than the one containing the source files.
-
- Repair bug in jquant1.c: sometimes didn't use as many colors as it could.
-
- Borland C makefile and jconfig file work under either MS-DOS or OS/2.
-
- Miscellaneous improvements to documentation.
-
-
- Version 5a 7-Dec-94
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-
- Changed color conversion roundoff behavior so that grayscale values are
- represented exactly. (This causes test image files to change.)
-
- Make ordered dither use 16x16 instead of 4x4 pattern for a small quality
- improvement.
-
- New configure script based on latest GNU Autoconf.
- Fix configure script to handle CFLAGS correctly.
- Rename *.auto files to *.cfg, so that configure script still works if
- file names have been truncated for DOS.
-
- Fix bug in rdbmp.c: didn't allow for extra data between header and image.
-
- Modify rdppm.c/wrppm.c to handle 2-byte raw PPM/PGM formats for 12-bit data.
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- Fix several bugs in rdrle.c.
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- NEED_SHORT_EXTERNAL_NAMES option was broken.
-
- Revise jerror.h/jerror.c for more flexibility in message table.
-
- Repair oversight in jmemname.c NO_MKTEMP case: file could be there
- but unreadable.
-
-
- Version 5 24-Sep-94
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-
- Version 5 represents a nearly complete redesign and rewrite of the IJG
- software. Major user-visible changes include:
- * Automatic configuration simplifies installation for most Unix systems.
- * A range of speed vs. image quality tradeoffs are supported.
- This includes resizing of an image during decompression: scaling down
- by a factor of 1/2, 1/4, or 1/8 is handled very efficiently.
- * New programs rdjpgcom and wrjpgcom allow insertion and extraction
- of text comments in a JPEG file.
-
- The application programmer's interface to the library has changed completely.
- Notable improvements include:
- * We have eliminated the use of callback routines for handling the
- uncompressed image data. The application now sees the library as a
- set of routines that it calls to read or write image data on a
- scanline-by-scanline basis.
- * The application image data is represented in a conventional interleaved-
- pixel format, rather than as a separate array for each color channel.
- This can save a copying step in many programs.
- * The handling of compressed data has been cleaned up: the application can
- supply routines to source or sink the compressed data. It is possible to
- suspend processing on source/sink buffer overrun, although this is not
- supported in all operating modes.
- * All static state has been eliminated from the library, so that multiple
- instances of compression or decompression can be active concurrently.
- * JPEG abbreviated datastream formats are supported, ie, quantization and
- Huffman tables can be stored separately from the image data.
- * And not only that, but the documentation of the library has improved
- considerably!
-
-
- The last widely used release before the version 5 rewrite was version 4A of
- 18-Feb-93. Change logs before that point have been discarded, since they
- are not of much interest after the rewrite.
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