28 Jan 18:12
ImageMagick, version 6.3.8-2, Released
From: <duc.sequere.aut.de.via.decede <at> imagemagick.org>
Subject: ImageMagick, version 6.3.8-2, Released
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.video.image-magick.announce
Date: 2008-01-28 17:15:18 GMT
Subject: ImageMagick, version 6.3.8-2, Released
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.video.image-magick.announce
Date: 2008-01-28 17:15:18 GMT
ImageMagick Studio LLC announces the release of ImageMagick 6.3.8-2.
ImageMagick® is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images.
It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (over 100)
including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG,
and TIFF. Use ImageMagick to translate, flip, mirror, rotate, scale, shear and
transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw
text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Béer curves.
The functionality of ImageMagick is typically utilized from the command line
or you can use the features from programs written in your favorite programming
language. Choose from these interfaces: G2F (Ada), MagickCore (C), MagickWand
(C), ChMagick (Ch), ImageMagickObject (COM+), Magick++ (C++), JMagick (Java),
L-Magick (Lisp), NMagick (Neko/haXe), MagickNet (.NET), PascalMagick (Pascal),
PerlMagick (Perl), MagickWand for PHP (PHP), IMagick (PHP), PythonMagick
(Python), RMagick (Ruby), or TclMagick (Tcl/TK). With a language interface,
use ImageMagick to modify or create images dynamically and automagically.
ImageMagick is free software delivered as a ready-to-run binary distribution
or as source code that you may freely use, copy, modify, and distribute. Its
license is compatible with the GPL. It runs on all major operating systems.
Features and Capabilities
Here are just a few examples of what ImageMagick can do:
* Format conversion: convert an image from one format to another (e.g. PNG
to JPEG)
* Transform: resize, rotate, crop, flip or trim an image
* Transparency: render portions of an image invisible
* Draw: add shapes or text to an image
* Decorate: add a border or frame to an image
* Special effects: blur, sharpen, threshold, or tint an image
* Animation: create a GIF animation sequence from a group of images
* Text & comments: insert descriptive or artistic text in an image
* Image identification: describe the format and properties of an image
* Composite: overlap one image over another
* Montage: juxtapose image thumbnails on an image canvas
* Motion picture support: read and write the common image formats used in
digital film work
* Image calculator: apply a mathematical expression to an image or image
channels
* High dynamic-range images: accurately represent the wide range of
intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from the brightest direct
sunlight to the deepest darkest shadows
* Large image support: read, process, or write mega- and giga-pixel image
sizes
* Threads of execution support: ImageMagick is thread safe and many
internal algorithms are already threaded to take advantage of speed-ups
offered by the dual and quad-core processor technologies
Examples of ImageMagick Usage:
http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graphics/imagick6
shows how to use ImageMagick to accomplish any of these tasks and much more or
see the ImageMagick home page at
http://www.imagemagick.org
Significant changes since the last official ImageMagick release, include:
2008-01-24 6.3.8-2 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
* Add support for liquid rescaling (e.g. -liquid-rescale).
* Support a ^ meta character in an image geometry (.e.g
convert 640x480.png -resize 240^ returns a 320x240 result).
2008-01-20 6.3.8-1 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
* Fix transient bug where "identify -format '%w;%[exif:Model]'" failed to
return camera model number.
2008-01-14 6.3.8-0 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
* Monochome EPS3 images are no longer corrupt (reference
http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10422).
* Eliminate memory corruption with broken PICT image (reference
http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10447).
* Return a Grayscale colorspace for grayscale DPX image (previously
returned Log colorspace).
* Fix -g option for PCL6 support (reference
http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10462).
2008-01-08 6.3.7-10 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
* Only read ICON alpha mask if BPP is <= 16.
* Add support for +opaque and +transparent (requested by Anthony).
* Throw an exception *before* we call wmf_api_destroy() (reference
http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10420).
2008-01-01 6.3.7-9 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
* Use explicit format specifier to render transparent Adobe Illustrator
files (i.e. convert ai:image.ai image.png).
* Set RSVG base URI (patch provided by tsdineen).
2007-12-20 6.3.7-7 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
* `Magick-config --version` returns Q16 instead of
Q <at> MAGICKCORE_QUANTUM_DEPTH@.
* Permit commas in numbers in certain locales (e.g. german +100,000).
2007-12-13 6.3.7-5 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
* Added an exception reason to BlobToImage() in the event an image has no
magic number and neither the image magick or filename is set.
* Do not pass PhotoYCC data thru gamma-corrected lookup-table.
* Fix bug in GetEXIFProperty() (reference
https://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10300).
2007-12-12 6.3.7-4 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
* Adding comments to your image is now possible with the display program.
2007-12-09 6.3.7-3 Anthony <anthony <at> griffith...>
* Adjusted -clut multiplyer for correct handling of
"-interpolation Integer" in color lookup.
2007-12-01 6.3.7-3 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
* Fix 'insufficient image data' for DCM format (reference
https://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10227).
* Force a colormapped image if Palm bits-per-pixel < 16.
* Fix multiple problems with Palm Data Base reader (patch from
1tms <at> gmx.d...).
* Do not exit after first image with the display --immutable option.
* Update autoconf/automake/libtool configuration files.
* Add support for resource limit units (e.g. -limit memory 16mb).
* Return original image if gaussian blur sigma is 0.0.
* Colormapped multi-image PDF's are no longer corrupt (reference
https://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10258).
2007-11-27 6.3.7-2 Anthony <anthony <at> griffith...>
* Finalization of new resize filters, "Lagrange" self-windowing filter
now adjusts automatically with different support window size.
* Added "Bohman" (another 2'rd order cosine function) and "Bartlett"
(triangular) resize windowing filters.
* Adjusted -clut to use a grayscale image (with no alpha) to select colors
from the Lookup Table image.
2007-11-26 6.3.7-2 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
* Not all DCM tags were being saved as image attributes (patch provided by
jcupitt <at> gmail...).
* Normalize pixel values when quantum format is floating-point.
* Initialize the pixel sum to zero when averaging image pixels.
2007-11-23 6.3.7-1 Anthony <anthony <at> griffith...>
* Bug fix in height calculation for -layers merge operation
2007-11-02 6.3.7-0 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
* Add support for SCT grayscale images.
* Fixed transparency bug for the ICO image format.
* Fixed small memory leak in the caption and label coders.
* Fixed -threshold option to return all white for -threshold 0 (reference
http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10126).
2007-11-06 6.3.6-10 Chris Madison <madisonblu <at> hotma...>
* Corrected CGM delegate command in config/delegate.xml.
2007-11-05 6.3.6-9 Chris Madison <madisonblu <at> hotma...>
* Reclassified X server open error from fatal to non-fatal.
* New SetImageAlphaChannel() method to activate, deactivate, reset, or
set the image alpha channel.
* Patch for Scanalytics IPLab image format for non 8-bit images
(contributed by Sean Burke).
2007-11-04 6.3.6-8 Chris Madison <madisonblu <at> hotma...>
* Remove ctrl-M characters on in various source files.
* Fix signature for Magick++ averageImages() regression tests for HDRI.
* Only invoke PerlMagick x11 regression test if DISPLAY variable is set.
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