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	Changes in TIFF v3.7.2

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Current Version: v3.7.2

Previous Version: v3.7.1

Master FTP Site: 

ftp.remotesensing.org, directory pub/libtiff

Master HTTP Site: 

http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff 

This document describes the changes made to the software between the

previous and current versions (see above).

If you don't find something listed here, then it was not done in this

timeframe, or it was not considered important enough to be mentioned.

The following information is located here:

Major Changes

Changes in the software configuration

Changes in libtiff

Changes in the tools

Changes in the contrib area

<font size="+3">M</font>AJOR CHANGES:

	
 Maintainance release. Many bugfixes in the build environment

	and compatibility improvements.

<font size="+3">C</font>HANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:

	
 configure.ac: Use -rpath option instead of -R as per bug

		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732

	
 tif_stream.cxx: Fixes for C++ stream interface from

	Michael Rinne and Edward Lam.

	
 configure.ac: Make the documentation directory location

	configurable via the --with-docdir option (as suggested by

	Jeremy C. Reed).

	
 Place the C++ stream API in the separate library called

	libtiffxx to avoid unneeded dependencies. Probably there will be

	more C++ API in the future. As per bugs

		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733

	and 

		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730

	
 configure, configure.ac: Replace --disable-c++ with the

	--disable-cxx option as	per bug

		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730.

<font size="+3">C</font>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:

	
 Applied patch from Lee Howard to support a new tag TIFFTAG_FAXDCS

	(34911) used in HylaFax software. As per bug

		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771

	
 tif_open.c: Remove unnesessary TIFFSeekFile() call as per

	bug 

		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756

	
 tiff.h: Changed the int8 definition to be always signed char

	as per bug

		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727

	
 tiffio.h: Move TIFFOpenW() function into the extern "C"{}

	block as per bug

		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763

	
 tif_dirread.c: Estimate strip size in case of wrong or

	suspicious values in the tags. As per bugs

		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=705

	and 

		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320

	
 tif_color.c: Use double as the second argument of pow()

	function in TIFFCIELabToRGBInit(). As per bug

		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741

	
 tif_pixarlog.c: Avoid warnings when converting float to

	integer as per bug

		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=740

	
 tif_getimage.c: Always fill the error message buffer in

	TIFFRGBAImageBegin() as per bug

		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739

	
 tif_jpeg.c: Added ability to read/write the fax specific

	TIFFTAG_FAXRECVPARAMS, TIFFTAG_FAXSUBADDRESS and TIFFTAG_FAXRECVTIME

	tags as per bug

		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736

	
 tif_win32.c: Fixed message formatting in functions

	Win32WarningHandler() and Win32ErrorHandler() as per bug

		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735

	
 tiffio.h: Move the color conversion routines in the 'extern

	"C"' section as per bug

		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727

	
 tiff.h: Restore back the workaround for AIX Visual Age C

	compiler to avoid double definition of BSD types as per bug

		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39

	
 tif_getimage.c: More fixes for multiple-alpha-channelled

	RGB-images as per bug

	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713

<font size="+3">C</font>HANGES IN THE TOOLS:

	
 tiffcmp.c: Added ability to compare the 32-bit integer and

	floating point data; complain on unsupported bit depths.

	
 tiffcmp.c: Use properly sized buffer in short arrays comparison

	as per bug

		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785

	
 fax2ps.c: Replace insecure mktemp() function with the

	tmpfile() as per bug

		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786

	
 tiffgt.c: Fix problem on big-endian CPUs so that images

	display more correctly.  Images display brighter than they should

	on a Sun workstation.

	
 tiff2ps.c: Fixed problem with page sizes as per bug

		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742

	
 tiff2ps.c: Interpret the -w and -h options independently. As

	per bug

		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=689

	
 tiffdump.c: Fixed problem when read broken TIFFs with the

	wrong tag counts (Dmitry V. Levin, Martin Pitt).

	
 tiffset.c: Convert character option to integer value as per

	bug 

	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725.

<font size="+3">C</font>HANGES IN THE CONTRIB AREA:

	
 No changes.

Last updated $Date: 2005/03/15 15:17:44 $.