ImageMagick Studio LLC announces the release of ImageMagick 6.5.0-5

headers duc.sequere.aut.de.via.decede | 23 Mar 2009 02:25

ImageMagick Studio LLC announces the release of ImageMagick 6.5.0-5.
This release focuses on bug fixes.  To download ImageMagick, go to
http://www.imagemagick.org.

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 Bézier 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
    * Virtual pixel support: convenient access to pixels outside the image
      region
    * Large image support: read, process, or write mega- and giga-pixel image
      sizes
    * Encipher or decipher an image: convert ordinary images into
      unintelligible gibberish and back again
    * Threads of execution support: ImageMagick is thread safe and most
      internal algorithms are OpenMP-enabled to take advantage of speed-ups
      offered by the dual and quad-core processor technologies

Examples of ImageMagick Usage, http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/,
shows how to use ImageMagick from the command-line to accomplish any
of these tasks and much more. Also, see Fred's ImageMagick Scripts,
http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/, a plethora of command-line scripts
that perform geometric transforms, blurs, sharpens, edging, noise removal,
and color manipulations.

Recent Changes

  Significant changes since the last official ImageMagick release, include:

2009-03-21  6.5.0-5 Chris Madison  <madisonblu <at> gmail...>
  * Change -selective-blur to use gaussian kernel.

2009-03-21  6.5.0-4 ERB  <entropy <at> xebec...>
  * Missing locks in blob - race condition (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13385).

2009-03-19  6.5.0-3 Chris Madison  <madisonblu <at> gmail...>
  * Use default SVG resolution unless resolution is explicitly set (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13373).
  * Add support for -selective-blur option.

2009-03-19  6.5.0-3 ragesteel  <iimagemagic-org-iapied0o <at> gt2.r...>
  * ImageToBlob() no longer faults if Jasper compression is wrong (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13372).

2009-03-19  6.5.0-3 ERB  <entropy <at> xebec...>
  * Check the 8BIM profile resource block length (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13368).
  * Unlocked read in DeleteNodeByValueFromSplayTree (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13370).

2009-03-18  6.5.0-2 ERB  <entropy <at> xebec...>
  * Eliminate race condition when acquiring a wand (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13357).
  * Use of "localtime" in FormatMagickTime not thread-safe (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13358).

2009-03-18  6.5.0-2 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
  * Fix the image compose operator at OverCompositeOP for shadows (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=13330).

2009-03-14  6.5.0-1 Paul Smedley  <paul <at> smedl...>
  * Patches to get ImageMagick working under OS2.

2009-03-10  6.5.0-1 Anthony Thyssen <A.Thyssen <at> griffith...>
  * Expansion of Virtual-Pixel (Cache) handling, to include corrected Mirror,
    plus addition of  CheckerTile, HorizontalTileEdge and VerticalTileEdge

2009-03-10  6.5.0-0 John Cupitt  <jcupitt <at> gmail...>,
                    Glenn Randers-Pehrson <glennrp <at> image...>
  * DICOM reader not handling signed pixels properly.

2009-03-09  6.4.9-10 Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov <at> gmail...> 
  * Don't call GetValueFromSplayTree() if image properties is NULL.

2009-03-09  6.4.9-10 Anthony Thyssen <A.Thyssen <at> griffith...>
  * Fix minor size issue with bestfit +distort operation.
  * Enable listing of -distort Polynomial
  * Minor tweeks and center fixes for Polar/Depolar

2009-03-01  6.4.9-9 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
  * Convert returns MagickFalse for the -version option (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13230).
  * Don't set pixel opacity unless the image alpha channel is active (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13189).

2009-02-27  6.4.9-8 Anthony Thyssen <A.Thyssen <at> griffith...>
  * Fix old -clut bug for re-coloring gray images using transparent and
    semi-transparent colors.

2009-02-22  6.4.9-7 Rick Mabry  <rick.mabry <at> anony...>
  * Changes have been made to scores of the files that generate the
    documentation. The most noticeable cosmetic changes are to the command-line
    examples and command-line snippets, which now have a new look: dark blue
    boxes with white/yellow text to indicate sample input/output.  Inclusion of
    current version and release dates in appropriate places are now
    automatically generated. Also, many changes have been made to begin to
    bring the pages into strict W3C compliance with respect to both HTML and
    CSS.

2009-02-21  6.4.9-7 Chris Madison  <madisonblu <at> gmail...>
  * The identify program reads the image pixels when the -format option is
    asking for image statistics.
  * Much improved ImageMagick validation suite (exercise with 'make check').

2009-02-18  6.4.9-5 Jon  <jon <at> brick...>
  * Processing the arg list -tile is replaced by -sans0 which is 1 char longer
    and which overwrites the allocated area.

2009-02-16  6.4.9-5 Chris Madison  <madisonblu <at> gmail...>
  * Add section to license to alert users to third-party licenses in the
    NOTICE file.

2009-02-11  6.4.9-3 Anthony  <A.Thyssen <at> griffith...>
  * Replaced geometry string parsing using ParseGravityGeometry() in
    "composite" with more direct use of GravityAdjustGeometry();

2009-02-10  6.4.9-3 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
  * Support file descriptors (e.g. convert image.jpg fd:3 ...).
  * The stream utility no longer go into an infinite loop (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=13102).

2009-02-04  6.4.9-2 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
  * JPEG to PDF was not always reversible (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13020).

2009-01-30  6.4.9-0 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
  * Stroking when annotating failed for stroks widths > 2 (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13009).

2009-01-24  6.4.8-10 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
  * SetImageColorspace() returns GRAYColorspace when set (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=12990).
  * Don;t assume CMYK unless document process colors include Cyan, Magenta,
    or Yellow.

2009-01-23  6.4.8-9 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
  * Increase random angle range for +polaroid from -7..7 to -15..15 degrees.

2009-01-22  6.4.8-8 Anthony  <A.Thyssen <at> griffith...>
  * Fixed a -evaluate AddModulus 'patch' for correct 'negative' handling

2009-01-20  6.4.8-7 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
  * Removed previous patches for -shear directions.

2009-01-20  6.4.8-8 Thomas Stegemann  <Thomas.Stegemann <at> mater...>
  * SVG with resolutions other than 72.0 dpi, text is no longer transformed
    twice.

2009-01-20  6.4.8-8 Anthony  <A.Thyssen <at> griffith...>
  * Renamed -evaluate methods 'sin' and 'cos' to math C math library names
  * Added  "-function polynomial  a,b,c,...."   Eg:  a*x^2 + b*x + c
  * Added  "-function sinusoid freq,phase,amplitude,bias  (all optional)

2009-01-18  6.4.8-7 Anthony  <A.Thyssen <at> griffith...>
  * Removed "annotate" patches, which causes no end of problems.
    Original coding worked perfectly fine.  Annotate isn't part of SVG!

2009-01-18  6.4.8-7 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
  * Respect mouse wheel movements for display program (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12938).
  * Grab button in Display Open menu now works consistently (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=12942).
  * Patch for problem with opacity in MVG (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=12946).

2009-01-14  6.4.8-6 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
  * Don't accept discontinuous shear angles for the -annotate option.
    -- REMOVED

2009-01-14  6.4.8-6 Mark Freeman <mark.freeman <at> porci...>
  * Apply patch so ImageMagick compiles with Visual Studio 6.

2009-01-12  6.4.8-5 Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov <at> gmail...> 
  * Fix small memory leak on truncated PNG images.
  * Do not allocate pixels when pinging a PNG image.

2009-01-11  6.4.8-6 Chris Madison  <madisonblu <at> gmail...>
  * Set the stroke opacity for "opacity" SVG element (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10594).

2009-01-10  6.4.8-5 Matthew Litwin <mlitwin <at> sonic...>
  * Convert to windows .ico format no longer inverts alpha channel.

2009-01-10  6.4.8-5 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
  * Interpret geometry correctly for negative angles (-shear 30x-10).

2009-01-08  6.4.8-4 Eberhard Mattes  <eberhard.mattes <at> web.d...>
  * Fix GetMagickToken() to accept locales that use "," as radix character.

2009-01-08  6.4.8-4 Anthony  <A.Thyssen <at> griffith...>
  * Add (and Fix) -evaluate methods   Sine, Cosine, AddModulus

2009-01-05  6.4.8-4 Rick Mabry  <rick.mabry <at> anony...>
  * Check for negative offsets (bevel widths) for the -frame option.

2009-01-04  6.4.8-4 Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov <at> gmail...> 
  * Patch for a memory leak and a logical bug in coders/gif.c.
  * CopyMagickString() now returns the minimum of the source string length
    or the length parameter.
  * Properly set alpha channel in PNGs with palette and tRNS.

2009-01-01  6.4.8-4 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
  * Support %[] embedded filename tag (e.g. convert rose: -set area "%wx%h"
	  'rose-%[area].png').
  * Do not set the fill element when 'opacity' is set (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10594).
  * Restore support for decoding the DVI format.
  * Add perl and math lib reference to PerlMagick Makefile (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=12840).
  * Fix crash on invalid JPEG XML profile.
  * Export libtool symbols in MagickCore.sym and MagickWand.sym.
  * Support sine and cosine as arguments to the -evaluate option.

2008-12-31  6.4.8-4 Amartyo Banerjee" <amartyo <at> gmail...>
  * Calculate the kurtosis and skewness of image channels (reference
    http://amartyosscrapbook.blogspot.com/2008/12/formulas-used-to-calculate-kurtosis-and.html).

2008-12-28  6.4.8-4 Rick Mabry  <rick.mabry <at> anony...>
  * Patch magick/display.c and PerlMagick/ContrastStretchImage() to return the
    same results as the -contrast-stretch option.
  * ContrastStretchImageChannel() no longer interpretted as Contast() by
    MogrifyRegion() in PerlMagick.

2008-12-28  6.4.8-3 Rick Mabry  <rick.mabry <at> anony...>
  * Reverse argument and option in Throw*InvalidArgumentException()
    macro for proper exception message.
  * Recognize negative geometries for -shear and -annotate (.e.g. 45x-30).
  * Fix Y shear angle for -shear option.

2008-12-26  6.4.8-2 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
  * Use GetImageArtifact() to retrieve -attentuate option value for +noise.
  * Support reading FITS test files (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=12799).
  * Replace input.ttf with the public domain Tuffy.ttf font.
  * MagickNewImage() no longer faults when parameters are incorrect (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=12817).
  * Allocate strings returned by XGetResourceInstance() (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=12818).
  * The -append gravity is relative to the container (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12821).

2008-12-19  6.4.8-1 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
  * Reference cache rather than acquiring when cloning an image.

2008-12-19  6.4.8-0 Cashish Kulkarni <ashkulz <at> redif...>
  * Cross-compilation failure using MinGW on Linux for ImageMagick trunk

2008-12-19  6.4.8-0 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
  * Add -interword-spacing option to convert.
  * Initialize the black channel when testing the CMY colorspace (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=12685).
  * remove calls to exit() in MagickWand (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12772).
  * Validate -affine arguments.
  * Accept -attentuate as an option for convert.
  * Properly create RGBA image if colormapped image has transparency.
  * Support X11 geometry like this: +-4+-4;  wierd but X11 supports it.

2008-12-17  6.4.7-10 Chris Madison  <madisonblu <at> gmail...>
  * Fix off-by-one problem with -shear.
  * Clone pixel cache method when cloning an image.

2008-12-16  6.4.7-9 Anthony  <A.Thyssen <at> griffith...>
  * Make "-layers Coalesce" work as it should.

2008-12-16  6.4.7-9 Sam Fisher <fisher <at> image...?
  * Support > 2GB TIFF under Windows.

2008-12-12  6.4.7-8 mootools <help <at> mooto...>
  * FormatMagickTime() checks to ensure the provided time is valid.

2008-12-12  6.4.7-8 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
  * Add -kerning option to convert.
  * Remove halo effect for the -scale option.

2008-12-11  6.4.7-7 Alan Wright  <alanwright.atex <at> google...>
  * Fix a 1 byte overrun in Postscript coder.

2008-12-10  6.4.7-6 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
  * Fix small memory leak in ExpandFilenames().

2008-12-09  6.4.7-5 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
  * Fix small memory leak in LoadLocaleList().
  * Fix small memory leak in GetProfilesFromResourceBlock().
  * Don't forget to scale grayscale values when quanum min-is-white is set.

2008-12-08  6.4.7-4 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
  * Include delegate libraries in MagickCore-config script.

2008-12-07  6.4.7-3 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
  * Fix off-by-one error for -chop 0x50%.
  * Performance improvement bilinear interpolation.

2008-12-06  6.4.7-2 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
  * Support absolute paths in the include directive within a configuration
    file.

2008-12-05  6.4.7-1 Chris Madison  <madisonblu <at> gmail...>
  * Assume Log colorspace if DPX transfer is LogarithmicColorimetric.
  * Another attempt at properly extracting the IPTC profile from a 8BIM
    resource block.

2008-12-04  6.4.7-1 Anthony  <A.Thyssen <at> griffith...>
  * AppendImage() re-written to respect gravity properly!
    Routine simplified to a single loop for both styles of append

2008-12-03  6.4.6-9 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
  * AppendImage() respects gravity.
  * Protect against circular image list when cropping.
  * The index variable must be long rather than unsigned long for the DCM
	  coder.

2008-12-02  6.4.6-9 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
  * Use ScaleQuantumToMap() to prevent fault in SetGrayscaleImage() when
    quantum depth is 32.

2008-12-01  6.4.6-8 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
  * Global replaced accidently renamed MagickGetImagePixelColor().

2008-11-29  6.4.6-6 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
  * Fixed transient bug in the -white-threshold option.
  * -extent x256+100+100 no longer returns an exception (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=12583).

2008-11-27  6.4.6-5 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
  * TIFF pad is relative to bits-per-sample (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12563).

2008-11-27  6.4.6-5 Koshiji Masayuki  <kosiji.masayuki <at> da.mi...>
  * Support GBR raw image files.

2008-11-26  6.4.6-4 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
  * DPX 10 bit YUV 4:2:2 are now processed properly (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12443).
  * Default PDF compression to that of the image unless overwritten by
    the -compress option.

2008-11-25  6.4.6-3 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
  * Numerous pixel cache improvements including embeded support for
    OpenMP in a transparent manner.

2008-11-20  6.4.6-2 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
  * Transient bug in encipher / decipher operation (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=12540).

2008-11-14  6.4.6-1 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
  * MPC image files working again.
  * coders/wmf.c/lite_font_stringwidth() returns string width (reference
    http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=12528).

2008-11-10  6.4.6-0 Cristy  <quetzlzacatenango <at> image...>
  * Fix temporary file leak.